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| phil_atkin |
Posted - 12/12/2021 : 16:49:08
I've just bought an Oudie N, which is an Android device. I want to try LK8000 on it - because that's what I'm used to. It's clear, however, that Naviter doesn't really want you to put other software on it because the normal way to do that would be through the Play Store - and the Oudie N doesn't have the Play Store installed...
Anyway, if you give the browser the 'Install unknown apps' permission, you can download the LK8000's APK (for example, from https://m.apkpure.com/lk8000/org.lk8000.beta- I wish there were a more secure place to find it) and it installs quite easily.
If you connect the Oudie N to a PC, its internal file structure becomes visible to the PC and you can easily copy map, airspace and other data into the normal locations for LK.
It seems that the appropriate setting for the internal GPS is 'Internal', because I see NMEA data arriving in the Terminal window when I select that device. However, so far I cannot get LK8000 to recognise the position data (it shows "GPS: No valid fix"). The GPRMC sentences show a 'V' flag, meaning invalid. When I use SeeYou intead, they show an 'A' flag, meaning valid.
Can anyone say whether LK8000 app will 'seed' the initial position estimate of the GPS engine, and so the initial search will take longer for each app? I would have expected that to be done at a lower level (i.e. by the system rather than the app), and SeeYou reports its position almost immediately now. |
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| Berto |
Posted - 30/04/2025 : 23:04:26
Has anyone had any success in this?
I resume this old post since I am trying to install LK8000 on Oudie N, but with no success.
I managed to download the .apk files from github but when double clicking on them with file manager or when opening them with Firefox I get the message: "There was a problem parsing the package." |
| brunotl |
Posted - 23/03/2022 : 16:58:42
you can try this version, this is the last using the xcsoar code to get gps data, so it could work...
https://github.com/LK8000/LK8000/releases/tag/7.0 |
| phil_atkin |
Posted - 13/02/2022 : 12:23:38
According to https://barbeau.medium.com/gpstest-uses-the-gps-provider-from-the-original-location-api-https-developer-android-com-referenc-30725538622d, GPSTest uses the "original location API" for its information rather than the "Google location services API" (which also considers information from cellular signals. So it's surprising (from my position of ignorance) that GPSTest sees nothing whereas XCSoar (reputedly) works. |
| phil_atkin |
Posted - 13/02/2022 : 12:09:45
quote:
Originally posted by brunotl
XCSoar use a "LocationListsner" https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationListener#onLocationChanged(android.location.Location)
The app's settings has a checkbox "Use GNSS APIs .. available on Android 7.0 and higher. If unchecked, will use the legacy GPSStatus.Listener". I tried both ways .. no response. |
| phil_atkin |
Posted - 13/02/2022 : 12:00:23
quote:
Originally posted by brunotl
to check the android GPS device, the best is : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.gpstest&hl=fr&gl=US
I've tried this, and found that it shows no (zero) satellites. I'm guessing that's not good... |
| brunotl |
Posted - 13/02/2022 : 11:56:30
XCSoar use a "LocationListsner" https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationListener#onLocationChanged(android.location.Location)
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| phil_atkin |
Posted - 13/02/2022 : 11:45:25
quote:
Originally posted by brunotl
XCSaor don't use nmea stream on android device ...
So - what _does_ it use? |
| brunotl |
Posted - 11/02/2022 : 11:25:09
to check the android GPS device, the best is : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.gpstest&hl=fr&gl=US |
| brunotl |
Posted - 10/02/2022 : 19:23:37
XCSaor don't use nmea stream on android device ... |
| phil_atkin |
Posted - 10/02/2022 : 16:33:28
I understand from a reputable source that "there are ways to access the GPS module in XC Soar and since LK 8000 is so similar, there are probably ways of accessing it from LK as well. I have no idea how or what you would have to do to setup LK, but I have heard of people using XC Soar successfully on Oudie N."
I can't see anything in the XCSoar repo that suggests they wrote any code specifically for this, so I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas? |
| brunotl |
Posted - 14/12/2021 : 00:14:04
the best place to get APK is the project repository :
beta : https://github.com/LK8000/LK8000/releases/tag/7.3.9
release : https://github.com/LK8000/LK8000/releases/tag/7.2.1
concerning position, LK8000 don't seed anything to GPS... |
| davesalmon |
Posted - 13/12/2021 : 11:40:51
Is it possible that it is due to the change some time ago as to where Android stores LK8000. On my phone it is in Android-data-org.lk8000.test. Then all the data is in -files I'm using the beta version. |
