On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Sven Arvidsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there,
Hi Sven, > I'm curious about the support for Bluetooth GPS in the new Geoclue. At > the moment I can pair my GPS in GNOME, but it immediately disconnects, > and does not seem to be used by Geoclue at all? At least at the moment we don't have support for standalone (USB and bluetooth) GPS devices. I had a long discussion about this with the last maintainer of geoclue1, Bastien Nocera. He informed me that main issue with these devices is that they are not plug-n-play and we'd need user intervention to set them up and geoclue is aimed for simplicity. Having said that, I won't be against anyone attempting to add this support. You might find this recent discussion interesting if you want to utilize your phone's GPS: https://plus.google.com/+ZeeshanAli/posts/VTRtRNcrayc > My laptop also have a built-in GPS. An Ericsson H5321 gw, but this > doesn't seem to be picked up by Geoclue. At least the location in GNOME > Maps seems to be based of WiFI. > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ericsson_H5321_gw_Mobile_Broadband_Module This is likely because support for this is either not present or not complete in ModemManager. Please file a bug on ModemManager about this. > Is there a way to see what sources for location is picked up by Geoclue? You can run geoclue manually with debug enabled (export G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=Geoclue) and it'll tell you everything its doing. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
