shr- GPS howto?

I've started the demon fso-gpsd and then tangoGPS but it's still receiving no coords. What can I do to test GSP services? Are there any known extra steps needed to get TangoGPS to work? Regards, Fernando ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@l

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Fernando Martins writes: > receiving no coords. What can I do to test GSP services? 1) is the GPS chip powered on? 2) is there a process that has the serial port for GPS open? 3) is that reading any data? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@l

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did you try http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td2104833 ? 2009/1/13 Timo Juhani Lindfors > Fernando Martins writes: > > receiving no coords. What can I do to test GSP services? > > 1) is the GPS chip powered on? > 2) is there a process that has the serial port for GPS open? > 3) is

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Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Fernando Martins writes: > >> receiving no coords. What can I do to test GSP services? >> > > 1) is the GPS chip powered on? > I remember in original om had an option to turn on/off GPS but I can't find it in SHR. Anyway, I assumed gpsd would take care of

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Actually I just thought I had to start manually fso-gpsd (that's what's on the shr wiki page) but as a matter of fact I checked now that it is being actually started at boot time. I'm now trying to figure out how to check whether gps is on/off and how to control it. Thomas des Courières wrote:

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You can test fso-gpsd by running "telnet localhost 2947" then typing "r" and pressing return. You should the receive GPS data. Cheers, Mike. Fernando Martins wrote: > Actually I just thought I had to start manually fso-gpsd (that's what's > on the shr wiki page) but as a matter of fact I chec

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Fernando Martins writes: > I remember in original om had an option to turn on/off GPS but I can't > find it in SHR. Anyway, I assumed gpsd would take care of it. So, in normal gpsd does nothing about freerunner specific power controls. > SHR, how can I check whether GPS is on/off and how to s

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ok, it's the first time I'm looking into this GPS stuff. Following the suggestion from Timo in another post, I do a cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron (which is different from his /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-regltr.7/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron, but that

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You don't need to power on the GPS device yourself, FSO will handle this for you when a client requests the GPS resource (and then power it down again when there are no longer any clients using it). You'll get empty data until the device acquires a fix. From what I've read elsewhere it seems

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Fernando Martins writes: > about sysfs and I'm not sure this way of setting configuration really works. Yes it works just like that. > Anyway, I telneted then to the port but I'm not really familiar with Telnet'ed to what port? The gpsd port 2947 should not return NMEA but just reply to one-le

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Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Telnet'ed to what port? The gpsd port 2947 should not return NMEA but > just reply to one-letter commands: The 'r' command switches fso-gpsd to raw mode, so it'll give a constant stream of NMEA data as it receives it from ogpsd. _

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No luck: - I've setup date and timezone; - GPS is on, per /sys/class... incantation - demon fso-gpsd is on, checked with ps - telnet comunicates with gpsd but no good data - tangoGPS doesn't find GPS device I have no idea of the reception capabilities of om (or GPS devices in general): is it sup

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You're unlikely to get a fix indoors, you might be able to get one pressed up against a window, but for best results you should be outside. Fernando Martins wrote: > No luck: > > - I've setup date and timezone; > - GPS is on, per /sys/class... incantation > - demon fso-gpsd is on, checked with p

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Fernando Martins wrote: > No luck: > > - I've setup date and timezone; > - GPS is on, per /sys/class... incantation > - demon fso-gpsd is on, checked with ps > - telnet comunicates with gpsd but no good data > - tangoGPS doesn't find GPS device > > I have no idea of the reception capabilities of

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Very nice, thanks. It's indeed working, sort of: - on my SHR image (08.12.16), settings has no option for GPS - it took at least 4 minutes to get a fix. Last time, I gave up after 10 min. All tests this evening, same place, tallest buildings almost 100mt away; my house is ~10mt high. Regards,

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I will suggest to install Zhone, disable autostarting with X and use it's GPS panel to debugging. It's really good... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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On 14/01/2009, Fernando Martins wrote: > so something with the device is not working. Also, TangoGPS tells me "no > GPS found". Probably unrelated, but on Om2008.*, I saw this TangoGPS complaint quite often ; this was because somehow 'lo' interface was down and was solved by '/etc/init.d/networ

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Thanks Hemantha, I could not yet come back to GPS testing but I'll try it. Cheers, Fernando Hemantha Holla M wrote: > > > On 14/01/2009, *Fernando Martins* > wrote: > > so something with the device is not working. Also, TangoGPS tells > me "no > GPS found"

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Johny Tenfinger wrote: > I will suggest to install Zhone, disable autostarting with X and use > it's GPS panel to debugging. It's really good... > > When I tried FSO (a recent image a week ago or so), zhone was systematically crashing, not to mention the annoying pincode keyboard. I'm a bit co

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Fernando Martins wrote: > Very nice, thanks. It's indeed working, sort of: > > - on my SHR image (08.12.16), settings has no option for GPS You are right, of course. These days, no option for turning the gps hardware on or off. Gps is turned on automatically by fso-gpsd, when an app tries to use

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> slot. If it isn't there, then your phone have this problem. not necessarily. in fact, if you really have this problem you didn't update your kernel a very long time. the gps/sd card fix is in all kernels available for a very long time now, the hw fix is not necessary. __

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Thanks, arne, Helge, I just made my second try this morning and I got a lock in 35 secs (tried two times, consistent lock time). 8-) I don't know why the different behaviors, but I did the tests inside a party tent I've in the garden and after reading how GPS behaves in weather (rain, cloud,

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satellites move, that can make a difference On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fernando Martins wrote: > Thanks, arne, Helge, > > I just made my second try this morning and I got a lock in 35 secs > (tried two times, consistent lock time). 8-) > > I don't know why the different behaviors, but I d

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arne anka wrote: >> slot. If it isn't there, then your phone have this problem. > > not necessarily. in fact, if you really have this problem you didn't > update your kernel a very long time. > the gps/sd card fix is in all kernels available for a very long time now, > the hw fix is not necess

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> Really? The problem was noise from the SDcard electronics disturbing the > gps receiver. The software fix was to turn the sdcard clock off while > the card isn't actively used. But that don't help at all if the card > _is_ in use most of the time - for example if you're running your linux > dis

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On Monday 26 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > arne anka wrote: > >> slot. If it isn't there, then your phone have this problem. > > > > not necessarily. in fact, if you really have this problem you didn't > > update your kernel a very long time. > > the gps/sd card fix is in all kernels availab

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arne anka wrote: > - the solution you are pointing to, was only some rough first draft. > the kernel patch used eventuially works different. Thank you for the information. Helge Hafting ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org