Proposal: Location hackfest

[Aaron McCarthy]

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:48:29 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

The Nemo mobile sources for ofono are at https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/ofono

Cheers,

-- 
Aaron McCarthy