Hi, welcome in the Command Line Club. Me too interested to fire up gps from terminal. I did so under XP Windows having usb gps flooding with NMEA sentences. Ok. What I need is shell script parser to extract and read geodata from NMEA stream. As I remember one should read fix data.
Darius --- On Sat, 19/7/08, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to fire up gps daemon from command line - wanna build GPS app on > N810 > To: maemo-developers@maemo.org > Date: Saturday, 19 July, 2008, 6:50 AM > I am new to maemo development and just got an N810. > > I have found out that if the gps daemon is started, it will > stream NMEA > ascii to a pseudo-tty which I can then easily read. > > However, in my tinkering, the way I started the daemon was > to fire off the > Nokia mapping app. But when I did a > tail -f on the tty, after a few seconds the feed stopped. > > I suspect the mapping app was no longer getting data once I > was tailing the > tty, and shut down the daemon. > > Ideas? > > Thanks > > John in Phoenix, AZ, > USA_______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
