Hello,
I’m currently having the issue when my app is running, the compass calibration screen pops up and the indoor location stops working.
I was wondering if there was a fix to this?
Hi!
Calibration window popping up often could be because of two reasons:
a) the surroundings are not “compass friendly” i.e. lot of cables, large amount of metal elements etc.
b) faulty magnetometer in phone
You can check b) by testing on a different device.
In case of a) it is impossible to circumnavigate in some of the settings. In such case I would advise to not use the orientation of the user at all i.e. use the Light navigation mode and turn off orientation
Is there a way to disable the compass calibration from appearing? I’d rather have it not appear and deal with interference from the surroundings in a different way. Why does the compass calibration appearing cause the indoor navigation to stop working? Thanks.
For iOS app - I have a work around for when the compass calibration appears while doing indoor navigation. In the AppDelegate.swift file, I use the “applicationDidBecomeActive(_ application: UIApplication)” callback function so that when I am done with the Compass Calibration, this callback function is called. In the callback function, I get an instance to my indoor navigation controller (navigationController.topViewController!.view.tag), I check to see if the controller is active by checking the view.tag of the controller. If the controller is active based on the view tag, then I call a function on my indoor navigation controller to stop/start monitoring and position updates for Estimote.
I did this because every time the Compass Calibration appeared, my indoor navigation would stop working. This allows it to keep working.