[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #2786: Live GPS tracking: add support for garmin USB devices

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#2786: Live GPS  tracking: add support for garmin USB devices
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   Reporter:  dr                                |              Owner:  mhugent      
       Type:  bug                               |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.6.0
  Component:  C++ Plugins                       |            Version:  Trunk        
   Keywords:  gps,tracking                      |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  All                               |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  1                                 |  
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Comment(by jef):

 Replying to [comment:18 lutra]:
 > Ok, I see now the kind of possibilities that gpsd offers, but I still
 cannot make it work. I checked the gpsd docs and a few other tutorials so
 I'm sure I'm missing something (tested also with xgps). Can you give any
 insight? I'm sure this will be useful too for the future 1.6
 documentation.

 Getting the hcx to work with ''GPSD'' was relatively easy.  Loading the
 {{{garmin_gps}}} kernel module with {{{modprobe}}} created a
 {{{/dev/ttyUSB}}}''n'', which could be accessed with ''gpsd''.   Both
 ''xgps'' and ''qgis'' could in turn access ''gpsd'' on host
 {{{localhost}}} on port {{{2947}}}.

 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1022921 suggest that accessing
 the 60c should be as easy.

 > Nevertheless I hope there will room to add the support for garmin usb
 devices as in the gps tools, it will be more straightforward for direct
 gps-to-qgis connections.

 The ''gps tools'' also only interfaces with {{{gpsbabel}}} and doesn't
 directly access any GPS devices.  I don't think we should duplicate the
 efforts of ''GPSD'' and/or ''gpsbabel''.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2786#comment:20>
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