Re: [ gpsdrive ] Support for Bluetooth GPS?

["Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)" <gpsdrive@ostertag.name>]

On Friday 02 February 2007 03:01, kd4e wrote:
> With the wonderful assistance of a couple of folks on
> the Puppy Linux Forum I have GPSdrive working on my
> laptop.
>
> (Puppy is one of the best small linux distros.)
>
> I would really like to use GPSdrive with a Bluetooth
> GPS.

I myself failed to get it running here. But I know others where successful.
You might want to have a look into
	Documentation/README.Bluetooth

> One such affordable device is the BT-5 for $44.
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BT-5&cat=GPS
>
> Has anyone tried a Bluetooth GPS?
>
> Do they work with GPSdrive?

It shouldn't be too difficult. It's the same from the driver level. You tell 
your bluetoot stack to create a serial connection like this:
moby:~# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:15:7F:00:51:08       Bluetooth GPS
moby:~# hcitool cc      00:15:7F:00:51:08
moby:~# hcitool con
Connections:
        < ACL 00:15:7F:00:51:08 handle 41 state 1 lm MASTER 
moby:~# rfcomm bind /dev/rfcomm0 00:15:7F:00:51:08
moby:~# cat /dev/rfcomm0 count=10

And then you let the gpsd connect to this new virtual serial device.
	gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm0

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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