Fenix 9 Sim: Crash on acquisitionType => Position.LOCATION_CONTINUOUS

Piligrim 1 day ago

Hello,

Just found that the simulator of Fenix 9 series is crashed when I tried to call function Position.enableLocationEvents with

options = {
    :acquisitionType => Position.LOCATION_CONTINUOUS
};

All other simulator versions accept this value, but this simulator doesn't accept. I use such value as default value for the cases when satellite mode is not selected by user. However, this issue break my algorithm.

Do somebody know if Garmin plan to stop supporting such constant? May be this is a bug inside the simulator?

Thank you

0 jim_m_58 1 day ago

What SDK are you using? You want to be using 9.2.0 right now. Are your device files up to date. What is the actual text from the crash.?

This works for me with the f9 devices:

Position.enableLocationEvents(Position.LOCATION_CONTINUOUS, method(:onPosition));

as does this:

Position.enableLocationEvents({

:acquisitionType => Position.LOCATION_CONTINUOUS,

:configuration => 255,

},method(:onPosition));

The constants for configuration of the f9 aren't in the current SDK, but they are coming.

See Brandon's comment here: Fenix 9 Position.CONFIGURATION_GPS_xxxxx not supported

0 scotts 1 day ago

I see the same behaviour. If you don;t specify a value for 'configuration' in the options then whatever it is defaulting to (probably Position.CONFIGURATION_GPS) is not supported by the F9 in the simulator.

Might be best to wait for the next SDK to drop to see how this is handled.

0 crispgarmin 1 day ago

Part of the problem is the example code, given by Garmin in the API reference for enableLocationEvents(), will cause this crash because it does not include the SAT_IQ configuration check in the if/else… hence ends without a configuration and a crash in the Sim at least. Do we know what happens IRL for apps that had auto-update for new devices? The documentation should be updated as I guess most (I did) people just copied the boilerplate (can’t find someone to tag)

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Position.html#enableLocationEvents-instance_function

0 Piligrim 1 day ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thank you for answer. I use SDK 9.2.0 and all device files are up to date. I see that the difference is that you provides :configuration paramter, but I don't provide it. All other devices don't require to provide :configuration value. That is the point. Fenix 9 shows different behaviour which is not compatible with other devices. Probably we need to wait new SDK, you are right.

0 Piligrim 1 day ago in reply to crispgarmin

It looks like after Fenix 9 the documentation requires update.

0 jim_m_58 1 day ago in reply to Piligrim

The doc as well as the SDK, per Brandon.ConnectIQ:

Fenix 9 Position.CONFIGURATION_GPS_xxxxx not supported