automatic APN selection

[Belisko Marek]

Hi Matthew,

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:09 PM matthew stanger <stangerm2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
Than would be perfect. We can build on top of that really nice solution
which can be used and I think a lot of companies doing it on it's own
somehow so why not to have nice, solid stable solution ;). Can you pls
share sources somewhere? Thanks a lot.

>
> Cheers
>

BR,

marek

>
> 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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