[SailfishDevel] QtLocation/Positioning Simulator plugin on Emulator

[Bob Jelica]

You could try feeding the PositionSource with an nmeaSource (pre-defined route etc.) in the meantime.

I agree tho, a way to simulate positions and stuff like that in the emulator would be really helpful.

//bob

On 29 dec 2013, at 17:36, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> In a thread I started yesterday titled "Boosted process (pid=721) was terminated due to signal 11" I reported that my app was crashing on calling startUpdates on a (missing) satelliteSource.
> 
> Further investigations indicate that this is because on the emulator there is no valid QGeoPositionInfoSourceFactory plugin with a satellite data source available.
> 
> Having poked around with the source examples on my development host, and goggled, I found this:
> 
> https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtlocation/source/9f58f8cbf859b2bc7225ee8e0c841200c72e47b4:src/plugins/position/simulator/
> 
> This would appear to be a simulator plugin, which should provide Position and Satellite info.
> 
> Has anyone experimented with this on the Sailfish Emulator? Presumably a separate app (GUI / Commandline) is required to feed it data, perhaps like the one from the Nokia Simulator:
> 
> http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtsimulator-1.1/simulator-location.html
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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