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Originally Posted by kushal.kumaran View Post
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
Thank you for making this!

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)

Last edited by ny-hardcore; 2010-11-08 at 16:10.