[Qgis-user] Connecting QGIS to an Android GPS

[Pedro Venâncio]

Hi Paolo,

I've no problem to connect an Android phone (Nexus 4) to a Linux Mint /
Ubuntu laptop, both with ShareGPS [0] or GPS over BT [1] apps.

For instance, for ShareGPS, Add a new connection, Type standard NMEA
format, connection over bluetooth, auto find and connect to the laptop
bluetooth. Then click on 'bluetooth icon' on ShareGPS, to make the
smartphone visible to others by 180 seconds, and on laptop (where I've gpsd
deamon running), the steps are exactly the ones pointed by Richard:

$ hcitool scan
    (here you will get the MAC address - xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)


$ sdptool records xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

In your case the answer is:

    Service Name: ShareGPS
    Service RecHandle: 0x10011
    Service Class ID List:
      "Serial Port" (0x1101)
    Protocol Descriptor List:
      "L2CAP" (0x0100)
      "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
        Channel: 2

So, you do:

$ sudo rfcomm bind 0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2

and you will get the /dev/rfcomm0.

Then run QGIS with root, and connect GPS to /dev/rfcomm0.

It is working fine here.

Best regards,
Pedro Venâncio


[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jillybunch.shareGPS
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Saenko.GpsOverBt



2016-12-26 8:06 GMT+00:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:

> Il 25/12/2016 11:06, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:
>
> > I did fiddle around a little with a bluetooth dongle some time ago:
> >
> > http://zuidt.nl/blog/html/2014/06/12/use_your_gps_dongle_with_qgis.html
> >
> > not sure if it is of use though.
>
> Thanks Richard. I do not have particular problems with GPS loggers; what
> I'm finding difficult is connecting to an Android phone.
> Thanks anybody for hints.
> All the best.
>
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