[ANNOUNCE] locationd - generate location-based alerts
Hi,
I've been working on an application that can generate alerts based on your current location. In its current state, it will generate dbus signals when a user-defined point of interest is nearby. I'm now learning how to create a desktop widget that can watch the dbus notifications and do something useful with them, but even as it is, it can still find interesting use, perhaps with dbus-scripts. The code is in python, and requires the python-location library installed. Grab the .deb from https://bitbucket.org/kushal_kumaran...iond/downloads, or clone the repository to take a look at the source. Some notes on usage are in the wiki at https://bitbucket.org/kushal_kumaran...iond/wiki/Home |
Re: [ANNOUNCE] locationd - generate location-based alerts
I thought Queen Beecon Widget has the capability of executing a script upon a Dbus event.
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] locationd - generate location-based alerts
Thanks for the pointer. I will take a look at Queen BeeCon.
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I tried this yesterday and it seems to work ... I see in the dbus-monitor that dbus events are being sent when i query current_location and nearby_location I suspect that dbus signals are sent when a location is nearby? is there a treshold that defines "nearby"? Is it possible to provide a sample dbus-scripts rule for the nearby signal? I want to try if i can start/stop fmtx and mediaplayer based on location furthermore, do you have plans on making a GUI for editing the places.csv? If not I am willing to give it a go (i have no python experience. but seems like a nice starting project) |
Re: [ANNOUNCE] locationd - generate location-based alerts
Thank you for taking the time to try locationd out. First, answers to your queries:
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/home/user/bin/log-location * * net.locationd poi_nearby Code:
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I haven't myself started any work on a GUI (I plead the real-life-intervened excuse) but I do have plans there. Feel free to work on it if you like, because I don't yet know how long it will take me to finish it. I'm in way over my head here with technologies I'm not fully familiar with yet (dbus, gtk, maemo widgets, debian packaging). |
Re: [ANNOUNCE] locationd - generate location-based alerts
An update: locationd 0.3 is now available.
Get the .deb from https://bitbucket.org/kushal_kumaran..._0.3-1_all.deb What's New: - a simple GUI, which allows starting and stopping monitoring and show list of nearby places The wiki at https://bitbucket.org/kushal_kumaran...iond/wiki/Home has a screenshot of the new GUI, which requires pyside. |
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op: anyway to make the location sensing based on gsm network instead of gps?? ie: like if the phone detects its within a define gsm tower, it will an alert or even better, run a script/command.
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