taupan
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AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
UPDATE:
Locale 1.4 includes significant improvements to the location detection system, reducing time to detect location changes by 20% while also improving battery usage by up to 50%.
The original goal of this request—reducing the delay of detecting location changes—has been met as Locale 1.4 detects location changes within an average of 4 minutes. We are therefore marking this request as completed.
Although this request is being marked as completed, we have ongoing research and development to keep improving the speed and efficiency of the location detection system further :).
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By design, Locale has no user-configurable options. The goal is that Locale should “just work” without requiring users to fiddle with various options that could negatively impact the operation of the app. For example, asking Locale to check location every minute could cause the battery to drain within 2 hours at which point you might miss the… more
taupan
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494 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
Actually, I think there’s a better way to organize this:
I’m marking this feature request as complete, as there are two ways currently to detect when the phone is in a car: a car dock condition or a Bluetooth condition, both of which are available now as plug-ins on the Android Market.
In order to have the votes correctly tallied, created a new request for a speed condition. If you want a speed condition, vote here:
http://feedback.twofortyfouram.com/forums/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/884809-speed-condition
taupan
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Detecting speed is only possible if you use gps, within limits. The accelerometer cannot detect speed, it detects acceleration. cell based location will cause huge jumps and bogus speeds. gps might not be reliable inside transportation other than a car (under the windshield).
I would like this but it seems very hard to me.
taupan
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313 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
Wi-Fi location training is now available as a feature in Locale 1.2. It can be found under the Menu of the Location condition.
We strongly discourage the use of third party location conditions or Wi-Fi conditions. These are less accurate and require more battery power. Instead, users should use the built-in Location condition and use Wi-Fi training if necessary.
taupan
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I have a similar idea:
How about increasing the polling frequency if you get closer to a target area? Let’s say the fastest you will probably go is around 200km/h (for the fastest passenger train you will actually use, since you can’t enable locale on a plane), which means you go 4 km in one minute. So if you’re 40km away, set detection frequency to 9 minutes, etc. Maximum speed assumption could be configurable for those who use faster or slower transport. Go down to 1 minute if you’re getting close.
I haven’t really thought this through, but maybe there’s a way to make this work.