🆗Live map view🆙location warning and timestamp problems

[NEKLAN]

According to this post, I may have confirmed the problem.

@geeksville

For the devices that don’t have GPS, if they are paired with a phone running the app, the app will provide GPS data from the phone automatically. The device code will use that as a substitute for a built in GPS. The other nodes in the mesh don’t even care that the position came from the device itself or the phone that was helping it.

[What someone knows]

• Both Wi-Fi and mobile networks and location are enabled, but no live map view is displayed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Test environment 2 shows string name=“location_disabled_warning” even if the location are enabled.(APP ver 0.7. 78 wasn’t displayed)
  
  
  

@NEKLAN

• The reception time of the received message goes wrong.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

【Test content】

• Forget radio pairing
• Reboot a phone
• Clear the app cache
• Bug reporting in test environment 1

[Test environment 1]

• Meshtastic firmware : ttgo-lora32-v1-JP-0.7.8
• APP ver : 0.7.80
• Phone : OnePlus One(Android 5.11)
• Username : Administrator

@NEKLAN

[Test environment 2]

• Meshtastic firmware : ttgo-lora32-v1-JP-0.7.8
• APP ver : 0.7.80
• Phone : SOYES XS(Android 6.0)
• Username : Guest

@NEKLAN

[aHVzY2g]

You have to check this box, in order to use the map view.

[NEKLAN]

Thank you for a quick answer💡

[geeksville]

yep what @aHVzY2g said. But to elaborate: the ‘free’ map provider plan we are on implicitly does (‘anonymized’) analytics whenever their map pane is on, because of that (and not wanting to mislead people). I disable the map view when you have disabled analytics. That’s what that warning message is saying.

Someday would could either switch to a different map provider or pay for commercial access (which doesn’t do analytics). But someone would need to code this up.

[NEKLAN]

With these posts, I tested again in the same environment and found that the problem with live map view was resolved.

Live map view🆙location warning and timestamp problems

You have to check this box, in order to use the map view. [grafik]

Live map view🆙location warning and timestamp problems

yep what @aHVzY2g said. But to elaborate: the ‘free’ map provider plan we are on implicitly does (‘anonymized’) analytics whenever their map pane is on, because of that (and not wanting to mislead people). I disable the map view when you have disabled analytics. That’s what that warning message is saying. Someday would could either switch to a different map provider or pay for commercial access (which doesn’t do analytics). But someone would need to code this up.

Thank you @aHVzY2g and @geeksville.
However, several problems reported at the time were not resolved.
Now that I know that these are not related to the problem with live map view, we’ll report them on the same topic.

[What someone knows]

@NEKLAN

Test environment 2 shows string name=“location_disabled_warning” even if the location are enabled.(APP ver 0.7. 78 wasn’t displayed)

@NEKLAN

• The reception time of the message received in Test environment 2 is not correct.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

@NEKLAN

【Test content】

• Forget radio pairing
• Reboot a phone
• Clear the app cache

@NEKLAN

[Test environment 1]

• Meshtastic firmware : ttgo-lora32-v1-JP-0.7.8
• APP ver : 0.7.80
• Phone : OnePlus One(Android 5.11)
• Username : Administrator

[Test environment 2] Problem

• Meshtastic firmware : ttgo-lora32-v1-JP-0.7.8
• APP ver : 0.7.80
• Phone : SOYES XS(Android 6.0)
• Username : Guest
  
  
  

[thekwijibo]

Forgive me if this isn’t the correct thread for this, but the map view would show my devices initially, but they would not update or refresh locations. I had to reboot my Android device in order for it to refresh the location. Is there a manual way in forcing a map location update?

[geeksville]

the map view should be updating location periodically when the devices change position. But there is an open bug related to this:

When we send position updates to other nodes, we should also send it to the phone

[Kels316]

how often do the nodes send their location to each other?