First up is a Geoclue plugin for gnome-bluetooth, which allows you to set up your Bluetooth GPS device.
This will work best with the patches in the Geoclue bugzilla, so that the selection is instant-apply.
The second piece of work is a Skyhook Geoclue provider. This code manages to put me within 20 yards of my house, though we should be getting NetworkManager's help to get the AP's MAC address.
Finally, my Geoclue Firefox patch should soon be getting reviewed. It's been long enough that I forgot how to build Mozilla (probably a good thing).
As an added bonus, I've sent a patch against NetworkManager to Dan with a gnome-bluetooth plugin, which should allow users to just tick a box to set up PANU Internet access.
Now, we just need somebody reviewing all those Geoclue patches. Maintainer, where are you at?
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It would be interesting to feed GeoClue into NetworkManager to get a bit of extra network security - only connect to the corporate WLAN when GPS indicates you are inside corporate headquarters.
Hey, Would also be cool to be able to use NetworkManager to get information about cell information if the device has a 3G/mobile card in it using the OpenCellID support that's in the git release of geoclue.
http://www.opencellid.org/
Cheers,
Peter
Anon: there's a bit of a chicken/egg problem here, how do you tell you're in headquarters if you use the AP's MAC address to locate yourself for example. I don't really see this as adding much security either, but feel free to ask the NM guys.
Peter: yeah, the gammu code really needs to die die die. There's some code in gnome-phone-manager to export the Cell data through D-Bus. Not sure how we're going to fix that later on...
I'm not sure what is up with upstream, but I don't believe the original author is available any longer (either that, or he's no longer interested). It appears the project needs a new maintainer - perhaps that could be you! :)
PANU as in PAN client to PAN server? That sounds great, I currently have to use the command line and disable NM to do this. Is it possible for you to write a blog post about this patch and some screenies etc.?
Does it make sense to integrate your work and geoclue-properties?
http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/06/08/introducing-geoclue-properties/en/
Alban: not really, as I'm working on the backend, and a different front-end point-of-access.
more insanely awesome stuff, big kudos. post again when this stuff lands and I will test (I have an app that turns my phone into a Bluetooth GPS receiver...)
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