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Cannot get geolocation to work (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by hyveltjuven@lemmy.world to c/nix@programming.dev

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Hi, new NixOS user here.

Liking it so far but just hit an issue that I'm having trouble getting past. Pages in firefox cannot access my geolocation, even after I hit allow when the page asks for permission. Same with the default Gnome maps app, it just places me in a central location of my countrys capital (I don't live in the capital).

I've added the following to my configuration.nix file and rebuilt but it made no difference.

 # Geolocation
  services.geoclue2.enable = true;

  environment.sessionVariables = {
    # Allows geolocation in firefox
    MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND = "1"; 
  };

What am I missing?

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[–] Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 5 months ago

GeoIP is the last way. Before that, geoclue will try to locate using found Wi-Fi and Cell towers via beacondb.net (via Mozilla Location Service before it shut down). If beacondb.net return fail or (0, 0), it try GeoIP at last.