Re: [ALUG] Covid 19 app?

-- Christopher Dawkins Garnett's Corner, Jollyboys Lane North, Felsted, Dunmow, Essex. CM6 3DU 07816 821659 On Fri, 25 Sep 2020, 10:56 Steve Mynott, steve.mynott@gmail.com wrote: > It is open source MIT licence > > https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public/blob/master/LICENSE > > You would need to be running Google Play Services for the Google Apple > Exposure Notification API (which is optional) but removing the Play > Store probably wouldn't break it (although you would get no updates). > > You could keep an eye on https://microg.org/ to see if they add this API. > Also > https://pathcheck.org/a-new-open-source-solution-for-the-google-apple-exposu... > looks interesting. > > I'm running it on Lineageos with Play Store and Google Services installed. > > S > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020, 21:47 MJ Ray, mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:24:23 +0100 >> Simon Ransome simon@nosher.net wrote: >> >> > However, with requirements like "Google/Apple exposure notification >> > API", you might not have a lot of luck getting it to work in the >> > absence of things like GCM and the Play Services libraries (where >> > Google has craftily moved all the useful stuff out of AOSP over the >> > years), or a Google account (required for push messaging, if that's >> > how it works). >> >> That's my understanding too. Unless you've got the Exposure >> Notifications things showing in your Settings, then I doubt it would >> work - but I'd love to know for sure if anyone tests it on Lineage or >> similar and what it does. >> >> However, there are still problems like bluetooth really isn't designed >> for distance measurement (amongst other fun, it will underestimate >> distances outdoors which is the opposite of what's needed for covid) >> and that seems to mean the app effectively uses a different definition >> of "close contact" where being within "4m" of an infected person for >> 30mins will get you told to quarantine, leading to a false quarantine >> rate of between 30 and 45% in tests. So I'm really unsure that this >> app is a good thing, especially if people start taking it as gospel >> that no alert means no problem and no need to take care. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> >> MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ >> Member of http://www.software.coop/ (but this email is my personal view >> only) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> main@lists.alug.org.uk >> http://www.alug.org.uk/ >> https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main >> Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! >> > _______________________________________________ > main@lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! >