QtPositioning with KStars?

[Valentin Boettcher]

Hi.

It may be, that my system differs from yours, bit I geoclue working.

I would suggest, that you take the same steps as I did and try to build
it from source. They also have a demo `where-am-i` in the demo folders
which produced the following output for me:

Client object: /org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/1

New location:
Latitude:    51.034122°
Longitude:   13.739034°
Accuracy:    142.931009 meters
Timestamp:   Wed 09 Aug 2017 09:41:21 AM CEST (1502264481 seconds since the Epoch)

New location:
Latitude:    51.034137°
Longitude:   13.739026°
Accuracy:    141.526416 meters
Speed:       0.197150 meters/second
Heading:     116.865814°
Timestamp:   Wed 09 Aug 2017 09:41:30 AM CEST (1502264490 seconds since
the Epoch)


It seems that QT uses an older version of the library, but it is really
quite simple to use it directly, though annoying for portability
reasons.

Well, however:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue/#index4h1 is the key.

I'll have to test QT Location services.

Cheers.

Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> So I tried recently to introduce QtPositioning into KStars location dialog
> so that it can fetch geo-location from Qt from whatever backend system
> supported on the operating system.
>
> It's already used in KStars Lite to fetch location info from Android.
> However, on desktop Linux, Qt Positioning relies on geoclue. I have it
> installed right here, but I can't seem to get any position info on it. I
> used geoclue-test-gui but that just threw errors even though I installed
> several position providers.
>
> Anybody has any clue how to diagnose the issue here? I really would like to
> make location-fetching part of the upcoming KStars release!