Time Machine shows one tracker, on one day, drawn on the map — with the day's totals beside it. It's the view to open when you want to see what happened rather than read a list of it.
Applies to: the Hapn web app at app.gethapn.com and the Hapn mobile app.
How to open it
Time Machine is no longer a menu item of its own — you reach it from a tracker. Two routes, both ending in the same place:
On the mobile app
On the Live screen, tap the tracker, then tap History on its card. Time Machine opens on that tracker; use the arrows either side of the date to change day, and the close button at the top right of the panel to go back. Trackers that generate trips show the daily summary with Trips and Timeline tabs. Battery trackers, and any tracker with trip generation switched off, open straight on the Timeline tab with the Locations filter selected, listing every position they reported. You can also tap the History button at the top of the map while you're following a tracker.
From the Live Map on the web (quickest)
- Select the asset in the list to enter follow mode.
- In the bar at the bottom of the map, select History. Time Machine opens on the day the tracker last reported.
The route-icon Trips button in the same bar opens the tracker's Trips list instead of the map.
From Trips on the web
- Go to Historical Tracking → Trips.
- Choose the tracker from the picker at the top left.
- Select Replay on map.
If you're looking for app.gethapn.com/history or a calendar icon in the sidebar, they're gone — history now lives under Historical Tracking, and per-tracker history hangs off the tracker itself.
Moving between days
Time Machine works a day at a time. Use the date stepper at the top right — the arrows either side of the date move you back and forward a day — or the same control in the bar at the bottom of the map. The panel reminds you: use the date controls to change days.
VIEWING · Live at the top right takes you back to the tracker's current position.
The daily summary
The left panel is the part most people come for. For the day you're looking at, it gives:
- Distance and Trips
- Places visited and Stops
- Max speed and Alerts
- Active hours and Idle time
- A Utilization bar — "35% active" — putting active time against the length of the day
A line above it tells you the window the tracker actually reported in ("Reported 11:00 AM – 4:20 PM"), which is the honest bound on everything below it. Under the tiles, N alerts in this window opens what fired.
Idle time next to active hours is the quiet one worth watching: a vehicle with three active hours and two and a half idle is telling you something about how the day was spent.
Trips and Timeline
Two tabs change what's drawn on the map.
- Trips draws the day as connected routes — the journeys, joined up.
- Timeline draws the individual pings — every position the tracker reported, as separate points. Use it when you need to know exactly when and where something reported, rather than the shape of the journey.
Timeline is also what you get when trips don't exist at all — see below.
Opening a single trip
Select a trip — in the Trips tab, or from the Trips page — and Time Machine switches to that trip: its route on the map, a replay bar at the bottom, and in the panel:
- The trip's start and end addresses and times, and how many alerts fired during it.
- Two quick actions: directions to where the trip ended, and copy the trip's summary.
- Raw GPS points — the number of position reports in the trip. Select it to drill in to every point, earliest first, with the time, address, and whether the vehicle was stopped or moving and how fast. Select a point to see it on the map; Back to trip returns you.
- Detailed facts — distance, duration and idle time; max, average moving and average overall speed; fuel used where the tracker reports it; and harsh acceleration, braking, cornering and speeding counts.
A breadcrumb at the top of the panel (for example Back to trips) takes you back to where you came from.
Battery trackers show Pings, not Trips
On a battery-powered tracker reporting once a minute or slower, Hapn doesn't generate trips. The reports are too far apart to draw a journey between them.
On the web, these trackers also have their own history page — Historical Tracking → Locations — listing every check-in with the address, battery level and any alerts; see the Locations page. On those trackers, Time Machine on the web opens straight on the list of positions, with All, Alerts and Pings filters and Pings selected. There is no Trips tab and no distance or trip totals; the daily summary gives the window the tracker reported in. On the mobile app the same list is called Locations. The panel also swaps the vehicle tiles for battery percentage, an estimated days remaining figure, and the update frequency.
This is expected, not a fault. You still have every position the tracker sent — as pings rather than trips. To get trips from that asset it needs a faster reporting mode, at a cost in battery life: see Reporting Modes: How to Adjust Your Tracker's Update Frequency.
Chart: fuel, idle time and utilization
Chart in the bottom bar opens a strip above the map with three metrics for the day you're viewing. Select one to switch:
- Fuel — a real graph of fuel level across the day, with time along the bottom and percentage up the side, and the latest reading at the top right. This is the one worth opening: a line that steps down sharply while the vehicle wasn't moving is the shape of a fuel-theft problem, and it's much easier to see here than in a report.
- Idle time — the day's total, e.g. 2.6h.
- Utilization — the day's percentage, e.g. 35% active.
Idle time and Utilization are each worked out once a day, so they show a single figure and say one reading in this window rather than drawing a curve. Fuel is sampled continuously, so only Fuel plots as a graph.
The × at the top right of the strip closes it.
On a battery-powered asset tracker there's no fuel to plot, so Chart opens on Battery — the tracker's battery percentage — instead.
The rest of the bottom bar
Alongside Chart, the bar offers Trips (back to the list view for this tracker), Live (return to the tracker's current position), Share Live and Settings.
When to use something else
- The whole fleet's day, not one vehicle's — use the Trips page.
- Stops, arrival and departure times, time on site — the tracker's Trips list shows these as rows with "Arrived … · left …" and a Save as place button.
- Numbers over a period, or a file — use Reports, or Export CSV from the tracker's Trips view. See Getting Your Data Out of Hapn.
If a day looks empty
Before assuming data is missing, check the obvious three: the tracker was powered and in coverage that day; you're on the right date; and — if it's a battery tracker — that you're looking at Pings, not expecting trips. Full list in Troubleshooting: Why Can't I See My Tracker's Location History?
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