Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
SHR already does both (GSM and GPS). You should set the local timezone - http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Tweaks#Timezone On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Esben Stien wrote: > Any way to extract the time from the GSM network and have the time set > based on this?. > > Any distro that does thi

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-02-10 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On 2/11/10, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > GNUtoo writes: > > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 01:12 +, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > > Flow - good but pricy, and unless I am looking at the design wrong, > > > there is only one adapter/interface socket so you can have a phone, or a > > > GSM device,

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

2010-05-03 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > Hi there! > > does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based > positioning services.. > How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? > > Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base st

Re: JS TrojanDownloader on opkg.org?

2010-05-12 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Thomas Franck wrote: > Hi.. > > I was just going to have a look at something on opkg.org when my NOD32 > came up with this warning (work PC ;) ): > -8< > 12.05.2010 11:50:48     HTTP filter     file    http://www.opkg.org/ > JS/TrojanDownloader.

Re: Another open hardware mod experiment: RFID-tag/Reader board for the Freerunner, Nanonote (?) and Beagleboard

2011-04-11 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
There's an app for Android that reads MIFARE 13.56MHz transit cards: https://github.com/codebutler/farebot The author would like to see eventually emulating such cards: http://codebutler.com/announcing-farebot-for-android I would definitely be interested in a board if it was proven it could read or

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-21 Thread Alex &quot;Maxious&quot; Sadleir
There's vector (EPS format?) logos and the conditions for using them on the wiki; http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Trademark_Policy Note that for most community purposes (creating software or community webpages) the artwork is free to use but explicit permission is required for several cases includin

Re: Calling all Australian OpenMoko Geeks! PLEASE READ!

2008-07-23 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
For those like me who were baffled how to actually join: Send a **plain-text** message containing "subscribe oz-users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you get instructions back. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Wilkinson, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are trying to create an Oz OpenMoko communit

Re: [Cellhunter] no offline log any more

2009-03-19 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Something I realised on Debian/fyp was that in /usr/bin/cellhunter.py home is set to "/home/root" but on fyp root's home is just "/root". Cellhunter 0.4.2 *did not* present an error message when it tried to write the offline log to a non-existant path, it just silently failed. So this should defina

Re: Command-line Yaouh! clone

2009-04-23 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Yoann ARNAUD wrote: > Risto H. Kurppa a écrit : > > > So 300MB of tiles with 30% updated it would generate (5+10*30)*300 kB > > = 89MB or so.. ok.. I wonder if it's ok for OSM people if people start > > doing it like this a lot more than they now do. > > This has

Re: Power dongle

2009-06-07 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
There's quite a few USB power sources (marketed as Emergency Phone Chargers) around including some that run off normal batteries. I can get one of those at any supermarket around here. They'll last longer than 15 seconds too. There's also the option of making your own with a 9v battery, a diode, a

Re: OpenBmap

2009-06-09 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > > > - I already discussed with Onen (#openmoko-cdevel) some issues in the > client app (= I have no idea what all the numbers mean and OTOH it'd > be nice to have it work as a daemon eating as little resources as > possible, OTOH it'd be n

Re: OpenBmap

2009-06-10 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Onen wrote: > > > The logs should not be lost. They just have not been detected, and > processed by the (broken) server. Tweet is triggered when logs are > detected. Yep! They've shown up today just as expected. > > > Does it say > > anywhere what the delay/pr

Re: WiFi doesn't work

2008-09-11 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
The solution is absurdly simple. Use udhcpc not dhclient. Both are installed on 2008.8, only udhcpc does the right thing. For example... Dhclient: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dhclient eth0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For

Re: [ASU] Is git available for freerunner

2008-09-22 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
If you add the angstrom respository, you can have both. See http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Users_Repositories#Angstrom_Repository for details On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Geoff Ruscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need I say more? > > Oh what about svn? > > __

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Onen wrote: > > You can now browse and zoom to an area, and see (depending on the level > of zoom), LACs and cells. > > When you select one item, you can click on it to see the coverage of the > item. Wow! This is very useful for planning cell id collection trip

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > > is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the > license is compatible? it would be great to get existing cells > rendered on an alternative tile set, cache them for viewing in > tangogps and see where the blank spot

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Onen wrote: > Hi, > > If we could get all the average points for a network/country/region as > > KML, it wouldn't be too hard to convert them into tangogps POIs > > (although then you'd have alot of POIs). > > > > What would be the purpose of displaying the averag

Re: Where are the archives of the list?

2009-07-26 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:06 PM, wrote: > I realize that many of my answers can be dug out from old messages, but I > haven't been able to find a link like: > "Type something here and search ALL messages" > Is there one? > I hate being a pest... :( > Than

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-26 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Onen wrote: > Onen wrote: > > Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > >> > >> I've tried using the API page at > >> http://realtimeblog.free.fr/api/getGPSfromGSM.html but it never returns > >> useful results for me even w

Re: Is your GPS working today?

2009-07-26 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 21:15, The Digital > Pioneer wrote: > > Nope, my GPS is dead in SHR-U. I've upgraded since it last worked, but no > > go. > > > > I've got an error in dmesg, the same as Vikas'. > > > > Vikas: You know, the

Re: [openBmap] GSM/GPS logger 0.4.0 is out! (Legal status)

2009-07-29 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 28 Jul 2009, at 11:35, Patryk Benderz wrote: >> ... >> Hi, did you considered legal side of this work? I mean, do GSM >> operators >> in all countries allow us to collect these data? > > The data is publicly observable, so I don't see how they

Re: [openBmap] GSM/GPS logger 0.4.0 is out! (Legal status)

2009-07-29 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Onen wrote: > Alex, could you be more specific, I am not sure to understand what you > have in mind? Are you wondering if we could log cells from other > operators with only one phone? > Exactly. I don't know alot about GSM. On one hand, you can see the other networ

Re: [Shr-Devel] I'd like to add some packages to the feeds

2009-09-03 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: > On 9/3/09, Martin Jansa wrote: >> When talking about gps utils, what about good old agpsui? I liked it for >> testing purposes and options like cold reset, warm reset etc. Probably >> new options like drop fso-agps data (as in shr-se

Re: cellhunter - openbmap - opencellid revisited... (was Re: CellHunter is moving to a new server)

2009-09-06 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > > Ok, downloaded the cellhunter database, this is what it stores: > > provider        cell_mcc        cell_mnc        cell_la cell_id cell_arfcn     >  signal  gps_time        gps_lat gps_long        gps_alt gname   local_time   >    cell_

Re: cellhunter - openbmap - opencellid revisited... (was Re: CellHunter is moving to a new server)

2009-09-06 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir > wrote: >> I looked at "common api to submit cells" and found that the openmoko >> OBM logger app was missing *one* field (arfcn) that cellhunter api >

Re: Wireless Signal Power Levels...

2009-09-09 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:16 AM, John Dowd wrote: > > My question is: is the signal level really a problem and is there a simple > configuration setting that I can use to try and fix it? > > Cheers!! There's two things you can do to increase this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wifi#Anecdotal_sol

Re: Freerunner in real world

2009-09-15 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Cry wrote: >> Does anyone have a solution for this?  I can't see the screen on my >> freerunner when I am in sunshine.  It is completely washed out. > > Did you tried paroli? It has a black&white design for

Re: [SHR-U] Get imei number without sim card

2009-09-29 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Mickael Labrousse wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'ld like to get, with a command line, the IMEI number of my Freerunner > (running SHR-U). But I don't have a sim card in it, so is it possible to > talk to gsmd ? You can enter the AT command "AT+CGSN" using mickeyterm on

Re: Increasing GPS accuracy with EGNOS

2009-10-07 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Al Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2009, Erik Lundin wrote: >> Good news, indeed. Does the Neo FreeRunner support EGNOS signals? Both >> the hardware and software? > > http://www.u-blox.com/en/download-center.html?task=view.download&cid=83 > > According to thi

Re: Tips when GSM doesn't work

2009-10-12 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
2009/10/13 Cristian Gómez : > I'm using my FR (with SHR - last) as main phone. I experienced sometimes > that when I start SHR, GSM functions doesn't start > I don't know how can I check any log or how can I start manually GSM > services, I type /etc/init.d/frameworkd restart, but I don't know if i

Re: Off Topic (was: Re: WikiReader)

2009-10-15 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Niels Heyvaert wrote: > >         > >         > >         > >        <1255620003.18333.51.ca...@opal> > > >   > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >                                  

Ericsson releases "free" cell-id lookup API

2009-10-21 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/documentation/cell-id-look-up-api Limited to 100 requests per day. Perhaps I'm getting the syntax wrong (made sure to use hex like their example does) but when I tried to compare it to cells in the openmoko cellid databases, I got back "404 - The requ

Re: Ericsson releases "free" cell-id lookup API

2009-10-22 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
2009/10/23 Onen : > Baruch Even wrote: >> Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: >>> https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/documentation/cell-id-look-up-api >>> >>> Limited to 100 requests per day. Perhaps I'm getting the syntax wrong >>> (made s

openBmap-locator (was Re: Ericsson releases "free" cell-id lookup API)

2009-10-23 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
2009/10/23 Baruch Even : > Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: >> 2009/10/23 Onen : >>> Baruch Even wrote: >>>> Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: >> >>> As Baruch said, you must be online, and I add you must send your GSM >>> data (and as such your posi

Re: Ericsson releases "free" cell-id lookup API

2009-11-03 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
2009/11/3 jeanmatthew : > >> Is it very much different than the Google location API? >>Definately - It only gives you 1 cell position (latitude/longitude, is >>this the position of the cell tower?), a locality name and an accuracy >>measure in meters per API call. This is unlike the Google API wher