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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/04/16 12:58, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 08.04.2016, 12:36 +0100 schrieb Alan Bell:
> > is it possible to add a crontab line to run ubuntu-location-serviced-cli
> > with some parameters telling it to wake up the GPS chip every half an
> > hour or so and get a fix then go back to sleep?
> >
> > Is there some script that gets called when the screen is unlocked? - a
> > bit like the lid switch scripts on a laptop in /etc/acpi (there is no
> > /etc/acpi on the phone)
> there is a dbus signal when the screen awakes/suspends ...
OK, that might help if I can subscribe to it from a thing that gets 
woken up in time to get the signal.

> cron wouldn't help you here as it can not wake up the hardware (it would
> be sleeping too if the system is properly suspended), cron only
> processes things while the phone is awake (or post-processes them via
> anacron)...
this is one sleepy feckless phone.
> what you can do is either keep bits of the HW awake constantly or setup
> a timer of some kind that interacts directly with the kernel wakelock
> mechanism.
>
> ciao
> 	oli
so, running dbus-monitor whilst running unav I see that I am getting 
some stuff relating to espoo, which I think is the HERE maps cell tower 
location, but it moves about like a GPS would do and sensor status says 
it is using GPS

signal sender=:1.0 -> dest=(null destination) serial=42034 
path=/com/ubuntu/Upstart; interface=com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6; 
member=EventEmitted
   string "dbus"
   array [
      string "SIGNAL=PositionChanged"
      string "BUS=system"
      string "INTERFACE=com.ubuntu.remote.Service.Provider"
      string "OBJPATH=/com/ubuntu/espoo/Service/Provider"
      string "SENDER=:1.29"
      string "ARG0=51.212583"
      string "ARG1=-0.790835"
      string "ARG2=TRUE"
      string "ARG3=nan"
      string "ARG4=TRUE"
      string "ARG5=25.000000"
      string "ARG6=TRUE"
      string "ARG7=nan"
   ]

nothing at all mentioning the word "location" Did the location services 
dbus API get taken over by the espoo thing? Is GPS even turned on here? 
Is there any up to date documentation for this stuff?