Bug 89924

Summary: make MM_LOCATION_GPS_REFRESH_TIME_SECS configurable
Product: ModemManager Reporter: Fabrice Bellet <fabrice>
Component: generalAssignee: Aleksander Morgado <aleksander>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: freedesktop-devel
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: Added new API method to request GPS refresh rate update
Description of the option in the man page

Description Fabrice Bellet 2015-04-06 19:48:40 UTC 
Some applications like gnome-maps, may have an interest in a location update from GPS more frequent than every 30 seconds. Most devices can update their location every second. Ideally this interval should be configurable.

For example geoclue has the possibility to upload wifi neighbouring ESSID and 3GPP data to mozilla geolocation service, when a GPS fix is available (with the hope that GPS coordinates can improve the location accuracy of these wifi/3GPP data). Such case would benefit from a more frequent interaction with ModemManager, so the Wifi/3GPP/NMEA GPS data stay *in sync* as much as possible, when the user is moving around.
Comment 1 Aleksander Morgado 2015-12-07 13:33:58 UTC 
Created attachment 120388 [details] [review]
Added new API method to request GPS refresh rate update

Hey Fabrice, could you test the attached patch on top of ModemManager git master?
Comment 2 Aleksander Morgado 2015-12-07 13:36:16 UTC 
With the patch on, you could do for example:
$ mmcli -m 0 --location-set-gps-refresh-rate=5
Comment 3 Fabrice Bellet 2015-12-10 21:26:04 UTC 
Hi Aleksander, I just tested the patch, and it works for me. Thanks!
Comment 4 Aleksander Morgado 2015-12-21 16:49:18 UTC 
This was merged to git master and will be available in the next major release.
Comment 5 Valentin Blot 2017-07-30 22:46:11 UTC 
The new option for mmcli should be documented in the man page.
Comment 6 Valentin Blot 2017-07-30 22:46:48 UTC 
Created attachment 133138 [details] [review]
Description of the option in the man page
Comment 7 Aleksander Morgado 2017-07-31 06:31:08 UTC 
(In reply to Valentin Blot from comment #6)
> Created attachment 133138 [details] [review] [review]
> Description of the option in the man page

Pushed to git master and mm-1-6, thanks.

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