Hi Felix ! Thank you so much for those valuable suggestions ! Extremely sorry for the misreading MozStumbler over FxStumbler .
Prathamesh On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Felix Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Awesome! Good article ;) > > Some stuff that should be added: > - an explanation of the power saving options > - uploads should start automatically (depending on the settings) and if > there are more than 50 reports ready for uploading > - it's possible to save mobile traffic/bandwidth by adjusting the upload > and the map resolution settings > - you can save power by deactivating wifi but checking the checkbox next > to "Always allow scanning" in the advanced wifi settings dialogue (it's > available on Android 4.3+ and might be called slightly different on samsung > devices) -> MozStumbler will then scan for wifi aps that are around, but > the device stops searching for known Access points that it can connect to > (what you need to know though is, that after enabling it, MozStumbler maybe > needs to be restarted, if it is already scanning -> check the checkbox > before you start scanning) > > and it might be useful for some of the stumblers to know that the minimum > distance before MozStumbler records a new record is either 1 second or 30m > -> just so that nobody is wondering why it doesn't record that many points > while walking > > side note: > I still would like to see this changed back to 10 meters btw. > because it was like that before the play store release and worked fine > hanno said afterwards that the impact on the server wasn't as hard as > thought, which makes sense because most stumblers are using cars which are > driving faster than 10m or 30m per second anyways so that the one second > interval grips, > but for walking people it would be nice to get more accurate data, because > it is possible > for cars it wouldn't be possible of course, but for pedestrians it is > > BTT: > @prathamesh > But I also think you missed the point here, this thread in general was > rather about FxStumbler than about MozStumbler ^^ > FxStumbler is an app for Firefox OS that has similar functionality to > MozStumbler (but is also a bit restricted by the OS in comparison) > > If someone wants to contact clochix: > just open an issue on his github repo ;) > https://github.com/clochix/FxStumbler > > Regards, > Felix Baumann > > Am 29.06.2015 um 06:28 schrieb Prathamesh Chavan: > >> Hello Michael ! >> >> I am Prathamesh from Mozilla India community. Thank you for posting this >> message on the dev-geolocation list. >> I am happy to inform you that Mozilla India community has formed a >> Geolocation Task Force which aims on evangelizing Mozilla Stumbler >> application and thus promoting Mozilla Location Service. Our team has come >> up with various geolocation stumbling events and also, we have documented >> some steps which could be used to teach the newbies as how to use the >> MozStumbler application. >> Link : How to use Mozilla Stumbler for Android >> < >> https://ronitjadhav.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/how-to-use-mozilla-stumbler-android/ >> > >> >> >> Regards, >> Prathamesh Chavan >> Mozilla Reps | Member, Mozilla India Geolocation TFT >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Garvan Keeley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> The enthusiasm is appreciated, but we aren't recommending FxStumbler; it >>> isn't actively maintained (no fault of Clochix I should mention, FxOS >>> hasn't changed to meet the needs of the app), and is not installable by >>> average users (requires internal-level permissions) which vastly limits >>> the >>> number of installs. There is an additional problem that there is no web >>> api >>> to get accurate info about the GPS state (GPS fix state is nonexistent >>> as a >>> web api). >>> >>> However, we are working on landing stumbling in FxOS in the Gecko/Gonk >>> layer: >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154435 >>> >>> My hope is that we can push this to Flame users and Foxfooders first. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-geolocation mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> dev-geolocation mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation > _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
