Enabling automatic update of location with GPS (via gpsd service)

homepage/views.php

@@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ function copyOutput(elem) {
                      'sudo systemctl restart spectrogram_viewer.service',
                      'sudo systemctl disable --now spectrogram_viewer.service',
                      'sudo systemctl enable --now spectrogram_viewer.service',
+                     'sudo systemctl stop location_autoupdate.service',
+                     'sudo systemctl restart location_autoupdate.service',
+                     'sudo systemctl disable --now location_autoupdate.service',
+                     'sudo systemctl enable --now location_autoupdate.service',
                      'sudo systemctl enable '.get_service_mount_name().' && sudo reboot',
                      'sudo systemctl disable '.get_service_mount_name().' && sudo reboot',
                      'stop_core_services.sh',

scripts/install_services.sh

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ EOF
   systemctl enable birdnet_analysis.service
 }
 
-install_location_autoupdate() {
+install_location_autoupdate_service() {
   cat << EOF > $HOME/BirdNET-Pi/templates/location_autoupdate.service
 [Unit]
 Description=The gpsd based location autoupdate for BirdNET
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ ExecStart=$PYTHON_VIRTUAL_ENV /usr/local/bin/location_autoupdate.py
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
 EOF
   ln -sf $HOME/BirdNET-Pi/templates/location_autoupdate.service /usr/lib/systemd/system
-  systemctl enable location_autoupdate.service
 }
 
 create_necessary_dirs() {
@@ -436,6 +435,7 @@ install_services() {
   install_cleanup_cron
   install_weekly_cron
   increase_caddy_timeout
+  install_location_autoupdate_service # But does not enable, as it's experimental feature 
 
   create_necessary_dirs
   generate_BirdDB

scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh

@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ if ! [ -L /etc/avahi/services/http.service ];then
   systemctl restart avahi-daemon.service
 fi
 
+# Add location autoupdate service if it ain't there
+if ! [ -L /usr/lib/systemd/system/location_autoupdate.service ];then
+  # symbolic link does not work here, so just copy
+  ln -sf $HOME/BirdNET-Pi/templates/location_autoupdate.service /usr/lib/systemd/system
+fi
+
 if [ -L /usr/local/bin/analyze.py ];then
   rm -f /usr/local/bin/analyze.py
 fi