[Interest] QGeoPositionInfoSource on Windows 10

maitai maitai at virtual-winds.org
Thu Jun 2 06:08:47 CEST 2016


Hello,

I can read here http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtpositioning-index.html

"Currently the API is supported on Android, iOS, OS X, Linux (using 
GeoClue version 0.12.99), Windows (with GPS receivers exposed as a 
serial port providing NMEA sentences), and WinRT (using 
Windows.Devices.Geolocation)."

Question 1: Does it means there is no way so far to use an internal GPS 
on windows 10? I have a user with a Samsung tablet/Windows 10 equipped 
with broadcom GNSS 4752 / Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) who 
is asking why it doesn't work like on Android or iOS...


When I try QGeoPositionInfoSource on my Windows 10 machine (no gps 
internal nor external), I see these messages in the console:

Available position sources: ("serialnmea", "geoclue")
serialnmea: No known GPS device found. Specify the COM port via 
QT_NMEA_SERIAL_PORT.
positioning method: All methods
minimum update interval (pos)= 1000
Failed to create Geoclue client interface. Geoclue error: 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected

Question 2: Does it means there is a way to use Geoclue on windows?

Thanks
Philippe Lelong



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