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Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by petur (Post 1010024)

I just had ZapLoc stop updating Latitude again - it is set to check every 5 minutes and update at least once per hour. Current latitude data was 2 hours old, so I decided to start de daemon in the terminal to check, and it told me it detected and killed the running version.

So the daemon isn't crashing, but why is it stopping the updates?

How to go about to debug?

Start it in terminal and leave it running in terminal. If it stops updating, tell me how the end (the few dozen last lines) of that looks. That's my best guess. Does it end with a "sleeping GPS for x minutes" or not, is probably the most important question....

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

which is what I did right after posting....

It is now a little over an hour, and it fetches location every 5 minutes, then says it is within 100m and goes to sleep again.

So it is ignoring my setting to update at least every hour.

I can try to keep it running and see what it does when I drive home in a few hours

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

After two hours it eventually did a latitude update, but that was because it seemed to have picked up another cell tower finally.
Log available on request

So it looks like there is an issue with the code to force an update after xx time.

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

just tested exclusively with facebook places. Seems to work out. One thing to point out. On facebook, it does not show the username on the location checkin.

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3606/image1vtz.jpg

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Idea for a future feature.... in heavily cluttered places it can be hard to find the icon for the place youre in.... so maybe a search function?

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

The text box can't accept non-Latin text.
Tried pasting text in it, and displayed boxes, then crashed.

Well, maybe not a big deal for most peoples.

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Storm_11 (Post 1010620)

Idea for a future feature.... in heavily cluttered places it can be hard to find the icon for the place youre in.... so maybe a search function?

Another vote for this feature, in heavily cluttered places it's nearly impossible to find the correct place for check-in.

Similarly, when creating a zaploc for multiple services at once, sometimes it's not possible to set the same check-in location for all services as the list is filled with irrelevant places. A search would be helpful here as well.

Going one step further, what I would ideally like to see at any given time is a searchable list of nearby places that I can check in to, without ever even needing to look at the map. I could then do simple single-click check-ins or choose to create a zaploc for the best locations. But maybe that's just me :)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by nseika (Post 1010643)

The text box can't accept non-Latin text.
Tried pasting text in it, and displayed boxes, then crashed.

Well, maybe not a big deal for most peoples.

Right, well, the text box is home-implemented (since all the GUI is home implemented in... drumroll please.... PYGAME :eek: ) so I would NOT hold my breath for this. At all.

Basically, be happy there is a text-box at all :)

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Last night I fired it up, and used tower lock, then exited. This morning, battery was at 70% and it was still trying. Had to kill daemon. Tried again, hooked again, until I went outside and it locked.

So, kill it from CLI after use?

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ndi (Post 1010864)

Tower lock is very experimental so far and has some issues as noted above. Most of energy has gone into "intelligent GPS lock", but even that has some issues (like, if it can't find anything, it seems to try forever, which is bad). I need to add a timeout. That is stil missing.

But tower lock per se shouldn't really consume power, since it's information your device already has by virtue of being connected to the cellular network.

Knowing my N900 as I do, losing only 30% over night would be fantastic :) (I always charge overnight)

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by morti (Post 1010732)

Another vote for this feature, in heavily cluttered places it's nearly impossible to find the correct place for check-in.

There is a vague plan for a text-list at some point... just not yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by morti (Post 1010732)

Similarly, when creating a zaploc for multiple services at once, sometimes it's not possible to set the same check-in location for all services as the list is filled with irrelevant places. A search would be helpful here as well.

Good to know the algorithm:

The list of places are filled in based on a center point. For the search on the service you clicked, the center point is that of the thing you clicked (basically guaranteeing that the item you clicked are top on the list for that service). For the OTHER services, though, search center is *screen center* (tiny crosshair).

If I ever implement scrolling in the little popup lists, this will become a non-problem, I hope. Searching is an idea too... but a much bigger project.

It's all down to the insanity of me making my own UI, but it's fun that way :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by morti (Post 1010732)

Going one step further, what I would ideally like to see at any given time is a searchable list of nearby places that I can check in to, without ever even needing to look at the map. I could then do simple single-click check-ins or choose to create a zaploc for the best locations. But maybe that's just me :)

You mean m.gowalla.com? :)

Duly noted, however, in my mind, the UI is really just a tool to create ZapLoc's, and once you have those, you never use anything else (and auto-checkins take care of the bulk of checker-innery for you).

This is a hobby/weekend/evening project after all, and I make it _primarily_ to do what I myself want to do, _secondarily_ as a coding excercise, and _tertiary_ because I'm mad, MAD I TELL YOU!

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Storm_11 (Post 1010620)

This is simply how facebook posts checkins. Post another one you'll see that THAT is preceeded by your name. Actually, facebook takes the name out of the first post on anything, I think.

Also the text before "at" is whatever you type in as you check in, not you.

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by petur (Post 1010107)

I'd love to see the latter part, the important bit is if it is sleeping/awakening the GPS or not. If something breaks that cycle, well... then the cycle is broken *duh* :)

Again, the whole code is backwards compared ot what it needs to be for cell tower anyway, GPS continously feeds coordinates, and never stop until I tell it, so I can simply measure time until X time has past and stuff like that. For cell, it only sends data if it changed. Having the "on-changed" callback as the root of my code is the root of the problem.

Will be fixed at some point, but I don't know when or how.

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Wow just blown away by this. Where the hell did this come from?

Really a great app. Enter the competition! :)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1010920)

I'd love to see the latter part, the important bit is if it is sleeping/awakening the GPS or not. If something breaks that cycle, well... then the cycle is broken *duh* :)

It really keeps printing the wakeup line and all, so I would expect it to work... Log below....

Code:

2011-05-19 15:39:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 15:39:45: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 15:39:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 15:44:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 15:44:45: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 15:44:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 15:49:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 15:49:45: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 15:49:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 15:54:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 15:54:45: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 15:54:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 15:59:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 15:59:45: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 15:59:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

^[[5~Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:04:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:04:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:04:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:09:45: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:09:45: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:09:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:14:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:14:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:14:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:19:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:19:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:19:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:24:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:24:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:24:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:29:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:29:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:29:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:34:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:34:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:34:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:39:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:39:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:39:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:44:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:44:47: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:44:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:49:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:49:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:49:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:54:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:54:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:54:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 16:59:46: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

Updates within 100 meters - not sending

2011-05-19 16:59:46: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 16:59:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 17:04:47: Got loc data 51.028131,3.770349 (acc 96.017000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

2011-05-19 17:04:47: Latitude update 51.028131,3.770349 (acc 96.017000)

{'latitude': 51.028131299999998, 'kind': 'latitude#location', 

'accuracy': 96, 'longitude': 3.7703494000000002, 'timestampMs': 

'1305817491146'}

2011-05-19 17:04:51: General location update 51.028131,3.770349 (acc 

96.017000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 17:04:51: Got loc data 51.028131,3.770349 (acc 96.017000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

Starting GPS...

2011-05-19 17:09:47: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 2, Try 0

2011-05-19 17:09:47: Latitude update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

{'latitude': 51.029901500000001, 'kind': 'latitude#location', 

'accuracy': 206, 'longitude': 3.7642340000000001, 'timestampMs': 

'1305817792390'}

2011-05-19 17:09:52: General location update 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 

206.965000)

Searching for closest spot:

Sleeping GPS for approx. 5 minutes

2011-05-19 17:09:52: Got loc data 51.029902,3.764234 (acc 206.965000) 

alt nan (32767.500000), head nan, speed nan, Mode 0, Try 0

^CTraceback (most recent call last):

  File "/opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py", line 8, in <module>

    if __name__ == '__main__': app.zdaemon.main(sys.argv[1:])

  File "/opt/zaploc/app/zdaemon.py", line 470, in main

  File "/opt/zaploc/app/zdaemon.py", line 337, in init

KeyboardInterrupt

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Ok, got it... every time it got a tower-sample, it re-set the timer REGARDLESS if it actually had sent an update to latitude or not (*argh*).

Now I only reset the latitude timer if it ACTUALLY sends a latitude update.

New build will take a little while, though, I have the program dissected for other changes right now....

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

no worries... I'm keeping off updates as much as I can because the CSSU causes the voip package to be uninstalled on every update :/
(autoremove bug)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1010910)

Knowing my N900 as I do, losing only 30% over night would be fantastic :) (I always charge overnight)

/Z

My N900 loses 8 percent overnight. 900 MHz, connected to wifi over WPA. 30 is huge.

Also, daemon doesn't exit. Just 2 minutes ago, my N900 fired up GPS, got a lock and then closed it. There is only one app that does GPS on its own on my phone.

Let's see.

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# ps | grep zap

 9958 user     49768 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

11590 user     49752 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

11648 user     49752 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

11681 user     49748 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

17789 user     49480 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

18714 user     48944 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

18746 user     48944 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

18827 root      2832 S    grep zap

Nokia-N900:~#

That's one mystery down.

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ndi (Post 1010977)

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# ps | grep zap

 9958 user     49768 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

11590 user     49752 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

11648 user     49752 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

11681 user     49748 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

17789 user     49480 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

18714 user     48944 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

18746 user     48944 S    /usr/bin/python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -d

18827 root      2832 S    grep zap

Nokia-N900:~#

That's one mystery down.

Hmm, it's supposed to kill any running copies of itself when launching. If you do

Code:

python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -t

What does it say

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1010916)

sure? I just tried checking in with a different facebook application, and it shows:

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/4836/image1yx.jpg

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Name "blue-d" out for privacy reasons. But on this application it shows my name in the newsfeed. Versus Zaploc in its current build, which even in the general newsfeed, does not show the username associated with the activity, only the avatar.

and just checked in for a second time with Zaploc, and it exhibits the same behaviour that i previously reported. Does not show the username

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Storm_11 (Post 1011043)

sure? I just tried checking in with a different facebook application, and it shows:

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/4836/image1yx.jpg

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Interesting. I don't know if I have any control over that, though... I just do a checkin over the API... :/

Have to check if I can feed in some extra parameter or something...

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjp (Post 1010924)

Wow just blown away by this. Where the hell did this come from?

Really a great app. Enter the competition! :)

Thanks, it warms the heart.

It's really just

a) Something I've always needed myself
b) A programming excercise

If someone else can benefit from it - all teh merrier.

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by petur (Post 1010958)

no worries... I'm keeping off updates as much as I can because the CSSU causes the voip package to be uninstalled on every update :/
(autoremove bug)

I just blasted a build 32 to extras/devel with a timeout feature, could you test it? I'm not pusing it to extras/testing until it's gotten some love, coz it has some rather big changes.

Btw; "on cell tower change only" still doesn't work, just so you know.

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

It says ps: invalid option -- e

This is a good time to mention I have the updated busybox. PS is different, it only takes -w. I could have sworn it did this before, but I can't really test.

May I ask why you don't simply ps | grep "/python /opt/zap"? What does e do in the original?

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

I'm reaaly impressed by this application. Very nice UX/UI. Good work masterZap :)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

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Originally Posted by ndi (Post 1011577)

Nothing, methinks.

The particular "ps | grep" line I use was found by the epic art of googling (a hairy "ps | grep | awk" thing that spits out a list of pid's I can consume and kill), and it seems to originate from some *nix variant where -e meant something. Original Maemo seems to ignore it, and the thing works fine without it, so I'm removing it.

Thanks for finding that!!

/Z

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Originally Posted by lidow (Post 1011696)

I'm reaaly impressed by this application. Very nice UX/UI. Good work masterZap :)

Thank you sir.

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

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Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1011698)

The particular "ps | grep" line I use was found by the epic art of googling (a hairy "ps | grep | awk" thing that spits out a list of pid's I can consume and kill), and it seems to originate from some *nix variant where -e meant something. Original Maemo seems to ignore it, and the thing works fine without it, so I'm removing it.

Thanks for finding that!!

/Z

-e is same as -A, i.e. all processes. I think it already does that.

I found that ~ $ ps | grep xterm | awk -F " " '{print $1}' works well. (for xterm).

kill $(ps | grep xterm | awk -F " " '{print $1}')

seems to shoot all my terminal windows.

ETA:

Nevermind, my phone didn't boot any more, backup menu didn't work any more, I flashed it. Don't install the new busybox.

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

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Originally Posted by ndi (Post 1011884)

Nevermind, my phone didn't boot any more, backup menu didn't work any more, I flashed it. Don't install the new busybox.

Ouch :(

Then again, I'm glad you didn't blame ZapLoc ;)

/Z :D

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Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1012282)

Ouch :(

Then again, I'm glad you didn't blame ZapLoc ;)

/Z :D

Normally I'd say I can tell who did what but I can't really shine after installing untested -devel software and rendering an N900 with multiboot and backupmenu unbootable (no small feat).

Did recover, though. Flashed root only, fired up backup, backed up comms and conversations, then installed BM and restored to previous glory, then restored conversations and call logs to date.

Then did a thorough cleaning. My stock flashed 600 MHz was faster than my OCd 900. Darn -devel. Must say, this has been an enlightening experience.

Among other things, location daemon now seems to exit :P

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I have a weird bug. Maybe it's related to a missing font but I don't see the text inside the green boxes. For example the "Authorize" text when setting the services, or when I try to check-in to a facebook place. I only see the green buttons without anything inside.

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

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Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1011269)

Working great, bug fixed!

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

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Originally Posted by karmax (Post 1012505)

Unfortunately can't really help you there, I'm using what the documentation claims is the "built in" font in pygame. Maybe reinstall pygame? :/

/Z

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The option to update location when cell tower changes doesn't work for me. It just activates the GPS every second (with the log message "Sleeping GPS for 0 minutes").

I wanted to take a look over the code to see what's wrong but you submitted pyo files which I don't think it's quite right for an application in free extras/testing repository (should to be open-source).

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Originally Posted by andrei1089 (Post 1012918)

The option to update location when cell tower changes doesn't work for me. It just activates the GPS every second (with the log message "Sleeping GPS for 0 minutes").

If you had read one of the earlier posts just before yours, you would have seen that this isn't implemented yet and causes a loop

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Having a curious problem at the moment. When starting the ZapLoc daemon from desktop (either via shortcut, Desktop Command Execution Widget or Queen Beecon Widget), it fails to kill the previously existing process, which means that after a few activations there are multiple daemons running.

However, running the exact same command from command line works properly and kills all the previously existing processes.

Not your problem exactly I know, but any tips/ideas?

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Originally Posted by morti- (Post 1012994)

Could be a permission problem, that in one case you are starting it as "root", other case as "user"? It's "supposed" to be run as "user" and it can kill itself as "user".

Maybe I just need to kill it harder somehow ;)

/Z

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Originally Posted by petur (Post 1012921)

If you had read one of the earlier posts just before yours, you would have seen that this isn't implemented yet and causes a loop

I just pushed build 34 to -devel (it may not even have showed up there yet) which DOES have an implementation for it... but it isn't terribly good. Frankly, I don't think I will this get this to work in any meaningful way, so it's quite likely I'll remove this from the UI.

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

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Originally Posted by MasterZap (Post 1013003)

Hmm.. I have no idea about how running things from the desktop works, but in the same script I have several dbus calls which work just fine - and these also wouldn't work if run as root, as far as I know?

For reference, here's the command I'm using:
python /opt/zaploc/zaploc-daemon.py -i 60 --gps | echo "" &

(and other variations)

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No I meant there is probably an issue in my code. I think that if you have started the daemon as root, my deamon run as user can't kill it. Or likely, doen't even try (the "-a" is missing in my "ps | grep" line used for the killing, methinks)

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)

Great app, thanks.

I cover emergency and event communications so for instance if there is a charity event and help is needed I use a radio relay for support, but having a central control where they can see all support workers and their positions via Latitude comes in very handy.

Couple of questions though please. I would like to switch between other apps and leave this running in the background. I can switch by pressing ctrl-backspace on the keypad, but some other apps (particularly web browser) allow the title bar to appear by tapping the bottom right of the screen, yours doesn't. Would you plan to add that?

Also if I set the daemon to still run after the program exits, it seems to use a 'fast' GPS location which is generally the cell tower nearby. I can see the GPS fire up and shut down but it doesn't get a true lock, whereas if I leave the program running it gives an accurate lock.

Thanks again for your hard work, you are doing a great job.