Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by cryptoz on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:18PM
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This was a major major major problem for me. Those silent Android updates are buggy in huge ways. One of them turned off the barometer until phone restart, throwing my startup into a panic as our core product (live barometer data from millions of contributing phones) went slowly dark for some mysterious unknown and scary reason. The data took weeks to return and that gap is lost forever.
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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by ddalex on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:53PM
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Do you have public data sets? Some live view? I'm interested to see live barometer data across a vast number of sensors.
Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by cryptoz on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:28PM
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We used to, the company is no longer active. It was really neat data. It was open source code, but it's now a few years out of date, and would maybe be a good idea to rewrite, modernize and bring a big barometer network back online.
On the individual scale, the sensor data was noisy, but in a dense environment with lots of sensors, the noise is identifiable and filterable to get solid pressure trends (actual pressure values is considerably harder).