<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It's still wierd, but at least I have something I can use.</div><div><br></div><div>gpsmon and xgps all say that the two gps are connected and transmit meaningful data on both laptops. </div><div><br></div><div>On one computer QGIS finds the gps, on the other it doesn't. <br><br>-ramon.</div><div><br>On 18 Mar 2015, at 9:56, Brent Wood <<a href="mailto:pcreso@pcreso.com">pcreso@pcreso.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253087" dir="ltr">Glad it helped - you should also try gpsmon for looking at the GPS data...<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253079"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253086" dir="ltr"><span>Cheers,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253100" dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253085" dir="ltr"><span> Brent</span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253016" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253015" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253014" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253054" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253017" face="Arial" size="2"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253078"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253077" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ramon Andiñach <<a href="mailto:custard@westnet.com.au">custard@westnet.com.au</a>><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253076"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253075" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-user List <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:27 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253056"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253055" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] live tracking problem<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_253057" class="y_msg_container"><br>An update. <br>I have gpsd (functionally) running on the newer laptop, and talking to QGIS. So thanks for pointing me toward that. <br><br>The older one, no such luck. Maybe it's time it was retired anyway.<br><br>-ramon.<br><br>> On 18 Mar 2015, at 6:33, Ramon Andiñach <<a ymailto="mailto:custard@westnet.com.au" href="mailto:custard@westnet.com.au">custard@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>>> On 18/03/2015, at 04:42 , Brent Wood wrote:<br>>> <br>>> Hmmm... Using a cheap generic USB GPS with QGIS 2.8.1 on Mint 64 bit (Ubuntu LTS) Dell laptop, it all works perfectly - gpsd is installed, running as a daemon & I can use gpsmon to view the NMEA strings, and data, & QGIS picks it up immediately with autodetect on & clicking "Connect".<br>>> <br>>> Open a new shapefile, make it editable and you can save the cached GPS track to the shapefile. Edit teh linestrings in teh shapefile and you can create the enclosed polygons...<br>>> <br>>> dmesg shows the GPS being connected & eveything works just as it should??<br>>> <br>>> Which may not help you, but suggests the combination of QGIS/GPS/Mint is a viable one.<br>> <br>> Thanks Brent,<br>> <br>> It helps a bit.<br>> <br>> Yes, because it suggests that QGIS/GPS/Mint/*gpsd* is viable.<br>> My previous experiments with gpsd have been abortive because I've been able to get everything except QGIS to connect to the gpsd, and while I've found plenty on how to setup gpsd, I've never found anything (useful to me) on troubleshooting it.<br>> <br>> And no, because it doesn't help with why something that was working isn't now.<br>> Because I've never got gpsd working happily, I've just been letting QGIS connect by finding the correct socket to connect to using autodetect. ATM, to me, it's almost like QGIS isn't looking at the sockets at all.<br>> <br>> So maybe it's time to have another go at making gpsd work. <br>> I'll take suggestions, particularly on troubleshooting.<br>> <br>> -ramon.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Qgis-user mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></blockquote></body></html>