placelab-users — A list for those building application that run on Place Lab

Re: [Placelab-users] Windows Mobile

[huxuke <xuk...@gm...>]

Sybren Stüvel <sybren <at> thirdtower.com> writes:

> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm planning on buying a PDA just for Place Lab. Which PDA would you
> guys reccommend? Besides running Place Lab I also want to run my own
> software on it, which should connect to a server using SSL, and
> reports its location every now and then. It doesn't have to do much,
> but I'd like to have enough capacity left so the PDA can be used as a
> PDA too.
> 
> I really hope someone can tell me which PDA to use, since I know
> nothing about them 
> 
> Greetings,


Hi Sybren Stüvel,

Have  you solved this problem? And now I Encountered the same problem.Could 
you share your solution? 
Thanks
                                               
                                         a college student of China

[Placelab-users] Which PDA can run placelab?

[xuke hu <xuk...@gm...>]

Hi folks,
I am a student of China University of Geosciences, now I plan to buy a PDA
that can run placelab, and maybe I have two solutions,one is that using the
PDA which list on ‘Place Lab Hardware Compatibility List’ ,such as iPaq
5450,5550iPaq h1940,Dell Axim X30. This solution turns out to be feasible,
however the PDA is so expensive that I can't afford.
Another is that buying a ordinary PDA without WIFI function,then I get a
extended WIFI wireless module from Manufacturers .The advantage of this
solution is that it's cheaper ,meanwhile the disadvantage is also
obvious,because I don't know if it is doable.So, anyone can give me the
answer?
I really hope someone can give me a few recommendations!
Greetings!

[Placelab-users] How to turn Stumbler output into a Map?

[Peter H. J. <pet...@gm...>]

Hi all, I came across a message in the placelab-users archive from James
Howard, I've included the text of his email at the end of my message. I'm
working on a project using Place Lab and I need to convert my stumble data
(gathered using the PlacelabStumblerGUI.sh script) to map data that I can
load using the MapLoaderGUI.sh, so I should be able to use the code in
org.placelabx.backend according to James's post, does anyone have the
database schema he refers to? Also any pointers on getting this to work
would be helpful. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and I have MySQL installed.
Thanks,
Peter.

*Re: [Placelab-users] How to turn Stumbler output into a Map?

From: James Howard <jamesh@cs...> - 2005-03-19 08:41

Well, placelab.org does some fancy things to try to place beacons
accurately. You can check out the software that it runs from cvs (it
is in org.placelabx.backend) and set up a mysql database and run it
yourself. This will give you the best results, particularly if you
have a lot of data, but it can be a pain to set up. Oh, also, the
schema for the database isn't in cvs. If you want to go this route,
let me know and I will send it to you.

Alternatively, you could write up a program that just takes the beacons
and jams them into the mapper. Here is a really brain-dead version of
such a program. I didn't really test it extensively, but it seems to
work. You could incorporate some of the ideas from
org.placelabx.backend into it to make it smarter.

- james*

[Placelab-users] problems using placelab

[omarjock <oma...@ya...>]

hello,
i'm a new user of placelab.
i'm facing a real problem; does placelab work in win vista 64 bits? i can't
install ndisplab driver for my wifi card. is there another ndisplab driver
for vista?
i really need help
thank you
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Re: [Placelab-users] problems using placelab

[pakkk1 <pak...@ho...>]

Hi, 

I had to install into XP. The documentation about these the second question
is poor...

Good Lucky with your program.



omarjock wrote:
> 
> hello,
> i'm a new user of placelab.
> i'm facing a real problem; does placelab work in win vista 64 bits? i
> can't install ndisplab driver for my wifi card. is there another ndisplab
> driver for vista?
> i really need help
> thank you
> 

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[Placelab-users] Exception on using RemoteDeviceHelper.getRSSI();

[Hina K. <hin...@gm...>]

public void deviceDiscovered(RemoteDevice device, DeviceClass devClass) {
        try {System.out.println("<<<<<<<<<<<"+
device.getFriendlyName(false));
          System.out.println("RSSI"+ RemoteDeviceHelper.readRSSI(device));

            Log.add("Device discovered: " + device.getFriendlyName(false));
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            //Logger.getLogger("global").log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }



on using the remoteDeviceHelper in bluecove 2.1.1 following exception
appears



com.intel.bluetooth.NotSupportedIOException: Not Supported on winsock
        at
com.intel.bluetooth.RemoteDeviceHelper.readRSSI(RemoteDeviceHelper.java:570)
        at
com.substanceofcode.bluetooth.BluetoothBrowser.deviceDiscovered(BluetoothBrowser.java:47)
        at
com.intel.bluetooth.BluetoothStackMicrosoft$3.runDeviceInquiry(BluetoothStackMicrosoft.java:423)
        at
com.intel.bluetooth.DeviceInquiryThread.run(DeviceInquiryThread.java:103)


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[Placelab-users] Working with S60 5.0

[Hina K. <hin...@gm...>]

there are few issues when I am trying to run RemoteGSMSpotterExample.
1. for installing the files on nokia pnone I have nokia 5530 with symbian
S60 v5 in the *placelab-phone-2.1\phone* *plpacelab-s60-dist* is insatlled
properly but on transferring *placelab.sis* or *placelab-autostart.sis* to
phone it says "installation not supported". and same goes for
placelab-phone-2.1\server\
PlacelabPhone_BluetoothServer.jar
*
*

*2.on installing placelab on phone the 4 applications are installed among
them one is GSMonBT on running this app it gives the ERROR: error happened:
GSMSpotter. query:outputstream not open.*


3. on running Place lab test on Phone it gives the error  Spotter Exception
. *Cannot open stream to native GSM Spotter.*
*
*
*Please help me out on this.*

*
*--
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Department of Computer Science & Engineering
UET, Lahore

[Placelab-users] Spotter

[Mohyeldin H. <moh...@gm...>]

Hello,

Am I bounded by the spotter types offered by Place Lab, Or can for
example create mySpotter which inherits from let's say synchronous or
asynchronous spotter.

Thanks,
Mohy

[Placelab-users] Wigle.net Query Output Format Change Has Broken MapLoader

[Bob C. <arc...@bo...>]

FYI....

A change made to the wigle.net Query output page during the past few  
months (prior to 09/01/09), has effectively broken MapLoader's ability  
to download AP Beacon data from wigle.net.

A new field, "lasttime", has been inserted between "firsttime" and  
"flags", causing "trilat" and "trilong" to be offset by one from their  
former relative positions in the output.

As a result, MapLoader reads latitude values as longitude, and "Y" or  
"N" as latitude.

MapLoader needs to be updated to account for this.

~Bob Curtiss

[Placelab-users] MapLoaderGUI -- Stopped Working?

[Bob C. <arc...@bo...>]

Hello,

I'm trying to use MapLoaderGUI to download beacon data from wigle.net.  
I was able to do this successfully a few months ago, however now I'm  
getting a silent failure -- and the hsqlmap.data file has a file size  
of zero bytes.

Has anyone else experienced this?

An admin at wigle.net has confirmed that they did make some changes to  
the format of their query results page during the past couple of  
months. Since MapLoaderGUI is essentially a "screen scraper", I  
suspect that the format change has resulted in this silent failure.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Bob Curtiss

[Placelab-users] Creating database

[<che...@si...>]

Hi,
    I'd like to know if I want to create my own database or add local beacons to the existing database, do I have to compile the Mapper source code with java programming?
Thanks

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[Placelab-users] ApViewer problems

[<che...@si...>]

 Hi, placelab team
      Now, I am doing my project: "WiFi Positioning".So I need the placelab to show the longitude and latitude of the beacons. I can run ApViewer and it can find different APs but dosen't show the estimated coordinates. I' ve read the documentation but I can't find how to create the database and which file should the database be in? Could you tell me the detailed steps? I am really anxious!

Thank you very much!

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[Placelab-users] ApViewer problems

[<che...@si...>]

 Hi, placelab team
    Now, I am doing  my project: "WiFi Positioning".So I need the placelab to show the longitude and latitude of the beacons. I can run ApViewer and  it can find different APs but dosen't show the estimated coordinates.  I' ve read the documentation but I can't find how to create the database and which file should the database be in? Could you tell me the detailed steps? I am really anxious!
Thank you very much!

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[Placelab-users] recompilation of spotter.dll

[<pak...@al...>]

Hi placelab team,

I'm doing a project for PC at my university and I have to modify MAX_APS
value(in spotter.dll) because there are a lot of Access Point (> 32).

Could you say me any documentation about compile the files?

I know that I have to use jni.c, org_placelab_spotter_WifiSpotter.h &
spotter.h. I have got Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2 and cygwin.


Thanks.

[Placelab-users] What is the best network card ?

[<pak...@al...>]

Hi, I'm interested about a network card for my end degree project with
Placelab.

Could you say me the specific card model of Orinoco or Cisco Aironet?

Thanks.

Re: [Placelab-users] Wifispotterexample returns "0 APs were seen"

[Eoghan F. <eog...@gm...>]

Pablo,

The Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG worked for me when running XP.  However it did
need some tweaking.  I don't know about Ubuntu, but on XP the Placelab NDIS
network protocol driver had to be installed before the spotter would work.
Instructions on its installation in windows can be found
here<http://www.nabble.com/placelab-td7243877.html>
.

I also edited the apviewer and mapdemo example to get them to run on
campus.  Simplest way of demonstrating its operation.

I hope it gives you less headaches than it gave me.
Adh mor,

Eoghan
University of Ulster


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Seamus Rooney <sea...@di...>wrote:

> Hi Pablo,
>
> The intel chipset from what i can remember is not that good for this.
> There is documentation in one of the papers on the place lab website
> about which wireless chipsets are best if i remember correctly.
>
> Seamus
>
> On 30 Jul 2008, at 13:15, Pablo Antunez wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The WifiPotterExample has returned "0 Aps were seen". I use Ubuntu
> > and my wifi card is "Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection".
> > Sould I do anything else?. Is it a problem with my wifi driver? How
> > could I resolve it?.
> >
> > My best Regards
> >
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Re: [Placelab-users] Wifispotterexample returns "0 APs were seen"

[Seamus R. <sea...@di...>]

Hi Pablo,

The intel chipset from what i can remember is not that good for this.  
There is documentation in one of the papers on the place lab website  
about which wireless chipsets are best if i remember correctly.

Seamus

On 30 Jul 2008, at 13:15, Pablo Antunez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The WifiPotterExample has returned "0 Aps were seen". I use Ubuntu  
> and my wifi card is "Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection".  
> Sould I do anything else?. Is it a problem with my wifi driver? How  
> could I resolve it?.
>
> My best Regards
>
> Pablo
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[Placelab-users] Wifispotterexample returns "0 APs were seen"

[Pablo A. <pa...@un...>]

Hi,

The WifiPotterExample has returned "0 Aps were seen". I use Ubuntu and my
wifi card is "Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection". Sould I do
anything else?. Is it a problem with my wifi driver? How could I resolve
it?.

My best Regards

Pablo

[Placelab-users] distribution of errors?

[Larry W. <lj...@gm...>]

did anyone ever calculate the error distribution of locations reported by
placelab?

is this published anywhere?

thanks.

[Placelab-users] Bluetooth stumbling on IPAQ?

[Ian F. <ian...@ci...>]

If this is a dumb newbie question, please excuse me, but I couldn't see 
the answer in the documentation.

Does the PocketPC/WIN-CE version of Placelab support Bluetooth 
stumbling?  In particular, when I run ApViewer should I expect to be 
able to see local bluetooth devices?


Thanks,


Ian

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[Placelab-users] bluetooth signal strength

[Kha T. <kha...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Could we get the bluetooth signal strength indicator as placelab can do with
wifi?

Many thanks,

Kha

Re: [Placelab-users] Phone Stumbling in S60 3er edition

[Timothy S. <ts...@cs...>]

Here's a link to the sourceforge CVS repository where the src for the
GSMSpotter is.
http://placelab.cvs.sourceforge.net/placelab/placelab/midpbuild/native/?hideattic=0


A brief description of how the API call works is here:
http://mikie.iki.fi/symbian/cellid.html

-Tim

On 8/9/07, Gabi <ga...@id...> wrote:
>
> Hello I was trying to do follow "Phone Stumbling HOWTO Guide" but I've
> found that the Servers application (placelab.sis), only work for the
> outdated S60 2.0 and does not installs in 3 edition series.
> I develop only in J2ME but if i can get the placelab.sis source code I
> could try to compile it to work in Series 60 3 edition.
>
> Please where can I find the sourcecode for placelab.sis? I've
> downloaded the S60 versions and source code of Java application is
> inside but I haven't found the C code of placelab.sis.
>
> Please tell me if somebody is porting to version 3, or if I can try to
> do it, what I have to do, (download the source code) and then I
> suppose than suscribe to developers list and get some help ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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[Placelab-users] Phone Stumbling in S60 3er edition

[Gabi <ga...@id...>]

Hello I was trying to do follow "Phone Stumbling HOWTO Guide" but I've
found that the Servers application (placelab.sis), only work for the
outdated S60 2.0 and does not installs in 3 edition series.
I develop only in J2ME but if i can get the placelab.sis source code I
could try to compile it to work in Series 60 3 edition.

Please where can I find the sourcecode for placelab.sis? I've
downloaded the S60 versions and source code of Java application is
inside but I haven't found the C code of placelab.sis.

Please tell me if somebody is porting to version 3, or if I can try to
do it, what I have to do, (download the source code) and then I
suppose than suscribe to developers list and get some help ;-)

Thanks in advance.

[Placelab-users] WiFiSpotterExample problems...

[Ong C. F. <C....@sp...>]

Hi All

I've just downloaded and started to explore PlaceLab. However, when I run
the "WiFiSpotterExample", I encountered the following error, i.e.
"Could not retrieve BSSIDs from the WiFi hardware. The supplied user buffer
is not valid for the requested operation". Anyone knows what maybe the
cause and also how to overcome the problem? Many thanks.

Rgds
Ong CF

[Placelab-users] OT: Invitation to participate in research project

[Ben A. <ben...@st...>]

Hello there

I would greatly appreciate a small amount of your time to assist with
my doctoral research at The University of Newcastle. The research
concerns open source licensing and we're seeking developers working on
Java projects. The research is supervised, ethics-approved, anonymous
and results will be freely available. Participation will also provide a
custom licensing report for your project. To learn more, please visit:

   http://licensing-research.newcastle.edu.au

Thanks for reading this email, and I hope you'll consider participating.

Best regards
Ben Alex

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