Precision of position gained via Tasker

Tapio shared this question ago

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Hi guys,

for usage in Tasker (I create a html file with my gps position as a Google Maps link), I get lat/lon via the Tasker plugin.

But what is the precision of the coordinates? It's a bit of a black box. Can I reach some more control? The typical things, a) minimum GPS precision in meters and b) use of wifi sources (it seems to use, which I do not want). Thx! Sometimes it gets the position very fast-it is then the exact same position.

Also, is there a documentation how I can get the variables with pure Tasker, ie no plugin? Like the action commands?

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Menion ●

Hello Tapio,

I think this is more a question to @Falco , developer of tasker add-on. I've added him to copy here, so I hope he gets this message.

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Falco ●

Hello Tapio, you could get any value from here:

https://github.com/asamm/locus-api/blob/master/locus-api-android/src/main/java/locus/api/android/features/periodicUpdates/UpdateContainer.kt

You could just wait , create a loop until gpsSatsUsed get a reasonable value.

my_accuracy does tell you precision and my_gps_fix tells you which time it was. gps_sat_used does tell you how many Satellites was used.

But I don't know what values are behind my_accuracy. Maybe it's the HDOP?

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Tapio ●

Hi Falco, thank you... as I already wrote per Mail, my question is obsolete, there's the native Tasker way. I wasn't aware that Taskers "Get Location v2" works just great on my unrooted device. There's already enough control in this one.

Thx also Menion.

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Falco ●

Action Tasks can not be used to get any data, these are designed to send something to locus.

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