[Qgis-user] live tracking problem

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 18/03/2015, at 04:42 , Brent Wood wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Brent,

It helps a bit.

Yes, because it suggests that QGIS/GPS/Mint/*gpsd* is viable.
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.

And no, because it doesn't help with why something that was working isn't now.
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.

So maybe it's time to have another go at making gpsd work. 
I'll take suggestions, particularly on troubleshooting.

-ramon.