I have been trying to work on a GPS tracking system for an IoT device I’m developing. I am using an ESP32 as a host controller and I have been using an external GPS set up on the Notecard’s AUX pins. Today, I noticed that when I had the GPS in periodic mode (seconds were set to 360), the GPS was turning on much more often than every 6 minutes, even if the device was kept still.
I found that the GPS turning on coincided with when I was calling the “card.location” request from the host. I was under the impression that the “card.location” request simply responds with the Notecard’s most recent GPS values. However, now it seems to me that the “card.location” request overrides the GPS’s periodic interval and turns on the GPS to get a new updated location.
Is this true?
If so, is there a way to pass the most recent GPS data (including “time” and geofence “area” fields) to the host without collecting a new location?
If I were to get a new location, that would mess with whether the device is seen to be inside or outside of the geofence.
Cheers,
Nathan