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Track location on device

Updates device location, the mycroft home location configuration remains unchanged

• gives you privacy (regarding mycroft.home)
• skills that need location still work ( date time and weather correct by default, unified new selects correct feed)
• fully configurable

Current localization sources:

• wifi geo - google geolocation service
• ip api - https://ipapi.co/json/
• local ip database - https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/

• "current location"
• "activate location tracking"
• "deactivate location tracking"
• "update location"
• "where am i"
• "location is wrong"

• use dialog files instead of hard coded speech
• use options in settingsmeta instead of text field (avoid user screw ups)
• more accurate sources (GPS)

wifi geolocation work better with lots of wifi access points, to scan for wifi networks it is required to use sudo

you need to edit your /etc/sudoers file and allow the wifi scan command to use sudo without password

sudo nano /etc/sudoers

# Add the following line at the bottom, replace "user" with your username ( pi, mycroft, ...)

user host = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/iwlist

change the skill settings to use sudo and accuracy should be much better

• ip address geolocation is unreliable, weather skill may be completely off for example
• if using proxy/vpn ip geolocation will be wrong
• if using multiple devices settings changes (not location data) will propagate via mycroft.home

• JarbasAI