----- "Nasa" <nas...@comcast.net> wrote: > ----- "Kevron Rees" <kevron_m_r...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I have some questions on implementation of gps on meego, I asked > > on > > >> IRC and was pointed this way... > > >> > > >> So while googling I noted that both gpsd and gypsy are installed > > in > > >> the IVI version of meego (which I verified was true). Some of > the > > >> messages I came across suggest gypsy is the *default* solution > > >> > > > (http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-packaging/2010-July/000429.html) > > >> -- but I couldn't find any place talking about how it connects > to > > a > > >> gps device. Could some explain how that works? > > >> > > >> Also, if gypsy is the default -- is there a reason navit (which > > has > > >> support for gypsy) isn't configured for it? ie: source="gypsy > > >> ://connectstring" -gypsy, instead of source=gpsd... which is > what > > is > > >> there now. > > >> > > > BTW, > > > > > > I am *attempting* to use Meego in an actual carpc setup... I > have > > it > > > installed > > > right now and am trying to work out the issues/bugs as I come > across > > them. > > > So > > > hoepfully I don't/won't annoy any one :} > > > > > > Nasa > > > > Hi nasa, > > > > gypsy requires some application to have knowledge of the device and > to > > set > > it up via the gypsy dbus api. I was told that gypsy should really > be > > used > > with some sort of management layer like geoclue which I assume has > > some > > sort of configuration that it reads. > > > > In IVI, this management layer should start automatically when an > > application requests a gps fix (via the dbus launching mechanism). > I > > don't know if this is the case however. > > > > Hope that helps. As I understand, the qt-mobility location backend > > for > > meego will be geoclue/gypsy. So that should at least abstract > > application > > writers from having to know the details of the device. > > > > cheers, > > -Kevron > > Thanks Kevron, > > so I get gypsy/geoclue and I noted that navit can/does use gypsy (not > sure > about geoclue). It seems unclear to me (and I guess you as well) how > to > configure gpysy to use an actual gps device. Looking on gypsy's > website > ( http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ) doesn't help with figuring that > out. > And, of course, geoclue is another layer above gypsy. > > I also thought I read somewhere that geoclue works with gpsd... Is > that correct? > While I noted patches adding support for gpysy in the navit codebase and saw how it was added in the navit.xml file from thier wiki -- I couldn't get it to work with the version of navit provided by meego. Does anyone know if the version from meego is recent enough to include this capability (note the patch for this was closed 19 months ago). BTW: from the terminal, navit gave errors about using gypsy as a source.
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