automatic APN selection

[matthew stanger]

Tim & Belisko,

My team still has a feature like this on our product road map. Right now
we've been waiting for the next FW release, which has as part of our
analytics suite, the ability to gather basic APN & context info(& we have
presence in ~55+ countries). We plan on cross referencing this against the
AOSP, to build a hint type dbus helper, that given an MCC/MNC could provide
a small focused selection of cell config's to the user to choice from. If
you wanted to do auto from there it'd be pretty simple I think. Our team is
pretty small and moves slowly though, and I don't think we'll get to this
until next quarter. I have no reason we couldn't share it as an OS project.

Cheers

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM Tim Small <tim at seoss.co.uk> wrote:

> On 11/02/2019 14:38, Belisko Marek wrote:
>
> > I'm working on embedded system which will have internet connection over
> > GSM. I can setup connection manually. My point is to have everything
> > automatically set (so no user intervention).
> > So question is if MondeManager support kind of automatic getting
> > provider details from some database (like ofono is using
> > mobile-broadband database) to have connection working out of the box.
>
> I have considered writing a standalone program to automatically define
> new NetworkManager connections if necessary, using one (or more) of the
> public databases (e.g. the one from the Android Open Source Project).
>
> This should cover most cases, and would be opt-in (or perhaps it could
> blacklist SIM ids which shouldn't autoconfig - maybe some of the public
> databases already have such info, I haven't checked).
>
> It should be possible to interact with MM and NM purely using dbus.
>
> Let me know if you'd be interesting in sharing development effort...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
>
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