Thread: N900 + Google Latitude
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MasterZap is offline MasterZap
2011-04-27 , 07:31
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#167
Originally Posted by Whoopi View Post
oh, how dumb i was... okay, i removed the comment and now it works! thank you!
maybe an improvement: according to the gps-icon in the status area, your script continuously access the gps-receiver. could you please modify it, so that it turns gps off, while waiting for the next update?
I made a quick modification to the script which switches to true GPS position (the way I want it, cell tower is 100% useless to me), plus adds a "--once" command line option.

That way, I can call alarmed to call the script every 10 minutes addomg the "--once" option, et voila.... also, it requires the config file latitude.dat to be in /home/user/latitude/ (probably not a very unix-y place to put it) which you must create first by manually running it once and going through the authorization.

After that, you can put it into Alarmed w. eg. a cron string "*/10 * * * *" or somesuch.

/Z
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