Andrea I haven't tried with n810 yet, but making gumstix or neo1973 act as a bluetooth gps is fairly straightforward as long as gpspipe is installed.
sdptool add SP rfcomm -r watch 0 1 sh -c "/usr/bin/gpspipe -r >/dev/rfcomm0" & Brad On Feb 7, 2008 9:42 AM, Andrea Grandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to write a Python application that interface itself to GPS > (using gpsd). I'd like to be able to develop it on my PC as well, > without using the real hardware. Not because I don't want to use my > N810, but because I should use it outside to test it! > > I've discovered this application: http://gpsfeed.sourceforge.net/ > > "gpsfeed+ is a utility that feeds the PC with continuous GPS data as > if a GPS were moving in a car or airplane. NMEA 0183 GPS sentences are > sent to the application through a socket (TCP/IP) connection or a UDP > multicast message.!" > > but I still cannot understand if it works also with gpsd. > > I'd like to test it on my Ubuntu machine, but while Maemo uses this > library for python-gps: > http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/documentation/python_gps_examples/index.html > > Linux seems to have a totally different library. I did "apt-get > install python-gps" the unique python gps library available in > repository and it comes without any documentation. > > So I've to develop in Scratchbox at least.... but I would need a GPS > "simulator", a very simple one... so I could test a GPS application > even in Scratchbox environment, without using a real GPS device. > > Any idea? What are, all those people that wrote a gps-application, > using to test it? In particular maemo-mapper, gps-camera ecc..... > > Thanks for your support! > > -- > Andrea Grandi > email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com > website: http://www.andreagrandi.it > PGP Key: http://www.ptlug.org/andreagrandi.asc > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -- Brad _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
