Future of location services on OM

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Monday 19 January 2009 22:46:32 schrieb Onen:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Am Monday 19 January 2009 18:13:41 schrieb Onen:
> >> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> >>> Am Thursday 15 January 2009 22:52:40 schrieb Onen:
> >>>> To be sure of the tuple I log, I
> >>>> prefer to get everything in a single shot. Moreover, I prefer to
> >>>> receive signals instead of calling monitor methods every time I want
> >>>> to log something, I guess this saves CPU, thus power.
> >>>
> >>> There are no unsolicited responses from the monitor for these
> >>> information, you have to poll for them. What we could do is cover this
> >>> in the framwork, but then we might as well let the application define
> >>> the update granularity / data accuracy.
> >>>
> >>> s/monitor/modem/
> >>
> >> Not sure to understand what you mean by unsolicited responses from the
> >> modem. The framework sends a signal
> >> (org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.Status), following the GSM specs. Do you
> >> mean that under the hood, the framework does polling, because the modem
> >> does not have this kind of unsollicited signal?
> >
> > We're talking about two different kind of things.
> > org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.Status is about the gsm registration
> > information as defined by 07.07 -- for this there are unsolicited
> > response codes defined and we're using them.
> >
> > org.freesmartphone.GSM.Monitor is the new addition to ogsmd, giving you
> > detailed information about not only the serving cell but also up to 6
> > neighbour cells in range. This one is not defined in 07.07 and there are
> > no unsolicited response codes, therefore we do not offer a signal.
>
> Then we agree. Maybe I was unclear, but I wanted to say that I use the
> org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.Status
> signal at the moment to get MCC, MNC, lac, cell-id, etc. in one shot.
> And I prefer to keep using it, instead of switching to the new
> monitoring interface because I would need to use polling.

Sure thing, but keep in mind hat the monitoring interfaces -- although not 
portable -- gives you much more information.

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