GPS blocked by enable

[matthew stanger]

Thanks, I'll send something up when I get around to it.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Aleksander Morgado <
aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:04 PM, matthew stanger <stangerm2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I was just wondering if I could get the background on why the GPS flow
> > requires enable. It's causing us pain with unit's that don't have a SIM
> > inserted but which would still want to collect GPS data. Since we can't
> > enable without a SIM, then we can't get GPS. I'm sure I can hack
> something
> > together but I thought there's probably a good reason and that my effect
> how
> > I try and solve the problem so I was just trying to understand the
> context
> > before diving into this.
>
> I don't think there's any technical reason behind this; we can try to
> support it.
>
> We would need to allow the location interface to be exposed in DBus
> even on Failed state (i.e. without SIM) and then allow GPS enabling
> actions even in that case.
>
> --
> Aleksander
> https://aleksander.es
>
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