Re: GPS Software/Hardware

Lonny Selinger wrote:
> I've been doing a bit of searching on GPS *sutff* and was wondering if anyone
> has working configs they'd like to share (hardware/software). I took a look at
> Cumulus and Kflog but I was thinking more along the lines of North American
> street map type solutions.
> 
> I'll keep hunting but I really haven't found anything specific refering to
> Opie/Familiar and GPS. I do recall a couple of X type apps but one that works
> in Opie would be nice if it's possible :)

For Opie there is:

qpegps:
http://qpegps.sourceforge.net/index.html

roadmap:
http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net

> Any good experiences? ... bad ones? lol

Had some problems with gpsd, needed by all gps clients. There seems to 
be a number of different versions and forks around and not all of them 
work flawlessly. There is no gpsd in the current (0.8.4) feed, but an 
old version can be found at
http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/feeds/unstable/packages/armv4l

The version (fork?) bundled with gpsdrive works better for me:
http://www.gpsdrive.cc/download.shtml

After installing gpsd from the unstable feed I just took the binary gpsd 
from gpsdrive-1.32-arm.tar.gz and dropped it into /usr/sbin on the iPaq.

The syntax in the gpsdrive version is different. Type gpsd -h to see how 
to to start.

(I read somewhere, but can't find the message now, that some versions of 
  gpsd expect certain end-of-line chars (CRLF or just LF don't remember 
which) to be sent by the GPS and will wait forever if EOL does not match 
the expected.)

Some useful notes on setting up a bluetooth gps at:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~beakmyn/bluetooth%20Ipaq%203975.htm

Hopefully someone will provide updated binaries of gps utilities in the 
0.8.4 feed soon, gpsd, gpsdrive, qpegps, roadmap (+ kismet). Not easy to 
cross-compile them yourself.

Morten




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