Bt-cam auto-connection approval for bluez and location-observe

store-requests privileged-interfaces
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Dear Snapcraft Team,

We are requesting auto-connection approval for the following interfaces for our Snap package bt-cam.

Name: bt-cam Description: bt-cam is a Bluetooth-based camera remote control application. It allows users to connect to Bluetooth-enabled cameras, remotely trigger them, and optionally geotag photos with location metadata. Snapcraft: Not publicly available Upstream: PRIVATE Upstream-relation: The snap is published by the upstream developer.

Interfaces:

bluez

  • request-type: auto-connection
  • reasoning: The bluez interface is required to discover and communicate with Bluetooth-enabled cameras. It enables the core functionality of the application—connecting to and remotely triggering camera devices.

location-observe

  • request-type: auto-connection
  • reasoning: The location-observe interface is used for geotagging captured photos with the user’s current location. This is a common feature in camera applications, providing contextual metadata that improves photo organization and user experience.

Both interfaces are essential to the app’s functionality, and their auto-connection aligns with user expectations for a Bluetooth camera companion tool.

Please let us know if any further information is needed.

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This request has not been added to the review queue. It should be placed in the appropriate store-requests subcategory using the subcategory template for classic-confinement, privileged-interfaces and aliases requests.

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This request has been added to the queue for review by the @reviewers team.

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Hey @navideck

I think the request makes sense for the snap expected functionality. Thus, +1 from me for (#voteFor) granting bt-cam auto-connection to bluez and location-observe interfaces

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+1 (#voteFor) from me as well as this makes sense for the snap (pending vetting)

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Voting period has ended. This request is approved with 2 votes for and 0 votes against.

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I will begin publisher vetting (#approve). Could you please provide your git account associated with the upstream project.

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@cav the code is not open source. We have a public repo for artifacts: GitHub - Navideck/BT-Cam

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hi @navideck - it seems the forum topic is incorrectly tagged with privileged-interfaces and we don’t need vetting!

I see that the current snap does not include the location-observe interface. Let me know once a revision is uploaded with this interface and I’ll go ahead and make it live

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that is my bad @navideck - I mistook the privileged interfaces to refer to super-privileged, you have tagged it correctly! apologies!

Request has been granted. This is now live.

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@cav I only got an email confirmation for “granted location-observe auto-connection as per …”. Did you forget bluez?

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Hey @navideck

Just granted bluez. This should be now live!

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@navideck - yes you are right! apologies for that. Thank you @jslarraz for fixing that up!