Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Ok, I worked a little on my script over the weekend... a wee bit.... and then I pulled an all nighter since my wife was away on a tradeshow anyway... so... what emerged is in extras/devel repository as "ZapLoc".

This is a very early version, but.... lemme know if it installs and works for you. Getting things to install through a repository on maemo was rather... tricky.


EDIT 2 - I (think I) I have fixed the google api installer, so try normal instal BEFORE trying this workaround


EDIT: Just installing ZapLoc doesn't work, because I botched the packaging of the google api client. To install it use these NEW instructions:

1. Install ZapLoc from the program manager (location category) or by doing "apt-get install zaploc" (same thing)
2. Now we need to get the Google Api Python Client thingamabob installed (this doesn't work in the installation - apologies)
3. Open X-term
4. Become root (at least I think you need to be root)
   
   Code:

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   sudo gainroot

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5. Go to some random directory for downloading unzipping
   
   Code:

   ---

   cd /home/user/MyDocs/

   ---

6. Download http://google-api-python-client.goog...t-1.0beta2.zip
   
   Code:

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   wget http://google-api-python-client.googlecode.com/files/google-api-python-client-1.0beta2.zip

   ---

7. Unzip it
   
   Code:

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   unzip api-python-client-1.0beta2.zip

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8. Go to that dir and run
   
   Code:

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   cd api-python-client-1.0beta2.zip
python setup.py install

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9. Now ZapLoc should (in theory) work.
10. If you want, you can delete the downloaded file and clear out and remove the directory, 'tis no longer needed.
    
    Code:

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    rm -r api-python-client-1.0beta2
rm api-python-client-1.0beta2.zip

    ---

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

What was it supposed to do? Mine put an icon in the menu, but when clicked it does nothing. Not even closing the menu and crashing, it just highlights the icon and freezes.

Manual launch? How?

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

any chance of a rough changelog and or some screenshots?

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Could be an issue with the google api not being installed... I tried to make it a package... try

apt-get install google-api-python-client

See if you have a directory "apiclient" in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages called "apilibrary"

If not, then I screwed up the api installer somehow, and you will have to use the method descibed earlier in this thread. Hmm. I tried to be rid of that dependency but I gave up on writing my own version.... oh well.

EDIT: It indeed was, see a few posts up for instructions on how to get around that manually for now

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

(never mind, this wasn't it - clearing out post so misleading info isn't there)

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I do. Freeze.

Don't think that's my problem.

That sentence no sense. :)

I have a directory called /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apiclient

There are some .py and some .pyc files in there, and some other underscore files. No more.

Two folders, contrib and ext. Contrib has buzz, latitude and moderator and "ext" has appengine py-s.

There is no sign of an apilibrary. In fact, there is no file called *apilibrary* anywhere in my filesystem.

The package zaploc depends on google-api-python-client and it was subsequently installed (shows up as installed, 1.0.1-1). Botched google-api-python-god-i-hate-this-naming-sistem-client?

Suggestions?

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Yes, that sentence made no sense, sorry. Meant "apiclient" only.

Naming convention is googles not mine... I just packaged it.

as for yor problem, try

apt-get install python-oauth python-oauth2

I don't know which package this missing "uritemplate" is supposedly from :( is there a way to know this?

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

oooh, it was supposed to be part of the google latitude api stuff. Crap.

I know I should never have tried to package that :(

Ok, do this:

Step 1: download http://google-api-python-client.goog...t-1.0beta2.zip

Step 2: unzip it to some directory

Step 3: go into this directory and type
If this worked, (you see it copy a bunch of stuff) you can delete the download and the directory you made if you want.

Hope this... helps?

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

ok I THINK I have fixed the packaging of google-api-python-client...

Pleasy try original install now, by simply installing zaploc only. SHOULD work.




In theory.




;)


/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

@masterzap

thx this app is what i was looking for since a long time.
install works as well app starts also. i setup the background location and my latitude account.

but the app isn't going to determine my current position?
there is also no gps icon shown in the notification/task area.

anny suggestion is welcome


thx a lot

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Yup, it goes like nuts now.

Only one complaint. It froze once, had to kill it and it left the daemon running even after subsequent restarts of app. I had to kill -9.

An option to killall or similar on startup or in options would be nice. Restart daemon or similar that kills all daempns and starts a fresh one.


Other than that, cooool.

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

ok, two things:

First, the app intentionally sleeps the GPS between sampling to conseve battery.

Secondly, by DEFAULT, the daemon turns off when you shut the program down, unless you explicitly turn that on in the configuration... I set this as the default because some people are paranoid about location being shared "when they don't know it", so YOU gave to turn it on.

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Uh, it does... (or is supposwd to) kill/restart (all) daemon(s) when youbstart the app....

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Ok, there has been some requests for "latitude only" stuff, and not my whole "app".... find that part attached.

Let me explain the story.

Obviously, me posting my whole app as a "small modification to the script" was, of course, a bit of a joke. I'm a comedian like that, and anyone who knows my dry humor would attest to this ;)


What REALLY happened: I had been playing with my app for QUITE some time, as a personal tool to check in to multiple locations. I hadn't combined it with Latitude, nor did I have have an automatic update daemon yet.


When I was playing with this update script, I realized that (some of) that code also applied to my app... and.... that with some sugar and spice, it could almost become a useable app, that I release!


So I decided to package up the app, and as a bit of a joke, post it here as if "oh by the way, I made a small modification to the script", and hilarity would ensue as I had undersold and overdelivered.

All that was thwarted by my screwed up packaging, and the joke went stale and unfunny. *badoom-not-psssh*... oh well :/ Sorry.


So - if you are interested in anything MORE than just Latitude, I still recommend you try out "ZapLoc" (you are welcome in the ZapLoc thread for that).


However, several people were only really interested in the "smarter updating of latitude" but ONLY, so that code is attached here:


This script is DIFFERENT than before. Gone are the "--once" option. Gone is the idea to start it from "Alarmed". Instead, this code will - after receiving a "good enough" GPS sample - sleep the GPS (turn it off, basically, not consuming any power) for a set number of minutes, and then turn it on again. Basically, the app is doing nothing consuming zero CPU for this time, and then turns back on and gets a GPS sample again after some minutes.

How many minutes of what, you can set yourself in the variables with upper-case names in the beginning of the file, here:

ALSO, the script still requires the google api, but I have made a package of that, in extras/devel you can be root and do

...to get that to happen.

Enjoy.

Or not. :)

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I like your work, Zap. The app is quite childish, but it really works, and well. An easy way to check in, to edit the configuration by a friendly UI, and a daemon in the background.

The only thing I miss is the possibility to check friends location in the map for Latitude, but as it wasn't the aim of your work and the app is not only Latitude. So I understand it not to be there.

Thanks for your work! :D

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Oh I wanted to add friends too.... but the Latitude API doesn't support that ... annoying, surprising... and strange!!! What is the point of a latitude API that can only post your own location?

You CAN get to your own location history, though.

Hmm.

/Z

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Hi,

as i allready wrote, my location wasn't detected. not even the gps started when running the app. after manually installing python-location

everything works fine.

regards

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Is not loading friends and not able to detect my location on the map.
Tried that kurtyy says but Python-location is already the newest version, my X-Term said.

What's wrong?

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Hi

I update my latitude client after a lot of time to be compatible with the new google api and oauth \o/

Nokia N900 - Fremantle - QWdidget-Based
http://maemo.org/packages/view/googlelatitude/ v0.7 and up

Nokia N950 - Harmattan - QML-Based
http://mapdata.linfati.cl/googlelatitude-harmattan.deb

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

can you post some pics ?

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I bet everybody moved on to use ZapLoc....

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Thanks. I tried it, but I don't see any updates appearing. I can see on my Google profile I've allowed "LatitudeUpdater" access. I can see the GPS icon appear, but no location updates appear on Latitude's website. I've rebooted. I'm not sure what's gone wrong... The previous version worked well before Google changed things server-side.

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

while testing this app it didnt actually work, didnt make one update which i was watching from the web at the same time, for hours...

however after doing a bit of reading on the google latitude api, if this maemo app worked i could see some features to add.

the api supports history update which is a feature of the webpage to track your own movements. interesting. obviously this maemo app if it cant make updates it should be able to cache/queue its updates until it can make an update and thus history is kept complete.

and if google eventually allow the latitude api to have friends locations be known (although this can be stripped from the webpage lol), this should be integrated into the contact list for that friends current location and last time they updated.

i guess my overall end picture here is to eventually get a proper google maps integration with latitute with contact list so one can just click on that contact, and maps will pop up with a turn by turn to their location. great dream :)

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I've spotted this in my Latitude settings:

Account settings -> Authorizing applications & sites -> You have granted the following services access to your Google Account: LatitudeUpdater -> More info -> You haven't given <<NUMBER>>.apps.googleusercontent.com any permission to access your Latitude location information.

I've run /opt/linfati.com/bin/LatitudeUpdaterDaemon in a shell and noticed the following problems:

* GoogleLatitude::onRequestReady "{"error":{"errors":[{"domain":"global","reason":"insufficientPermissio ns","message":"The user is not opted in to Google Latitude."}],"code":403,"message":"The user is not opted in to Google Latitude."}}"


* GoogleLatitude::sendCurrentLocation
json_location "{"data": {"kind":"latitude#location","latitude":<<LATITUDE> >,"longitude":<<LONGITUDE>>,"accuracy":<<ACCURACY> >}}"
("Authorization", "Content-Type")
"OAuth oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_consumer_key="<<NUMBER>>.apps.googleusercont ent.com", oauth_version="1.0", oauth_timestamp="<<NUMBER>>", oauth_nonce="<<NUMBER>>", oauth_token="<<TOKEN>>", oauth_signature="<<SIGNATURE>>""
"application/json"
* GoogleLatitude::onRequestReady ""
* GoogleLatitude::onAuthorizedRequestDone
* GoogleLatitude::onRequestReady "{"error":{"errors":[{"domain":"global","reason":"backendError","messag e":"Backend Error"}],"code":503,"message":"Backend Error"}}"

Hope this helps...

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

backend error ? uh...

please, delete ~/.config/linfati.com/latitudeupdater.conf and try again to auth

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Rodrigo, there are changes in API was announced some time ago, according to updated Developer's Guide (v1): Using REST :

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Thanks for the suggestion. I have:

Deleted ~/.config/linfati.com and ~/.config/linfati (old version) config directories.
Revoked access to the app in Google account settings so they're recreated from scratch.
Reauthenticated via the "Auth" button in the application, allowing access and getting to the "OAuth finished" screen.
Closed app and started /opt/linfati.com/bin/LatitudeUpdaterDaemon from console to get debug output

Same errors:

"You haven't given <number>.apps.googleusercontent.com any permission to access your Latitude location information." (from Google account settings page)

* GoogleLatitude::onRequestReady "{"error":{"errors":[{"domain":"global","reason":"insufficientPermissio ns","message":"The user is not opted in to Google Latitude."}],"code":403,"message":"The user is not opted in to Google Latitude."}}"
...
* GoogleLatitude::onRequestReady "{"error":{"errors":[{"domain":"global","reason":"backendError","messag e":"Backend Error"}],"code":503,"message":"Backend Error"}}"

Thanks.

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I've just compared the oAuth process between LatitudeWidget and ZapLoc (which works).

With ZapLoc, I get two pages:

page 1:

The site <number>.apps.googleusercontent.com is requesting access to your Google Latitude account. If you are granting <number>.apps.googleusercontent.com access for the first time, you'll need to grant access to Latitude below and then to your Google Account on a following page.

Do you want to grant <number>.apps.googleusercontent.com access to:

* View and update your best-available location
* View and update your current location

page 2:

The Zap's Location Updater application on your computer is requesting access to your Google Account for the product(s) listed below.

Google Latitude

With LatitudeWidget, I just get the 2nd page:

The LatitudeUpdater application on your computer is requesting access to your Google Account for the product(s) listed below.

Google Latitude

When I look at ZapLoc permissions:

This site currently has access to:

View and update your best-available location
View and update your current location

With LatitudeWidget:

You haven't given <number>.apps.googleusercontent.com any permission to access your Latitude location information.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

wired..., with my account:

You have granted xxx.apps.googleusercontent.com access to your Google Latitude account.
This site currently has access to:
View your city-level location
Update your best-available location
View and update your current location

:/

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I've tried using a different Google account (to see if it was account-specific), but it didn't fix the problem.

I've had a look at the Latitude OAuth doc, specifically the bit about scope:
http://code.google.com/apis/latitude...rest.html#auth

I've checked out your code from git and the only bit I could find that looked scope-related is this line (line 20) in googlelatitude.cpp:
GoogleOauthAdditional.insert("scope", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/latitude");

Should this be asking for "latitude.current.best" or similar, rather than just "latitude"?

I don't have a compilation environment set up to try different settings out.

Could you have set permissions manually during development and not added code to do it in the released version? Could you revoke access in your Google account settings and then try authorising again using the released version of your app to see if it stops working?

Hope this helps. Thanks for your assistance.

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

Just wondering, at what point in time was the map removed?

I could really do with an app to view friends location (meeting them at fosdem), but I can only find blogs and screenshots about LatitudeUpdater showing a map, current version doesn't.... :(

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

why every open app on the desktop can not open google latitude disappear ...:(

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

http://www.google.com/mobile/latitude/


:)

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

and your point is??????

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

I did some digging in the code and the Google APIs site. Turns out the LatitudeUpdater app is using OAuth v1.0 still. Google is forcing OAuth v2.0 for all Latitude API calls. So, it's dead for now until the program is updated to handle OAuth2. :(

Re: N900 + Google Latitude
 

The desktop (web) version is working for me, didn't notice any problems.