[Qgis-user] gpsd, howto?

[Nicklas Avén]

Well, I found that the gpsd-problem is comming from this issue:
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4050

The workaround that Joseph Wolf is giving in the comments is working:
gpspipe -r | nc -l 5555

But as I said I am using fairly new trunk versions and the patch should
have been applied 9 months ago. I will take a look later if I really
have compiled from the patched version, but if so, there is still a
problem about raw -> NMEA conversion. 

Or can there be anything else healthy that gpspipe is applying to the
signal?

/Nicklas




On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 14:21 +0200, Nicklas Avén wrote:
> Hallo everybody
> 
> I am trying to get the gps working with QGIS.
> 
> I am using bluetooth gps, one android phone with extGPS and one Holux
> GPSlim 236
> 
> It is working (after some difficulties with file permissions) to connect
> directly to the serial port /dev/rfcomm0. 
> 
> I can also start gpsd and use it through FoxtrotGPS or see the result
> through gpsmon localhost:2947
> 
> But I have not succeeded to get the gpsd service as input to QGIS. I
> have not seen any documetation and the gpsd support in QGIS is mentioned
> very rarely on the net.
> 
> I have tried two different Ubuntu installations with QGIS master from
> nightly repositories and locally compiled on the other. And also one
> debian with locally compiled trunk.
> 
> 
> I also have another strange problem. As I said I can  connect from QGIS
> directly to the serial port, but on the version from the nightly
> repository the long lat position seems fixed. The altitude is changing
> as expected every second, but the long lat is a few hundred meters wrong
> and totally fixed. I cannot understand where that wrong position can be
> stored. I have restarted the computer used different gps. But on the
> debian box it works as expected and the gps-cursor is traveling around a
> small area as expected.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nicklas Avén
> 
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