Permission Required error for Toybox.Position

onStart() is also called when a background process starts, so what you are seeing is the background process is complaining (you can't start GPS in a background process),  If you do have a background process, try moving the line you indicated to getInitalView(), or if you don't have a background process, uncheck that permission.

Thank you for this!  I've moved it into the getInitialView() function and has taken care of the error I was seeing.  I'll undergo a batch of testing - but initially it's looking good.

Do you have a background process?  If not, you'll still want to turn off the background permission.

I run into the same problem. I want to let users know what GPS quality is, ranging from "no fix", "poor" to "excellent"

I have this in my getInitialView() function:

//! Return the initial view of your application here
	function getInitialView() {
		if(Toybox.System has :ServiceDelegate) {
			Background.registerForTemporalEvent(new Time.Duration(5 * 60));
		}
		Position.enableLocationEvents(Position.LOCATION_CONTINUOUS, method(:onPosition));
   	return [ new DeviceView() ];
	}

	function onBackgroundData(data) {
		temp=data;
		Storage.setValue("mytemp", temp);	
	}

	function getServiceDelegate(){
		return [new TempBgServiceDelegate()];
	}
}

However, I get a permission error as well, although I have added <iq:uses-permission id="Positioning"/> in the manifest file:

Error: Permission Required
Details: Permission for module 'Toybox.Position' required
Stack:
  - getInitialView() at C:\Users\Joop\git\DR8-10c0\DR8-10c0\source\DatarunpremiumView.mc:21 0x100000e0

Has this functionality changed in the mean time?

What type of app and which target devices?

Datafield, target is Fenix 5s plus

GHG23 said:

I want to let users know what GPS quality is, ranging from "no fix", "poor" to "excellent"

Since this is a data field, can you use ActivityInfo.currentLocationAccuracy instead?

In a DF you cant's start GPS even with Position permission. (Position.enableLocationEvents(Position.LOCATION_CONTINUOUS, method(:onPosition));).

Looks to me it caught a long time error.  If you want the GPS quality just use currentLocationAccuracy. from Activity.getActivityInfo() (the info that is passed to compute)

Yes, that would do as well. Strange that I didn't find this as an option in the docs

Thanks, with your suggestion and the one from Flowstate I have the input to fix this!