On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 16:38 +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > 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.
Yes, it would be nice to have an easy way to set up Bluetooth GPS devices in GNOME, but I can understand that it makes sense to focus on other things first. > You might find this recent discussion interesting if you want to > utilize your phone's GPS: > > https://plus.google.com/+ZeeshanAli/posts/VTRtRNcrayc Very interesting! Never heard of that before. > > 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. I will poke around and file a bug with ModemManager if that's the case. Thanks for your quick reply! -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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