[Qgis-user] Connecting QGIS to an Android GPS

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 26/12/2016 10:35, Pedro Venâncio ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I've no problem to connect an Android phone (Nexus 4) to a Linux Mint /
> Ubuntu laptop, both with ShareGPS [0] or GPS over BT [1] apps.
> 
> For instance, for ShareGPS, Add a new connection, Type standard NMEA
> format, connection over bluetooth, auto find and connect to the laptop
> bluetooth. Then click on 'bluetooth icon' on ShareGPS, to make the
> smartphone visible to others by 180 seconds, and on laptop (where I've
> gpsd deamon running), the steps are exactly the ones pointed by Richard:
> 
> $ hcitool scan
>     (here you will get the MAC address - xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)
> 
> 
> $ sdptool records xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> 
> In your case the answer is:
> 
>     Service Name: ShareGPS
>     Service RecHandle: 0x10011
>     Service Class ID List:
>       "Serial Port" (0x1101)
>     Protocol Descriptor List:
>       "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>       "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>         Channel: 2
> 
> So, you do:
> 
> $ sudo rfcomm bind 0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2
> 
> and you will get the /dev/rfcomm0.
> 
> Then run QGIS with root, and connect GPS to /dev/rfcomm0.
> 
> It is working fine here.

Thanks Pedro, now working. There was some communication problems,
apparently with the kernel modules.
All the best.
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