@zeethree50 you may want to take a look at this weather example regarding how they use the device's GPS to know current position...

@raven-worx OK, thanks. That seems to work.

@morte said in detecting status ("on"/"off") of location services: This is brobably Qt bug I'd call it working as designed, although the design could differ from your expectations :-) Seriuosly, I guess you can post a feature request to ask for the error status to be cleared once positioning data resumes. For the time being, I guess you need to stop checking for error status once you resume receiving data, or you could even emit a signal of your own once you know data is back again.

You're welcome ! I'm pretty sure not all these packages are necessary but at least you have it working now :)

Thanks a lot :)

I am also trying to write a minimal qml app that uses the built in GPS to retrieve current position. I am not sure if I can use Qt positioning or if I should just parse the raw output of the GPS myself, like the OP did here, and extract the position manually. It seems very dirty to do it that way, I thought there would be a nice API in QML that I could use. Anyone can point to a simple example?

@Wieland Thank you for testing :) I've done a bugreport: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53046

@qtacc32 If you're still struggling with this if possible try sharing a real piece of the code. It might be something trivial that doesn't show up in the example (which looks fine). Or at least a MWE that reproduces the problem, since I could not run your example, since it's not complete. Kind regards.

Has any one experienced the same problem ? Any idea of a possible workaround ? Thanks for your help.