This is strange. Prey seems to be re-registering your device and assigning new device keys. Did you by any chance delete the device from the control panel? if not can you verify the 'device_key' entry in the following file with that in the control panel(it should be 6w1wi1, as per above log)
/opt/prey/config

I guess I have it installed the alarm works but very delayed almost 10 minutes after, alert isn't working but the location reports are working but 3 are little off, and 1 is exact.

prey checks periodically(default 10min) the control panel for any status change. so alarm 10 min delayed is fine.
is location off by few meters or kilometers? geo location is obtained from the backend, so not much can be done there.

can you post the log with only alert module enabled? you can also run the following command from terminal and see if a dialog pops up
/opt/prey/bin/qDialog "some text"

0.4 Miles = 0.64360 Kilometers from the lastest and their all different from expect 1 thats correct
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i ran the command and the dialog popped up


### PREY 0.5.3 spreads its wings!
### Linux RM696 2.6.32.54-dfl61-20121301 #1 PREEMPT Mon Apr 2 14:14:32 EEST 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux

Mon Dec 17 22:20:59 EST 2012

-- Looking for connection...
-- Got network connection!
-- Checking URL...
++ Got encrypted response! Processing...

>> Verifying status...

-- Got status code 404!
-- HOLY GUACAMOLE!!
-- Running active report modules...

>> Sending report!

-- Packing all gathered traces...
-- No data to send. It seems you didn't activate any report modules. Skipping...

-- Done! Happy hunting!
-- Cleaning up!

does the location variation given by prey match with that given by nokia maps? if so, there is nothing much that can be done. 0.5 mile variation is to be expected from GPS, especially if u r inside a building

it seems u forgot to enable the alert message in the control panel. prey client got no instruction to show it(no alert module related stuff in the log)

Ah right forgot me being inside would mess with the gps , and yes the alert message was active

here is my log from having webcam and alert active


### PREY 0.5.3 spreads its wings!
### Linux RM696 2.6.32.54-dfl61-20121301 #1 PREEMPT Mon Apr 2 14:14:32 EEST 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux

Tue Dec 18 19:31:01 EST 2012

-- Looking for connection...
-- Got network connection!
-- Checking URL...
++ Got encrypted response! Processing...

>> Verifying status...

-- Got status code 404!
-- HOLY GUACAMOLE!!
-- Running active report modules...

>> Sending report!

-- Packing all gathered traces...
-- No data to send. It seems you didn't activate any report modules. Skipping...

-- Done! Happy hunting!
-- Cleaning up!

are you sure the properties of right device is being set from the control panel. If a module is enabled, similar entry to below should be present in the log file
-- Got instructions for webcam module
it was present in your first log. but not present in the last few logs. are you removing some lines from the log file while posting?
may be we can take this to PM, to avoid cluttering this thread

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Sorryp but its a forum bug, and no one fixed it for a long tine

Ok, I'm probably the only one who hasn't got the skills to install this thing. I have meeprey_0.0.3_armel.deb, but I don't know how to install all those depencies. I have enabled Developer Mode and I know about Terminal, devel-su and rootme. I'm not a complete idiot; I know my way around computers, but Linux is still a bit new (even though I have Lubuntu installed on an old PC of mine).

Now how do I install all the other stuff? (Or am I better of waiting for it to hit the app store?)

Yeshua follow this post

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=12