geoclue-postgresql

A simple service to listen for geoclue events and log them to PostgreSQL.

Dependencies

In order to build this program, the GeoClue, GLib, and libpq development headers must be installed.

On Debian / Ubuntu, they are in the packages libgeoclue-2-dev, libglib2.0-dev, and libpq-dev, respectively:

$ sudo apt install libgeoclue-2-dev libglib2.0-dev libpq-dev

GeoClue service permission

In order for the application to have access to the GeoClue service, you must customize and install the desktop file:

$ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
$ cp geoclue-psql.desktop.template ~/.local/share/applications/geoclue-psql.desktop

Then, edit the file to set the full path of the executable.

Building

This project uses the CMake build system.

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Database

Create a PostgreSQL database, and run schema.sql.

For example, on Debian/Ubuntu, to prepare a database called geoclue:

$ sudo -u postgres createdb --owner=$(whoami) geoclue
$ psql geoclue < schema.sql

Running

The application looks at the DATABASE_URL environment variable, which should be a libpq connection string, such as postgres:///geoclue.

Copy the .env.template to .env, edit it, and source it:

$ cp .env.template .env
$ vim .env
$ source .env

Then, run the built program:

$ ./geoclue-psql