[Qgis-user] live tracking problem

[Brent Wood]

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".
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...

dmesg shows the GPS being connected & eveything works just as it should??
Which may not help you, but suggests the combination of QGIS/GPS/Mint is a viable one.
Brent Wood



      From: Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au>
 To: qgis-user List <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:50 AM
 Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] live tracking problem
   
Just in case I have not been clear.

1. My problem is with live tracking, not loading gpx files.

2. These gps were working in 2.6 (and earlier) for this task on these computers.

-ramon.

On 17/03/2015, at 21:06 , Ramon Andiñach wrote:

> I have the same symptom set for builds of both 2.8 ltr and master,
> 
> so if anyone has suggestions, I'd be appreciative!
> 
> (the windows box is too big to carry around, in case that gets suggested...)
> 
> -ramon.
> On 17/03/2015, at 18:42 , Ramon Andiñach wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I wondered if anyone had seen something like this?
>> 
>> I have 2 mint17 (ubuntu14.04) installs that both are failing to connect to either of my gps.
>> 
>> The gps are connecting and are being assigned a port.
>> I can observe communications.
>> I can use gpsbabel to access data on them.
>> (So I think the operating system is communicating with them fine)
>> 
>> If I try to connect them inside QGIS, after a 2 second wait (which is really, really short) QGIS tells me that it failed to connect to the gps.
>> I can not see any further information in the log or on the terminal.
>> There is no sign in the terminal that QGIS actually looked (in previous versions I can see which ports QGIS is trying in the terminal).
>> 
>> To complicate things, the same gps work perfectly on a win7 install (standalone or osgeo4w).
>> 
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>> Are there any pointers?
>> 
>> At this point I've.
>> Updated everything in sight.
>> Uninstalled/reinstalled
>> Uninstalled/removed .qgis2/reinstalled
>> uninstalled/swapped repositaries/reinstalled
>> and am currently compiling master to see if that helps.
>> 
>> -ramon.
>> 
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