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Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
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
Hi MasterZap,

Do you have step-by-step noob level instructions? Or can somebody please do a lovely front-end GUI for this?

Thanks in advance...
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