[pskmail] Re: gpsd, problems

  • From: "David Vrona" <dave@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:25:29 +0000

This seems to invoke gpsd -p but it does not specify the port like:

gpsd -p /dev/....

It does not work but I do have gpsd already running in the bacground on
/dev/rfcomm0

I found the -p option during some google searching on using bluetooth gps
units.  I tried it and it worked great with gpsdrive so I really didn't
investigate it any further.

Can you tell me more about gpsd in terms of your program?  Are you trying to
invoke gpsd?

On 3/2/07, Rein Couperus <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

man gpsd does not show the option 'gpsd -p', so I did no include it.

Try this version of arq.pm, which does...

If you can telnet to gpsd it will work (use the 'o' command to check.
See 'man gpsd'

Rein EA/PA0R/P

Q: where did you find the -p option? why not start gpsd with -f or just
gpsd /dev/xxx?




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> Betreff: [pskmail] Re: gpsd, problems

For what it's worth.  This is what I am doing with my _working_ gpsdrive
setup on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10
>
> sudo rfcomm bind /dev/rfcomm0 00:02:C7:2B:7A:1F
>
> This binds the port to the bluetooth GPS; note the hardware address for
the GPS.
>
>
> Then you can do this to see the GPS sentences:
>
> cat /dev/rfcomm0 count=5
>
> And finally, to setup gpsd:
>
> gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm0
>
> I hope this is useful.  But, this only results in gpsdrive working for
me.  I cannot get my position with the pskmail client.
>
>
> Dave
> n9qnz
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/27/07, Per Crusefalk <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, gpsdrive+gpsd works fine here too. I wonder how they use gpsd, if I
> telnet to it I only get 'GPSD' and no data but gpsdrive works. Strange.
> Thanks for copying it to their list, will be interesting to see any
>
> response.
>
> As a fallback I have built a simple thing in perl that gets the data
> from the gps and I am now interfacing that with pskmail. It works and
> its uses 0% cpu (according to top) :-).
>
> Ok on the bluetooth adapter, I have a d-link adapter here somewhere and
>
> that worked right away (plug n play) with mandriva. You could try the
> live distro and see if that works any different than puppy.
>
> 73 de Per, sm0rwo
>
> tis 2007-02-27 klockan 08:35 -0500 skrev kd4e:
> > gpsdrive with gpsd opens up OK under Puppy Linux 2.13
> > and 2.14 but since I am having difficult getting my
> > USB-Bluetooth adapter working I have been unable to
> > test it with my Bluetooth GPS!  :-(
> >
> > I have copied the gpsd and gpsdrive lists in hopes
>
> > someone there can assist you.
> >
> > > I have almost worked through the night to get gpsd to work on
mandriva
> > > without success. I hope its just me and perhaps I have made a
mistake
> > > somewhere but I can not get gpsd to do anything. When I launch it
from
>
> > > within gpsdrive it works fine but if I launch it in any other way
> > > (including hotplug) it just does not work.
> > >
> > > I did notice that novell/suse may drop gpsd from the distro
completely:
>
> > > http://blog.cynapses.org/2006/06/05/gpd-gdal-and-gpsdrive/
> > >
> > > Slackware has problems:
> > >
>
http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.hardware.gps.gpsd.user/2005-12/msg00003.html
> > >
> > > Gentoo has a bug very similar to what I experience:
> > >
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132288
> > >
> > > But, I hope these are just some simple bugs. Also, none of the
mentioned
> > > fixes worked for mandriva. So, has anyone (apart from Rein
> > > naturally ;-)) gotten gpsd to work ? On some other distro than
> > > ubuntu/debian ? I am just about to give up on gpsd and start writing
> > > something from scratch. But, I hope I wont have to.
> > >
> > > 73 de Per, sm0rwo
> >
> >
>
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