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wifi geo lookup

Darcy ThomasDarcy Thomas
edited November 2012 in Feature requests Vote Up6Vote Down
An android phone can work out where it is geographicly by looking up the SSID of the nearby wifi nodes, and dialing home to google's lookup tables/service.

Being able to report:
A. What wifi network the twine is currently on. and
B. The list of nearby wifi nodes (mac addresses, ssid) would enable something similar.

Thoughts guys?

Answers

  • 3 Comments sorted by Votes Date Added
  • Darcy ThomasDarcy Thomas
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    Also scheduled get/post requests to 'click' on the accept terms and conditions of public wifi AP would be useful too.
  • Gerry MuellerGerry Mueller
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    All that would be very nice, but Twine is a low power (both computationally and electrically) device that is designed to do some very limited things. Think how much y our phone would cost you if you didn't also buy into a data plan for usually 3 years; and think of how long your phone runs on its batteries, and then compare that to Twine's cost of around $100, and battery life of perhaps 25 to 30 days.
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