Thread: Tinkering with DBus on Jolla
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-04-16 , 19:52
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Originally Posted by evk View Post
Anyone now how to get GPS-coordinates through dbus? Or some other simple way that can be used from a shell script?
I had a couple of tries, but could not figure out how to do it.

Apparently the thing to use is "org.freedesktop.Geoclue.Master" but how to exactly do that escapes my understanding. I did some experimenting with qdbus but the format of the dbus commands are too difficult for me to understand...

It's got a org.freedesktop.Geoclue.Master.Create() method, and invoking that will give you a new thingy, something like "/org/freedesktop/Geoclue/Master/client0" for example, where the last number will probably increase based on how many thingies you have create():d...