Experimenting with utilizing assisted GNSS techniques on #Librem5. Cold fix takes about 3 minutes in perfect conditions, but can easily take *much* longer otherwise - that's how GPS works. However, by downloading satellite data from the Internet instead of the sky it can go down to under a minute; sometimes even just a few seconds. Still a proof-of-concept at this point, but can already tell that catching a fix gets significantly easier this way:) #mobile #gnu #linux #gnss #gps #galileo #glonass
@dos I thought cell phones already did this. If there's an internet connection the software pulls in GPS satellite information. At least, when I tried using GPS on my old iPhone it complained that it needed a cell connection to work properly.
