<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187446"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187452">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".</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188447" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187452"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188658" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187452">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...<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187880" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187452"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187951" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187452">dmesg shows the GPS being connected & eveything works just as it should??</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188328"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188247" dir="ltr">Which may not help you, but suggests the combination of QGIS/GPS/Mint is a viable one.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188327" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188326" dir="ltr">Brent Wood<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188248"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188249"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188250"><br> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187526" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187525" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187524" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187808" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_188251" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ramon Andiñach <custard@westnet.com.au><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-user List <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:50 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] live tracking problem<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426561486601_187527" class="y_msg_container"><br>Just in case I have not been clear.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1. My problem is with live tracking, not loading gpx files.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">2. These gps were working in 2.6 (and earlier) for this task on these computers.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-ramon.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 17/03/2015, at 21:06 , Ramon Andiñach wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I have the same symptom set for builds of both 2.8 ltr and master,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> so if anyone has suggestions, I'd be appreciative!<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> (the windows box is too big to carry around, in case that gets suggested...)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> -ramon.<br clear="none">> On 17/03/2015, at 18:42 , Ramon Andiñach wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>> Hi,<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> I wondered if anyone had seen something like this?<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> I have 2 mint17 (ubuntu14.04) installs that both are failing to connect to either of my gps.<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> The gps are connecting and are being assigned a port.<br clear="none">>> I can observe communications.<br clear="none">>> I can use gpsbabel to access data on them.<br clear="none">>> (So I think the operating system is communicating with them fine)<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> 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.<br clear="none">>> I can not see any further information in the log or on the terminal.<br clear="none">>> 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).<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> To complicate things, the same gps work perfectly on a win7 install (standalone or osgeo4w).<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> Has anyone else seen this?<br clear="none">>> Are there any pointers?<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> At this point I've.<br clear="none">>> Updated everything in sight.<br clear="none">>> Uninstalled/reinstalled<br clear="none">>> Uninstalled/removed .qgis2/reinstalled<br clear="none">>> uninstalled/swapped repositaries/reinstalled<br clear="none">>> and am currently compiling master to see if that helps.<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> -ramon.<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> Qgis-user mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt1954349304" id="yqtfd83092"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Qgis-user mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Qgis-user mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>