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hussam

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[solved] Geolocation only works for a few minutes after wifi connects.

I have an issue where geolocation (using geoclue, firefox, etc...) only works for 60 seconds or so after connecting to wifi.
Then it stops working.
To make it work again, I have to disconnect and reconnect to my router.
This is not an issue on my windows10 computer and only happens on my linux machine.

when it is broken, where-am-i says:

Client object: /org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/28

New location:
Latitude:    33.874000°
Longitude:   35.508900°
Accuracy:    25000.000000 meters
Timestamp:   Fri 17 Apr 2020 05:38:08 PM EEST (1587134288 seconds since the Epoch)

But when it works, it says:

New location:
Latitude:    33.896356°
Longitude:   35.531166°
Accuracy:    15.001557 meters
Speed:       0.000000 meters/second
Heading:     90.000000°
Timestamp:   Fri 17 Apr 2020 05:39:42 PM EEST (1587134382 seconds since the Epoch)

Any ideas how I can fix this? I am using networkmanager with wpa_supplicant.

Edit: Ok, I figured it out. Periodic auto-scan wasn't kicking in in networkmanager. I fixed that and it now works.

Last edited by hussam (2020-04-17 16:31:47)