[Qgis-user] gpsd, howto?

[Nicklas Avén]

Yes I had the patched version ...

and if a change back/revert the patch applied in
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4050
... gpsd is working!


some general info

OS: Debian Squeeze 64bit
GPS Holux 236
connected with bluetooth /dev/rfcomm0
gpsd version 2.95
QGIS trunk 585e581



/Nicklas




On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 15:02 +0200, Nicklas Avén wrote:
> 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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