Problem with indoor locations using iodéOS

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Hello,

I am using iodéOS on my Fairphone 4 and I experience the problem that the FP4 is not able to find locations when I am indoor (house, mall, …). I would expect that the microG services are able to offer Wifi-based and cell-based locations but it does not seem to work.

Is this a known issue?

I found: Mozilla Location Service is retiring · Issue #2237 · microg/GmsCore · GitHub

I sounds as if MicroG only uses GPS and does not have a “helper”-service anymore. Could this be the problem?

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I’m using this: https://beacondb.net/

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Thank you very much.
It seems to work quite well.

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The latest microG beta release (0.3.3…240913) allows use of either positon or beacondb as the 'online location service. I’ve been using positon fr a while, with no problems

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What does “position” mean in this case? A local database of last locations and wifi networks?

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It’s the Positon location service - see https://positon.xyz/ - an alternative to the defunct Mozilla system or the beacondb.net service mentioned above