Do you have an old #PinePhone lying in the cupboard?

Dev versions of #ModemManager now support #GPS without a SIM card. Consumers of the MM API need some changes for this, so I submitted pull requests to #Geoclue (gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue), gnss-share (gitlab.com/postmarketOS/gnss-s), and my own simple #GNSS app Satellite (codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellit) (all 3 in different languages).

Soon it will be possible to use SIMless mobile phones for things like navigation and fitness tracking.

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@tpikonen for geoclue the .conf has CDMA, and 3G enabled and wiki states modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS).

What if like on a Librem 5 you have a 3G/4G/CDMA modem with GPS, but the antenna isn't plugged in? It will continuously search for and not find any GPS signal probably burning through a lot of battery.

Maybe there needs to be a DB signal check in the geoclue source daemon of some sorts, if there is no signal or bad signal compared to the GPS source then drop source

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