Re: [Loadstone] Bluetooth Receiver Question

[Dick Wamser]

Hello all: well, good news on battery life. iOS11 shall be very easy on 
batteries. I’ve in the 11 Beta program. And, if you start out with a full or 
nearly full charge, Loadstone can chatter like a monkey for at least two hours 
straight with at least fifty per cent of battery life left.
Dick, Donna and Oboe. (OR911)


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> On Sep 7, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Shawn Kirkpatrick  
> wrote:
> 
> You can use a bluetooth receiver with Loadstone but it has to be one 
> compatible with the iPhone. This is a restriction imposed by the iPhone, not 
> Loadstone itself. There are a few of these receivers out there I think but I 
> have no experience with them. As far as I know if you have one of these you 
> just connect it and any program that would use the internal GPS would use the 
> receiver instead.
> 
>> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Mike Hanson wrote:
>> 
>> The one drawback of using any GPS program I know about with an IPhone
>> is that it drains the battery.  I don’t blame Loadstone for that.  It
>> seems to use about the same amount of battery life as any other GPS
>> program I’ve used.  I don’t know if the IPhone’s GPS receiver drains
>> battery life or the app does.
>> 
>> Would configuring Loadstone to use a Bluetooth receiver reduce the
>> demand on the IPhone’s battery?  There might well be some reason
>> Loadstone doesn’t support a Bluetooth receiver with an IPhone.  I am
>> not sure anybody makes Bluetooth GPS receivers these days.  There are
>> other workarounds to deal with battery life issues.  I thought I would
>> ask if there are plans to implement use of Bluetooth receivers.  The
>> IPhone's built-in receiver seems as accurate as one could want.  It is
>> certainly better than early Royltec receivers in my experience.
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Hanson
>> 
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Re: [Loadstone] Bluetooth Receiver Question

[Shawn Kirkpatrick]

You can use a bluetooth receiver with Loadstone but it has to be one 
compatible with the iPhone. This is a restriction imposed by the iPhone, not 
Loadstone itself. There are a few of these receivers out there I think but I 
have no experience with them. As far as I know if you have one of these you 
just connect it and any program that would use the internal GPS would use 
the receiver instead.


On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Mike Hanson wrote:


The one drawback of using any GPS program I know about with an IPhone
is that it drains the battery.  I don’t blame Loadstone for that.  It
seems to use about the same amount of battery life as any other GPS
program I’ve used.  I don’t know if the IPhone’s GPS receiver drains
battery life or the app does.

Would configuring Loadstone to use a Bluetooth receiver reduce the
demand on the IPhone’s battery?  There might well be some reason
Loadstone doesn’t support a Bluetooth receiver with an IPhone.  I am
not sure anybody makes Bluetooth GPS receivers these days.  There are
other workarounds to deal with battery life issues.  I thought I would
ask if there are plans to implement use of Bluetooth receivers.  The
IPhone's built-in receiver seems as accurate as one could want.  It is
certainly better than early Royltec receivers in my experience.


Mike Hanson

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[Loadstone] Bluetooth Receiver Question

[Mike Hanson]

The one drawback of using any GPS program I know about with an IPhone
is that it drains the battery.  I don’t blame Loadstone for that.  It
seems to use about the same amount of battery life as any other GPS
program I’ve used.  I don’t know if the IPhone’s GPS receiver drains
battery life or the app does.

Would configuring Loadstone to use a Bluetooth receiver reduce the
demand on the IPhone’s battery?  There might well be some reason
Loadstone doesn’t support a Bluetooth receiver with an IPhone.  I am
not sure anybody makes Bluetooth GPS receivers these days.  There are
other workarounds to deal with battery life issues.  I thought I would
ask if there are plans to implement use of Bluetooth receivers.  The
IPhone's built-in receiver seems as accurate as one could want.  It is
certainly better than early Royltec receivers in my experience.


Mike Hanson

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