[Qgis-user] Live GPS Tracking not working

[Steve Jones]

Hello, I have a Garmin 62s. I have not been able to get Live GPS Tracking to work. 



I tested my unit, gpsmon indicates that gpsd is functioning properly (see GPSMON OUTPUT below for screen output). 


If I run qgis as root, I get a series of messages in my xterm window (see QGIS XTERM OUTPUT).

However, when I attempt to create a live tracking connection in qgis via gpsd (host: localhost, port: 2947, device /dev/ttyUSB0) no gps information is displayed. 


I have also tried to 


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GPSMON OUTPUT 

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localhost:2947:               Garmin Serial binary>
Time: 2012-05-21T23:47:00.000Z                                                  ":6,
┌─── Position ───┐┌──── Satellite
 ──────┐                                       tivated"
│ Fix: no fix    ││Ch PRN  Az El  SNR ST│                                       "1113: 3
│ Lat:  43.67969°││ 0   7 175 62 16.7 15│
│ Lon:  -79.35159││ 1  19  52 49 17.5 15│                                       alse,"ti
│
 Alt:    131.09m││ 2   8 297 66 21.8 15│
│ Speed:   0.0m/s││ 3  11 128 55 21.1 15│
│ Climb:   0.0m/s││ 4   1 146 38 -1.0 14│
│ Leap: 15sec    ││ 5   3  58 14 -1.0 14│
│ epe:    nanm   ││ 6   6  55  3 -1.0 14│
│ eph:    nanm   ││ 7  13 199  4 -1.0 14│
│ epv:    nanm   ││ 8  17 232 14 -1.0 14│
└── ID 51 (0x33) ┘│ 9  26 309 19 -1.0 14│
                  │10  28 292 34 -1.0 14│
                  │11 255   0  0  0.0 
 0│
                  └─── ID 114 (0x72) ───┘
edcaa3abbd28f6bf0000000000000000000000009f4211420f00f01f0000321003
SAT 0x72=(90) 1072540788063eaf001513d40631340015088508422901150b3e0837800015019cff269200
14039cff0e3a0014069cff033700140d9cff04c70014119cff0ee800141a9cff133501141c9cff22240114ff
000000000000581003
PVT 0x33=(70) 103340668abd4212613542d48c5e422a3c0f420100000000005803054186e016033565e83f
edcaa3abbd28f6bf0000000000000000000000009f4211420f00f01f00002a1003

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QGIS XTERM OUTPUT
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(process:6364): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Did not
 receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(process:6364): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(process:6364): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Warning: QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.
Warning: Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are
 supported
Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
Warning: loading of qt translation failed [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]

(process:6364): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Python support ENABLED :-) 
Loaded : fTools (package: fTools)
Loaded : Plugin Installer (package: plugin_installer)
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