Notices

Can the aplication shows what is turned on?
(something like a button showing that the GPS/CELL/etc is on use.)

@fabiomanzoni see the config on the gui or cat ~/.config/linfati/googlelatitude.conf ( if is not show, then is cell )

@MasterZap what you think about...
[update always] [Update on network connection] [update only on gprs]

the first do not check if is online, if is active the "automatic connect" will connect to internet

the second (default) will update if a network conection is present

the third will update ONLY is the connection is a cell connection ( need some testing... but i think i can do it..)

Actually I realzed there is a problem with stopping updates completely: Google latitude by default considers updates "old" after a few hours and stops listing you (at least on the webpage).

Maybe simply have two update interval settings:
GPRS update frequency:
WIFI Update frequency:

/Z

I cannot shorten update interval at least 300 seconds ! Why?
I put 120 but when i reconnect it is again at 300!

edit .config/linfati/GoogleLatitude.conf and NOT open config...

If I have it configured to use only celltower info, but the GPS is switched on (nav software), will it use the more accurate position available?

@petur: yes

Just a note that the current app works *perfectly* with GPS, exactly the way I want it. And it takes very little battery even though I used 15 minutes update interval all day every day.

*thank you*

/Z

I've been testing googlelatitude 0.6-2 for a while and it's working really good without much battery drain and is nearly feature complete. Thank you very much for your efforts!

Still there's one feature that could be useful and is missing at the moment: I'm using googlelatitude for tracking. When I'm driving around with my car I have to shorten the update interval manually to track the route I take with my car.

It would be nice to have something like a "dynamic update interval": Use the normal update interval (set via gui), if there's no movement. If GPS is active and there's a movement rate above a defined speed threshold, dynamically set the update interval to a shorter value (perhaps depending on the movement rate); the "dynamic update interval" could be enabled/disabled via GUI if somebody doesn't like it. What do you think about it?

I noticed that after 2 weeks uptime, it was using quite a large chunk of memory (all operations on the phone took a couple of seconds while it was swapping). Stopping and starting the daemon frred the memory up; it looks like there's a memory leak somewhere.

Also, a wishlist item: don't send an update if the circle of accuracy is larger than a certain value. Apparently my N900 connects to a cell about 10km away, and when I'm indoors and the GPS has no lock, that update is worse than useless...

Checking into locations, like the android app does nowadays, would also be cool.

Thanks for a great tool!