socket.access_points (1.9.4) has weird iapids

[jhb]

Hi *,

I am trying to understand how to best deal with only having one access point selection in my app (which does lots of urllib requests).

While doing that, I tried socket.access_points(). I get a list of 57 entries, with the following iapids:

[1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

(I did not show the ap names, for sake of privacy)

Now, why do some aps have individual numbers, and most have 0 as the iapid?

Cheers,

Joerg

[jhb]

(For selecting the access points only once, there is already a solution)

[ashwinurao]

Hi *,

I am trying to understand how to best deal with only having one access point selection in my app (which does lots of urllib requests).

While doing that, I tried socket.access_points(). I get a list of 57 entries, with the following iapids:

[1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

(I did not show the ap names, for sake of privacy)

Now, why do some aps have individual numbers, and most have 0 as the iapid?

Cheers,

Joerg

How many access points do you have defined on the phone? The entries with value other than zero are most certainly the ones which you can use to set as default access point.

[jhb]

How many access points do you have defined on the phone? The entries with value other than zero are most certainly the ones which you can use to set as default access point.

I actually have 57 access points, and the one (wifi) access point I am sitting next to at the moment has a value of 0. There seems to be no relation between 'within reach' and the value of the iapid.

Having been nomadic means I got around a lot ;-)

Thanks,
Joerg

[ashwinurao]

I actually have 57 access points, and the one (wifi) access point I am sitting next to at the moment has a value of 0. There seems to be no relation between 'within reach' and the value of the iapid.

Having been nomadic means I got around a lot ;-)

Thanks,
Joerg

So the ones with a value zero are the OutOfReach/Inactive access points. If I understood you correctly - If you come within range of a wifi access point the value still remains zero? Please do check if restarting the application and calling the API again will display the proper values. If not please log a bug in the tracker with all necessary details. Thanks.

[JOM]

I actually have 57 access points, and the one (wifi) access point I am sitting next to at the moment has a value of 0. There seems to be no relation between 'within reach' and the value of the iapid.

socket.access_points() should return a list of access point IDs. There is, or at least in C++, no relationship between access point ID and whether that AP is within reach. AP is just an entry in database.

Weird that you get zero as WLAN AP ID, but it is a little bit special case. Are you able to use it? In general zero is not a valid ID.

Cheers,

--jouni

[jhb]

Hi ashwinurao, JOM,

thanks for looking into the issue, and sorry for not replying earlier.

...If you come within range of a wifi access point the value still remains zero? ...

...Weird that you get zero as WLAN AP ID, but it is a little bit special case. Are you able to use it? ...--jouni

Basically yes, I can use the apo that has iapid 0. I filed a bug with a longer description for this problem.

Cheers,

Joerg