Proposal: Location hackfest

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue Jun 24 05:48:29 PDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 13:05 +1000, Aaron McCarthy wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 00:00:19 Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> > I had a bit of chat with ofono guys. They told me that ofono does
> > indeed have GPS "API" but its raw NMEA sentences fed through some fds
> > rather than directly on the D-Bus interface.
> > 
> > I think I'll add an ofono backend soon and would hope that that is all
> > I need (apart from missing API you mentioned) to do to make geoclue2
> > work for your platform. :)
> 
> Support in the ofono modem driver will also need to be implemented. In my 
> ofono checkout (from mer version mer/1.14+git32), only the mbmmodem and 
> qmimodem drivers have location reporting support. Jolla uses rilmodem.

Are the rilmodem plugin's sources available somewhere? I'd be interested
in writing a ModemManager plugin that used RIL.



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