N800 gpsbabel supporting the WBT-201

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Hi  Jonathan,

just seen your post, which seems to be the answer to my question....

Am Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007 12:16 schrieb Jonathan Hudson:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:19:36 +0200
>
> Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel at web.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just wanted to let you know that I released the initial version of my
> > port of GTK G-Rays 2 to "maemo". This also includes gpsbabel-1.3.4 for
> > IT OS 2006 and 2007. The N800 version is untested, though, as I donot
> > have such a device.
> >
> > https://garage.maemo.org/projects/g-rays2/
>
> The N800 version works just fine. Excellent job. Pity the N800 owning
> original author was too lazy to do this months ago :-).
>
> Just in case anyone needs to know, you can get the
> required /dev/rfcomm0 up from a script something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # GPS BT address goes here
> BTADDR=00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>
> dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply \
>  --dest=com.nokia.btcond /com/nokia/btcond/request \
>  com.nokia.btcond.request.rfcomm_bind string:$BTADDR string:SPP

That makes the tool hard to use for a beginner. Couldn't you add a field BT 
Address to the G-Rays 2 GUI and add a button create bluetooth interface?

> In order to have the BT device (vice the USB device) as the default,
> edit ~/.config/g-rays2/g-rays2rc to read:
>
> [g-rays2]
> devices=/dev/rfcomm0

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