A profile with “speed above 10 km/h” will kick in when the last 5 points average speed is above 10 km/h. The notification banner and dashboard will tell you if the profile is actually active.

If your interval for that profile is 5s, a new point will be requested every 5 seconds and with a 10m movement threshold every point closer than 10m to the last recorded point gets discarded.

So to get smoother tracks you can decrease the movement threshold. Personally I use a movement threshold of 2m with a tracking interval of 6 seconds which works very well for me.

Logging points every 10m without a time interval is not possible, because the app needs a location to determine you moved 10m and Android needs an interval. A workaround would be to decrease the interval to something like 3 sec and set the movement threshold to 10m. Then the app will request a new location every 3 seconds and checks if it is at least 10m apart from the last point. If it is it will be recorded, otherwise it will be discarded. That will use a lot more battery though.

You can read more about the tracking profiles in the docs: https://colota.app/docs/guides/tracking-profiles

For places where you stay frequently (home, work, etc.) geofences work better. The stationary profile is good for situations where you are somewhere temporarily for longer (restaurant, friends, etc.)

Edit: Small correction after doing the math and reformatting after writing that on the phone 😂

Lowering the movement threshold will not smooth out a driving track. 10m at a 5s interval works out to 7.2 km/h, so above that speed every fix is already more than 10m from the last one and the threshold throws nothing away. So the tracking interval is your lever here. 5s at 50 km/h is a point roughly every 70m and even at a realistic average of 30 km/h it is still one every 40m, which is what cuts the corners.

Out of the box Colota records every fix it gets by the device. So in case you haven’t already I would suggest to enable the accuracy filter and set it e.g. to 25m. This way all points with accuracy worse than 25m get filtered out. Also the movement threshold helps with the stationary drift

Colota dev here 👋 What do you want the profiles to do?

Profiles are an optional thing to finetune your tracking settings based on certain conditions, e.g. speed above or below x km/h, phone charging, Android Auto connected or being stationary. So you could raise the interval while charging, since that usually means you are not moving. To start with you could also make a pause zone at home and at work and turn on the WiFi pause. GPS stops completely while you are there and the app will consume much less battery. Tracking resumes when the WiFi drops.

I would add one at a time and see if it behaves like you want. When you create like 10 different tracking profiles with different priorities they can interfere with each other, so less is often more.

Edit: Also the accuracy filter is off by default so you probably want to enable it to reduce the noise