Random Notes

As my first OpenRepos release ever, Pitot is now available for download there. You can find it here.

This is just a temporary step to get the app available for people until it is accepted in Harbour, the Jolla app store.

Pitot -- my SailfishOS GPS/GLONASS speedometer app -- has reached a state where I'm confident to release it for others to use. You can download the RPM in the BitBucket repository.

Some screenshots showing the basic functionality below:

Some notes about the accuracy when using with the Jolla phone:

• It takes a long time to get a location when you are moving. This is due to the phone's GPS being pretty bad. I don't know of a way to alleviate it in the app.
• Jolla's speed readings come rounded to around 0.25 m/s. So for example when walking, the app will report 4.5 and 5.4 km/h but nothing in between. To my knowledge this cannot be changed from the app either.

The app is feature complete and I'll just wait until QtPositioning is allowed in Harbour to publish it. There's still one little problem, the font is really jagged and ugly. I tried following a Jolla employee's instructions in setting the text's renderType to Text.NativeRendering but it seems to have no effect. I'll take a better look at that later. (Also the logo is quite ugly, but I'm bad at graphics, so any help on that would be much appreciated!)

If you encounter any problems, I'd appreciate bug reports or even pull requests in the BitBucket repository!

My work laptop got its first sticker today -- a Code from Finland sticker. I think it's a nice idea of marketing that we do our work in Finland, employing Finnish people and boosting the domestic economy. Kind of akin to the Key Flag Symbol for other products.

You can check koodiasuomesta.fi for more info.

Disclaimer: I work for Vincit Oy, where the idea originated. But there's currently over 90 companies on board.

First post of undoubtedly many to come in my SailfishOS adventures. This time it's to tell about a small app I made during the weekend.

Pitot is a simple GPS/GLONASS speedometer for Sailfish. It will display the current speed of the device in big letters on the screen. It has a few different units, including kilometers per hour, meters per second, miles per hour and even knots.

It still needs some polish and a good smart cover. Also, it can't be released in the Jolla Harbour yet, since it uses QtPositioning to get the speed.

Having used it a couple of times, it seems that the Jolla phone's GPS is really terrible, though, since it takes ages to get a speed reading and when you do, the readings jump up and down even though your speed is constant. It also seems the resolution of the speed readings is too bad for trying to measure walking speed – I either get 4.5 or 5.4 kph, nothing in between.

Hopefully I get enough time to finish it next weekend. Now I'll have to be off to work!