Comments on: Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto

By: Jos

Jos — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:18:09 +0000

Does this also work with Ubuntu (instead of Fedora)? Jos Muller

By: /kernel_reloaded/

/kernel_reloaded/ — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:46:46 +0000

[...] gpsd -b -N -D2 /dev/ttyUSB0 If you want to use igotU GT200 via bluetooth you can use this Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto guide to set it up. [...]

By: bugthing

bugthing — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:21:42 +0000

thanks for the reply…

I do have the gpsd running. It does not complain so I guess it is happy.

From further investigation it seems to not be able to read the /dev/rfcomm0.

When running:
cat /dev/rfcomm0

I think the above should spit out some data, but it does not…

… hold on …

It is working! :-D

I think it is because before I did not restart the GPSlim after installing all the gpsd etc.

thanks alot :)

By: valent

valent — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:13 +0000

@bugthing
Hi, thank you for your comment.

Tangogps and Gpsdrive need gpsd deamon running so please start it, read the instructions in my post how to start it once more and if you have further questions don’t be shy, just ask.

By: bugthing

bugthing — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:06:02 +0000

Thanks for the article.

I am using Fedora 10 on an Acer Aspire One with a bluetooth usb dongle and a Holux GPSlim 236.

The above instructions all go well, except when I reboot their is no /dev/rfcomm0, but when I run ‘rfcomm bind rfcomm0′, it appears, so all good :) (i guess)

gpsd seems to run ok.

The problem comes when I run tangogps or gpsdrive, they both report there is not GPS receiver :(

… any ideas??

By: Eli Hadad

Eli Hadad — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:29:00 +0000

Great article, with few minutes I could make my GPS work with my Fedora9 on my laptop.
Thanks,
Eli

By: valent

valent — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:18:03 +0000

@Scott Williams
Sure I’ll post it to http://fedorasolved.org

@Robert Lipe
I’m using 2-3 GPS apps at the same time so there for my setup gpsd is must because I need to give access to GPS data to more that one app.

By: Robert Lipe

Robert Lipe — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:29:12 +0000

In almost every case, GPSBabel can read straight from the rfcomm device when in realtime tracking mode.

GPSD has a place, but for commodity GPSes hocking up either plain ole NMEA or Garmin PVT, GPSBabel can slurp right from the BT device just fine.

By: Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:15:48 +0000

Excellent write-up. We should post this on http://fedorasolved.org !!