Position and orientation almost never change and are wrong (ARKit mode)

Indoor Location
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Hello,

I’m currently working on an iOS application for AR-indoor navigation and I’m facing some issues with position and orientation updates. The below code shows a condensed version of the app with only the relevant parts. I’m using the Indoor SDK in the experimentalWithARKit mode to get position and orientation and print them. I mapped my location manually with the locationBuilder, which worked fine. The location has a size of 3.5m x 4.4m and I’m using 6 location beacons which I placed in chest height.

My problems are that even though I move around, position and orientation change very rarely and are mostly wrong. The indoorLocationManager function to update those values gets called quite often but the values just almost never change.

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When trying the Indoor Location App (in experimentalWithARKit mode with my location), everything works just fine and when using the built-in compass app, the orientation also shows correctly and updates regularly. So, I guess it must be my own application which is causing the bad results. I guess there is no chance of getting the source code of the Indoor Location App? :sweat_smile:

I’m using:

  • Indoor SDK 3.0.0
  • iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 12.0.1
  • Xcode 10 with Swift 4.2
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Hmm, everything looks fine at a first glance.

The experimental ARKit mode is, well, experimental :grin:, so maybe there’s some obscure bug in there. The Indoor Location app shares a lot of the code base with the Indoor Location SDK, but I think there are some differences, so maybe that’s why it works better in the app.

Does your own app have/requests the camera permission?

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Yeah, my app does have camera permission.

But I think I found the source of the problem:
I had an ARSCNView to show the current camera content. I tried to do that with:

self.sceneView.session.run(self.locationManager.arSession.configuration!)

As soon as I removed this line, everything worked as expected :blush:

Though, out of that results another question:
Since I want to build an AR-Navigation app, how can I display the current camera content of the ARSession of the LocationManager without losing the functionality of the AR navigation? I implemented a button to switch the displaying of the camera content on and off. As soon as I switch it on/off, navigation stops/starts to work properly.

Edit:
I think I got it right now. All I had to do was to put the following line before the above one:

self.sceneView.session = self.locationManager.arSession