Today Scope

[Ubuntu Touch] Today Scope doesn't display current location status

Bug #1575313 reported by Will Atwood
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Medium
Penk Chen
Today Scope
Triaged
Undecided
Kyle Nitzsche
unity-scopes-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Today scope doesn't display a users current location. It is confusing for the weather, sunrise and sunset information as it is not clear what location that is for. It came to my attention as I'm on corporate VPN and Today-Scope is proving information based on IP address, which for me, is thousands of kilometers away. My Aquaris M10 tablet is also inside so is not picking up GPS signal.

When I enable GPS only, Today-Scope still defaults back to IP address location data. Appears that there is no way to manually set location and when I set location in The Weather Channel app it defaults back to IP location when I switch back to Today-Scope.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Penk Chen (penk)
Penk Chen (penk)
Changed in today-scope:
assignee: nobody → Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)
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Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche) wrote :

Pretty sure this is not a scope implementation bug.

Scopes just get their location passed in from unity-scope-shell.

I notice that nearby scope shows the gps derived precise location, and that scope uses the same shared object as the today scope, so when an agg scope (today, nearby, news, photos) has it, it uses it.

Adding unity-scope-shell task.

Changed in today-scope:
status: New → Triaged
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Will Atwood (skyflyer) wrote :

To clarify for Frieze, the Nearby Scope picks up its location from either GPS or IP geolocation using unity-scope-shell even thought under "Location Settings>>Using GPS only" is selected? At least Nearby displays "Where am I" ... except for me the location data is incorrect (corporate VPN issue) and there is no way to custom modify location as far as I can tell.

This will lead to a situation where IP and GPS location data may not coincide and cause confusion in the scopes. If "Using GPS only" is selected with no gps data, then unity-scopes-shell shouldn't pass any location data to the scopes and instead should ask the user for current desired location.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-scopes-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Anupam (anupam207) wrote :

Bug #1577767 asks for an option to choose location manually

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Cesar Herrera (chg1) wrote :

I'd like to view in Today scope the place where I am. And may put manually coordinates or so of my place in order to see the weather correctly

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