[Qgis-user] Connecting QGIS to an Android GPS

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 12/25/2016 09:04 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
> given the wide variety of combinations (BlueTooth, USB, WiFi, NMEA, gpsd
> etc.) and Android apps, I wonder if someone has a combination to
> recommend to be working on Debian or similar. I tried ShareGPS over BT,
> reported to be working on Win; I got
>
> Service Name: ShareGPS
> Service RecHandle: 0x10011
> Service Class ID List:
>   "Serial Port" (0x1101)
> Protocol Descriptor List:
>   "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>   "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>     Channel: 2
>
> but could not get an useful connection from QGIS > GPS panel.
> All the best.

Hi Paolo,

I did fiddle around a little with a bluetooth dongle some time ago:

http://zuidt.nl/blog/html/2014/06/12/use_your_gps_dongle_with_qgis.html

not sure if it is of use though.

Richard