Hello!
One theory: If GPS is blocked and BlindSquare sees nearby wifi's + one of
the wifi's has been moved since its location was recorded --> This would
cause iPhone to give location far away.
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Dale Leavens <dleavens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ilkka, I very rarely put Blind Square into sleep mode. I did notice it did
go into sleep mode about the middle of last week when we were held up in
the bank getting some things done but otherwise I can't remember turning
that on in months. I don't particularly care about the music except that it
is unusual. I can only remember that happening a couple of times over a
year or more of use.
I am wondering if there is some sort of environmental anomaly we pass on
our walk. The particular area is very open and it only seems to happen to
reset on the second turn around the lake and thus the second time past this
point. The fact that recently Blind Square reports approaching one point
then the next one then jumping back to indicate approaching the first one
again before finally reporting the second one again closer than it had done
the first time. Maybe Blind Square perceives us running back and forth
between these points very quickly, points that aren't more than 50 meters
apart. Perhaps this is confusing the logic for the pedometer although again
the reset only happens on the second pass.
We are planning a brief trip to Florida mid to late March. There is a
walking trail we will want to use. We might find the pedometer a reasonable
way of judging when we return to our starting point, That is, walk out 45
minutes and how many kilometers that is then turn back and have some sense
when we are nearing our return point. Not of course if it arbitrarily
resets.
Cheers.
Dale Leavens.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Sunday, January 29, 2017 3:14 AM
*Subject:* [gps-talkusers] Re: Continued unusual behaviour of Blind
Square.
Hello!
About startup sound in launch: Are you sure BlindSquare is not in sleep
mode on background? If you launch it, it doesn't give startup sound.
I'll check code if there is (for some reason) time limit for pedometer.
Yes, there is logic that if you stay long enough on some place, then it
will reset it, but I think this is not true in your case.
Best, Ilkka/BlindSquare developer
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 2:47 AM, Dale Leavens <dleavens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Again today Blind Square reset the time/distance values at about the 1
hour mark. It seems to do it at about the same time, one hour and quite
possibly in the same place on the second time around the lake.
Today I nearly caught it, I slipped a foot off of the curb triggering the
shake function at 59 minutes and something like 4.7 kilometers. I tripped
on a chunk of ice moments later and triggered the shake again announcing
160 meters in 2 minutes.
Now at this location it is between Ninth and eighth Avenues where it also
announces Cote Lane. Over the past few days the location announcements have
gone a little funny there, it will announce a distance to Cote Lane then a
few meters later Eighth Ave. which is as it should be then it will again
announce Cote lane as if we were again approaching it although we have
passed it. Again then it announces Eighth Ave. It has done this for the
past three or four days. We have had cloudy weather but otherwise the GPS
seems to be fairly accurate as we go. It is around here though that the
distance time seems to reset. Again not every day but now about two in
three days. It had been doing that in the Spring but until about a month
ago this had stopped.
We seem to be fairly consistent in our speed, just under 5 kilometers per
hour, a little less in the winter, a little more in the summer. Surely
Blind Square can't think we are hopping in and out of a car!
The other thing that seems to happen about once a week is that the Blind
Square music doesn't play on start-up. Blind Square is about the only App
with opening music and the only one I open using Siri. Don't know why or if
this should matter but neither do I understand why what ever code that
triggers the music would not reliably run each and every time the App is
opened.So far I haven't associated this with the distance/time reset.
This is a month old iPhone 7 running iOS 10.2.Does anyone else out there
experience these behaviors?
Dale Leavens.