distanceFilter battery consumption
loicrob opened this issue · 1 comments
loicrob commented
Hi,
This is more a question than an Issue report, but I didn't know where to ask it, sorry if it is inappropriate.
For a Ionic app project, my teammate and I want to detect and record rides. To do so, for the moment, we use the Background Geolocation watcher of this plugin as follows:
- a watcher constantly enabled with a distance filter to detect the beginning of a new ride;
- a watcher (with no distance filter) enabled when the first one detects that a distance has been traveled to record the ride.
We noticed that the first watcher consumes battery, especially during the night (~30% consumed) and we were wondering if it would be a better way to constantly watch the accelerometer to detect new rides, in order to save battery.
Here are the questions:
- does the distance filter system already estimates the distance traveled using the accelerometer and/or gyroscope? (So it would be useless to implement our idea);
- do you think that our current system is a good practice? Else would you think about a better way to do it?
Thanks for helping,
Best regards
diachedelic commented