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whitelisted ssid not whitelisted
Indeed when enabling location the whitelisting works. Maybe the reason message is better "need location enabled for wifi whitelist check"?
Indeed, already being addressed: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/pull/87
Unfortunately (but arguably understandable) Google decided that getting a Wifi SSID allows you to look up your approximate location in various databases and therefore tied this to both the location permissions and the location setting. We already have a check for the permission not being granted, but checking the location setting would also be sensible. We should also add it as the reason instead of the misleading "not being whitelisted".
Indeed when enabling location the whitelisting works. Maybe the reason message is better "need location enabled for wifi whitelist check"?
Can confirm this. Using Android 9 with Syncthing Version 1.1.1.
Shall there be an option "Run now" apart from "Change settings" and "Exit"?
It should allow this particular Syncthing session until Wi-Fi is turned off (or some explicit user exit).
I'm wondering if this solution could be applied here to whitelist a SSID without the need for location.
@letkan: Quote from the answer: "From android 8.0 onwards we wont be getting SSID of the connected network unless GPS is turned on."
@capi I was referencing answer 9 and bellow it, "I tested this solution in "Pie" and it still working". My main concern is battery.
Ah, I see. Will try that out. But even if it works, I expect that loophole to be closed sooner or later. Google made it very clear that they consider SSID/BSID information to be location relevant. And they are not wrong about that. What we could do is to fallback to this attempt in case the permission was not granted and/or location is turned off. It would not make anything worse. I would not recommend using it for getting rid of the location permission.
I have this problem currently on miui v11 (android 10) with syncthing version 1.8.0. Location permission is granted.
It worked on 1.7.1 !!
I have location permissions granted to the app "all the time" including precise location, wifi on and connected to a whitelisted said, and have this problem with the latest version (1.20.1) on a pixel 5. Syncthing is always disabled in this situation. This feature does not appear to work correctly.
I have this problem on a phone (Asus Zenfone 8, running Android 12) on which 'location' is enabled and Syncthing has permission to access location data. Perhaps the problem is that I use dual band wifi (even though I whitelisted both the wifi networks at issue)?
Also: the feature whereby the app itself mentions prerequisites for using the whitelisting (at least when any such prerequisite is unmet) - has that been implemented yet, please?
Also, cf. #1775.
It does seem that part of the problem here is how Syncthing handles dual-band phones. Let me explain.
I was connected to two networks simultaneously and I visited Syncthing's 'run on specified networks' dialogue and only one of those two networks appeared as an option within the dialogue. Later, I revisited the dialogue; and this time both of my networks were shown. And, having selected both of those networks within the dialogue, Syncthing is, for the moment at least, working as it should. That is: I am connected to the two networks; the only-run-on-specified-networks option is on (and the aforementioned two networks the specified ones); and Syncthing is running.
A datum: today I was mostly away from home; my phone reports that Syncthing used some 12% of the phone's battery; that large battery drain would not occur were I able to use the whitelist feature; I cannot use the whitelist feature because as reported on this page that feature is broken!