[FSO] GSM LAC Cell ID of surrounding networks

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 05:38 +0100 schrieb Sascha Wessel:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:13:05PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > > so far using the DBus API for reading current GSM LAC and Cell ID I am
> > > connect to works.
> > >
> > > * is it possible to see LAC and Cell IDs of *all* signals I see?
> > 
> > Only through proprietary commands and even then I'm not sure whether the 
> > additional properties you receive contain the real LAC and CIDs.
> > 
> > Reference Implementation of the necessary additional dbus APIs are pending a 
> > patch which no one did write yet (please see archives of 
> > smartphones-standards, this issue has been discussed).
> > 
> > Patches for the %EM commands welcome.
> > 
> > > if not
> > > * is it possible to see the LAC and Cell IDs of all the signals I see,
> > > which belong to the network I am connected to?
> > 
> > Minus proprietary commands (see above), the GSM standard only includes LACs 
> > and CIDs in unsolicited +CREG messages.
> 
> 
> I attached a quick and dirty hack for DebugCommand("AT%EM=2,3\r\n").

Thanks. I just added org.freesmartphone.GSM.Monitor and am working on
the TI Calypso implementation for GetServingCellInformation() and
GetNeighbourCellInformation().

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