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> PinePhone's GNSS/GPS module works through the modem. Which sort of makes sense, but then, you can't use GPS without a SIM card installed... Soon a thing of t
by jraph 3y ago
> PinePhone's GNSS/GPS module works through the modem. Which sort of makes sense, but then, you can't use GPS without a SIM card installed...
Soon a thing of the past. I worked on a ModemManager patch to fix this, and a MM maintainer reworked and merged it last month [1]
> When GPS is enabled, it takes 10-15 minutes to get a precise location.
You can manually inject AGPS data to get an instant precise location. Not ideal but this shows the situation is fixable. See instructions for this also at [1].
As for offline mapping, PureMaps with OSM Scout Server works well enough.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager/-/issues/183 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager...
- yaky 3y agoThank you! This will be useful as I have considered PinePhone as a carputer / navigation device.