This app is a manager for Mozilla Location Service offline packages for Sailfish OS.
When using this app deinstall all other mls offline packages from other users first! This software overrides this data otherwise.
This app uses the offline data from Mozilla Location Service. The data is licensed under Public Domain.
I had alread released some offline packages on OpenRepos.net but I realized keeping all of them up to date will be a very hard job. An other problem is the big package sizes, taking away a lot of ressources from OpenRepos.
So I decided to host my own repository with packages and create a manager app. And here we are...
All of this is only intended as a temporary solution until Jolla presents an alternative.
The main functionality is given (I hope) but code is a bit hacky at the moment. It needs to be improved in the future.
Updates with actual data will be released weekly (if possible).
I have created an automatic package creation pipline to make the job a bit easier for me.
At the moment 185 different countries are available. That should be almost all. If you need more let me know in comment section.
In order to make use of the offline data, the option "High-accuracy positioning" or at least "Battery saving mode" must be active in the location settings of Sailfish OS .
Packages with version >2021.02.10-1 the installation path is in "/home/.system/usr/share/geoclue-provider-mlsdb/". So no worry about size on ROOT partition. Thanks abranson for his suggestion.
Your language is not available? You are welcome to support this project by translating it on my self hosted Weblate server:
I want to thank Petr Tsymbarovich(osetr) for his work on Storeman. His code helped me to get an idea how to handle repositories.
https://github.com/black-sheep-dev/harbour-mlsmanager
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* Mon Apr 19 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.12-1 - Translation fixes - Build for aarch64 * Sun Mar 07 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.11-1 - Polish translation updated (thanks to atlochowski) - Show package version info in list * Wed Mar 03 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.10-1 - Add translation information with self hosted weblate server * Tue Mar 02 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.9-1 - Polish translation added (atlochowski) * Tue Mar 02 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.7-1 - Norwegian translation added (comradekingu) - Slovak translation added (okruhliak) * Fri Feb 19 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.6-1 - Add page busy indicator * Sat Feb 13 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.5-1 - Error notifications - Bugfixes * Thu Feb 11 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.4-1 - Fixed bug when install all available package updates - Fixed translations - Optimizations * Tue Feb 09 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.3-1 - Show progress of install / remove / update operation of package * Sun Feb 07 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.2-1 - Update notifications - Update all packages at once in pulley menu - Remorse timer for actions - No need to make a new version of this app when new country is available - Code cleanup and improvments * Sat Feb 06 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.1-1 - Added Russia (thanks to osetr again) * Sat Feb 06 2021 Black Sheep <blacksheep@nubecula.org> 0.1.0-1 - Intitial release
Comments
TMavica
Mon, 2021/04/19 - 19:39
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Maybe is in china
black_sheep_dev
Mon, 2021/04/19 - 19:57
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It should be included in China package, because it is in its bounding rect
TMavica
Mon, 2021/04/19 - 17:28
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I want aarch64 package
THX
black_sheep_dev
Mon, 2021/04/19 - 18:55
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And you get one! It is out but untested...
TMavica
Mon, 2021/04/19 - 19:37
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No Hong Kong?
glanternier
Thu, 2021/04/01 - 14:39
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Ok tanks !
glanternier
Wed, 2021/03/31 - 20:20
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What about usr/share/geoclue-providers? Should I delete that one too?
black_sheep_dev
Wed, 2021/03/31 - 20:47
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No! Only mlsdb!
glanternier
Wed, 2021/03/31 - 10:09
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Hello,
I have installed offline MLS packages before this app was released and would like to remove them now so I can instal this one.
Do you know where the files are stored?
black_sheep_dev
Wed, 2021/03/31 - 10:45
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Hi,
the files are in /usr/share/geoclue-provider-mlsdb
delocoyo
Mon, 2021/03/15 - 23:01
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I will write u bck tomorrow, cause now I have been moving and after uninstall the app I installed another mls app and got it to work. So now I have got the gps close where it shoild be, but dont know if it is cause it has had register the gps accurance from the other mls. I let uou know tmw. Thanks for your answer
delocoyo
Mon, 2021/03/15 - 17:53
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And the share location also doesnt works.
delocoyo
Mon, 2021/03/15 - 11:00
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The gps doesnt work at all in my xa2 when I have download the country where I am.
black_sheep_dev
Mon, 2021/03/15 - 19:13
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Hi,
thank you for your feedback...let's start to analyze your problem!
Some questions:
This software only provides offline data for Mozilla Location Service. This will not give you an accuarte fix at all, it only helps to get one. The accuary is several kilometers depending on the cell towers / data in your area.
I also have a XA2 and sometimes it get a real GPS fix in seconds and sometimes it will take a long time or even doesn't work at all. But this is related to the GPS / Hardware Adaption of XA2.
greatneon
Mon, 2021/03/01 - 11:38
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Hi @blak_sheep_dev. Thank you for this. I've installed it but I'm not sure if everything is working correctly. I've enabled High Accuracy Mode, under Location but I don't get gps fix as fast as one would expect (within seconds) I get it within minutes. Mobile data is enabled.
ls /home/.system/usr/share/geoclue-provider-mlsdb/
gives me: hr si
Any ideas? Should I remove these 2 directories and start over? I hope this will return obtaining agps to previous state when it got fix in seconds.
black_sheep_dev
Mon, 2021/03/01 - 15:11
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Hi, I don't know how good / complete the cell info is in Croatia and Slovenia. This data only helps to get a first inaccurate position, which should help to get a faster fix for regular GPS.. You can check if it works when you open GPSInfo or PureMaps and you get a horizontal accuracy. This can be several 1000 meters, depending on the cell tower information. For me with XA2 I dont get a GPS fix in 100% at all, but this is an other issue.
black_sheep_dev
Wed, 2021/02/17 - 05:03
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Ok. Fixed it. New offline packages are out.
ABreen
Wed, 2021/02/17 - 00:31
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That seems to work. At least at my current location
ABreen
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 11:10
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Thanks for the reply.
When I first tried using your mlsdb data I was able to get a quick location close to where I was located but not anymore.
Is the problem that there is two geoclue provider folders?
Otherwise do you have any other things for me to try?
Thank you
black_sheep_dev
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 20:43
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Hi there,
after some investigations, it seems to me that the problem is moving the mlsdb data to "/home/.system/usr/share/geoclue-provider-mlsdb" and create a symlink instead.
This I did some days ago and it seemed to work, unfortunatley not :-S.
Can you please do the following in console:
Then restart your device and look if it works again. In the meantime I will prepare new packages installing the data in system partition again, until I have a solution for that.
ABreen
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 05:46
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One thing I've noticed is each time I launch MLS Manager is that there is always a message saying "No offline packages available, check your internet connection " After a few seconds the list of offline packages is displayed with a tick mark by my downloaded packages.
Is the app operating correctly?
black_sheep_dev
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 06:00
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This is normal. At start i refresh the repo which takes some seconds. This can fail when you have no internet connection. This message is displayed when the list is empty. Maybe I replace this with an busy indicator on app start.
ABreen
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 05:39
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Those folders and links are there and there's 8 mlsdb.data files.
I note in the share/geoclue-providers folder there is two provider folders. geoclue-hybris.provider and geoclue-mlsdb.provider. Is the hybris option supposed to be there?
ABreen
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 05:13
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My country is New Zealand. High accuracy is turned on. I'll try uninstalling and re installing and have a look in that folder. Thanks
ABreen
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 04:20
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Something has happened recently which is preventing me getting an approximate location. It worked right at the start but doesn't appear to be working anymore. Xperia XA2 Sailfish 4.
black_sheep_dev
Tue, 2021/02/16 - 04:45
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For me it is working (germany). Which is your country? Did you try to deinstall and install the specific package? You should check if in "/usr/share/geoglue-provider-mlsdb" there is a symlink with your country code to "/home/.system/usr/share/geoclue-provider-mlsdb/", also with country code. Is this folder empty? There should be some mlsdb.data files in it e.g "1/mlsdb.data".
Is GPS turned on with high accuracy mode?
rob_k
Sat, 2021/02/13 - 18:49
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Thanks, black_sheep_dev! Earlier I installed it all manually; removed it all including geoclue-provider-mlsdb-tool before installing this app. I guess this should just work now. Or do I still need to geoclue-provider-mlsdb-tool?
black_sheep_dev
Sat, 2021/02/13 - 19:13
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You don't need the geoclue-provider-mlsdb-tool for this.
claustn
Sat, 2021/02/13 - 12:54
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I get No offline packages available. Check your internet connection. on Sailfish 3.3.0.16 on XA2. Just updated to the latest version of MLS 0.1.4
black_sheep_dev
Sat, 2021/02/13 - 19:14
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I didn't test is on 3.3.016. Did a previous version of MLS Manager work?
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