A refinement on the thought below - how to pipe the NMEA data to a bluetooth serial port so I can connect my Palm TX and run its mapping off the FR GPS chip data.
If anyone could provide pointers on setting up bluetooth serial connections to/from the FR I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Chris On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:26 AM, C R McClenaghan wrote: > This will be my 3rd GPS device in ~5 years. The first two - a NAVMAN > from New Zealand and a Garmin - always had exceedingly long cold > starts (i.e. turn the device off, fly >1500 km, turn device on), on > the order of 10 minutes. > > I still have the Garmin in working condition, it is the Garmin 10, a > bluetooth model. If some one could help me with the FR bluetooth, > and the GSP applications, I could connect to FR "gps" stack to the > Garmin to isolate them from the on board chip. This would, of > course. assume that the bluetooth stack didn't cloud any issue. > > Thoughts, how-tos? > > Chris > > On Jul 14, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Jay Vaughan wrote: > >>> The module talks NMEA but also a ublox binary format. Among other >>> things this >>> allows time and location estimates, ephemeris and almanac data to be >>> fed to >>> the module to give it an initial state, and should reduce time to >>> first fix. >>> Likewise it can be used to request this data from the module so it >>> can be >>> saved before shutdown. 'Driver' probably isn't the right word. >> >> >> So we just need to wrap 'save' and 'restore' scripts around the gpsd >> script? >> >> ; >> -- >> Jay Vaughan >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
