I need to force an unique visit in Piwik under a certain condition. I saw this post stating you can do this by changing the visitorId and changing the user’s resolution.
http://forum.piwik.org/read.php?2,84499,84499
I tried this code:
$piwikTracker->setResolution(rand(0,9999),rand(0,9999));
$piwikTracker->setVisitorId(substr(md5(uniqid()),0,16));
but it’s not working. Is there validation on screen resolution sizes, or the truncated md5 is not a valid visitorId?
The post mentioned setting resolution as false. I tried that but could not generate an unique visit. I used the random numbers thinking false, false would equate to a constant 0,0 user resolution.
I did test changing the user’s IP. This did generate a unique visit, so I know my token_auth is setup correctly. I can’t use this as I want to keep those metrics along with browser.