Home Base

Home Base is TixTrk's way of knowing where you live. Once set, it allows the app to tell the difference between a local show you can drive to and an out-of-town trip that requires a hotel and flights, which changes what you see on the Dashboard.

Setting Your Home City

On the web Web

In the Home Base section of Settings, start typing your city into the search field. TixTrk uses Google Places autocomplete, so you can enter a city name, neighborhood, or full address and select the correct result from the dropdown. Click Save in that section to store it.

On iPhone iOS

Settings has a Home City field you type directly, in City, State form. There is no autocomplete on iOS, so enter the city as you would write it.

Local Radius

Set on the web only Web

The local radius defines how far from your home city a concert can be before TixTrk considers it a trip rather than a local show. It is the Local Radius (miles) field in the Home Base section of Settings, and the default is 50 miles. Increase it if you regularly attend shows in nearby cities, or decrease it if you want TixTrk to treat anything outside your immediate area as a trip. Remember to click Save.

iOS does not have this control

The local radius can only be set on the web app. The iOS app reads and honors whatever value you saved there, but has no field to change it.

Do not confuse it with Nearby Radius, which iOS does have in Settings. That is a different setting with a different job: it controls how far out the iPhone app's Nearby Tonight card looks for events happening today, and it does not affect local-versus-trip logic at all.

How Home Base Affects the Dashboard

Setting a Home Base changes two types of Dashboard alerts:

• Local shows: concerts within your radius will not trigger a "link to trip" reminder. TixTrk assumes you don't need a trip plan for shows you can easily reach from home.
• Local trips: if a trip's venue falls within your radius, TixTrk will not flag it for missing hotel or flight bookings.
• Flight suggestions use the same radius to decide whether a trip offers to search for flights. A trip inside it will not suggest flying, though you can still open the search yourself from the add menu. See Finding Flights.

For concerts outside your radius, the normal logistics alerts apply: if a trip is coming up and has no hotel or flight attached, the Dashboard will warn you.

TIP

Set up Home Base before you start adding concerts. The Dashboard alerts are most useful when TixTrk already knows which shows are local and which ones require travel planning.