Avare I/O Disconnects from BT

[proscllc]

I have a Huaweu Mate SE phone. It's internal gps is unreliable so I just got a Dual XGPS150 and dowloaded the SkyPro app to run that. The xgps150 finds satellites and enables mock gps and works with all my other gps apps... but when I open the Avare app, SkyPro stops/disconnects. Of course, Avare then has no gps signal. 1 out of 10 ten times the SkyPro app stays connected but Avare shows "no gps signal". Seems like I have a setting configured wrong?

Additionally I downloaded the ext I/O app. That will work in place of the SkyPro app, but only for about 30-60 seconds before it disconnects and Avare shows "no gps signal". The phone and the Dual stay paired until I open the I/O app. But I cannot keep the I/O app from disconnecting. Shows..."disconnected from BT device retrying to connect". Once it disconnects, the phone and the Dual unit pair. But by then it's too late and I have to start over by closing and reopening the apps... but nothing changes.

How do I keep the I/O app from disconnecting from the BT?  OR... How do I force Avare to use the mockGPS signal through the SkyPro app?

[proscllc]

Thanks for nothing.  No help or insight ever came... but in the interest of helping the next guy with this issue... here's an update.  I kept messing around with apps and settings.  The I/O app and the SkyPro app proved worthless.  So I downloaded an app called "Bluetooth GPS" and  configured it to connect to the XGPS150 and enabled it to be my Mock GPS Provider.  This fixed my problem and Avare is working well with this app, and stays connected to BT.

[John W SBA]

> Thanks for nothing. No help or insight ever came

Guess you're annoyed that none of the Apps4Av volunteers or paid
employees of the XGPS150 supply chain helped resolve the issue?

> in the interest of helping the next guy with this issue... here's an
update.

I'm glad you've taken the time to share the solution you found, because
it seems to me quite likely that there are others with an XGPS150 who
have encountered this issue.

> "Bluetooth GPS" and configured it to connect to the XGPS150

If you're referring to the free open source Apps4Av app with that name,
my understanding is it was originally intended for use with a secondary
Android device's GPS. It was so that someone with say, two Android
phones, could run Avare on a "primary" phone and put the secondary one
somewhere (glare shield for instance) with good view of the sky. The
GPS in that secondary one would then supply its GPS data to the primary
one via Bluetooth connection.

I'm impressed that you've figured out how to use this app for connecting
to the non-Android XGPS150! If you can provide any details on what
specific steps and settings you used to configure Avare and Bluetooth
GPS it might be helpful for anyone else with external GPS source
difficulties, especially a non-Android source and particularly the
XGPS150. Such details might also be helpful for any future work by the
Avare volunteer Dev Team to integrate that capability into the Avare app.