Jason wrote: > Craig Woodward wrote: >>> ---- Jason <maemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> ============= Aldon Hynes wrote: >>>> For a good starting point, I would recommend >>>> http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/Using_Location_API >>>> >>> Okay, that's a good start. I found the raw C api here [1]. Does >>> this generate a tcp listener socket on 2947? It doesn't look like >>> it. :-( I'm shooting for a gpsd equivalent so existing gpsd aware >>> apps don't need to be modified. >>> >>> [1] - >>> http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/liblocation/LocationGPSDControl.html >>> >> A better idea may be to write a mini-gpsd specifically for the N900 >> that translates between the location API and the port. This would >> allow the best of both worlds, since we save power when not used and >> apps talking gpsd can run without major changes. >> > > I saw that app (minigpsd [2]) in one of the maemo repos, but apt-get > install failed with unmet dependencies. As it was in -testing I figured > it was a work-in-progress and looked to other things... > > The unmet dependencies were: > #### begin ############# > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > minigpsd: Depends: bluez-utils-test but it is not installable > Depends: python2.5-gnome but it is not installable > E: Broken packages > #### end ############### > > As for a proposed project, it may be easiest to gin up a patch against > gpsd, adding support for liblocation. I'd be curious which NMEA > sentences liblocation spits out. If it just passes along what it > receives, that would be great. > > [2] - http://maemo.org/packages/view/minigpsd/ Grrrr. I took a closer look at the Python API, since it spells out what is returned... I could do GLL, maybe RMC, but I'm not sure I can create a proper GSV from it. :-( It would probably be better to write a small daemon that accesses liblocation and emulates a dumb serial gps, writing raw NMEA sentences to the psuedo serial port device. gpsd could then listen on that. Since 'sb2 apt-get source liblocation' failed, I presume liblocation isn't open source. What a pity. I'll take a closer look tomorrow. thx, Jason. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
