You can use a bluetooth receiver with Loadstone but it has to be one
compatible with the iPhone. This is a restriction imposed by the iPhone, not
Loadstone itself. There are a few of these receivers out there I think but I
have no experience with them. As far as I know if you have one of these you
just connect it and any program that would use the internal GPS would use
the receiver instead.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Mike Hanson wrote:
The one drawback of using any GPS program I know about with an IPhone
is that it drains the battery. I don’t blame Loadstone for that. It
seems to use about the same amount of battery life as any other GPS
program I’ve used. I don’t know if the IPhone’s GPS receiver drains
battery life or the app does.
Would configuring Loadstone to use a Bluetooth receiver reduce the
demand on the IPhone’s battery? There might well be some reason
Loadstone doesn’t support a Bluetooth receiver with an IPhone. I am
not sure anybody makes Bluetooth GPS receivers these days. There are
other workarounds to deal with battery life issues. I thought I would
ask if there are plans to implement use of Bluetooth receivers. The
IPhone's built-in receiver seems as accurate as one could want. It is
certainly better than early Royltec receivers in my experience.
Mike Hanson
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