Status update 2020-06-15

[wibble]

We're not using gpsd, ModemManager is in charge here.
The plan is to hook up to the system settings through d-bus and forward commands to ModemManager as needed.

I hadn't realised ModemManager included that capability - will have to look into it. In trying it without a SIM i ran into #163 when trying to send:

Code:

mmcli -m 0 --command='AT+QGPS=1'

I guess that fix will make its way into the release version in due course. And #183 will need a similar patch in the location interface.


Is there a plan to support apps like foxtrotgps and navit that use gpsd? IIRC FSO solved a similar issue (gpsd vs gypsy) with a daemon to translate from one to the other. Is there any coordination between the different OS flavours as to how location APIs should be standardized?