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 important to make sure that your time-zone settings and date/time are correct, as it seems FSO uses these when getting a fix. Cheers, Mike. Fernando Martins wrote: > 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's what I found) > > and that gives me 0. A echoed a 1 to it, but it's the first time a learn > about sysfs and I'm not sure this way of setting configuration really works. > > Anyway, I telneted then to the port but I'm not really familiar with > these GPS codes. This seems to be NEMEA data and a quick reading tells > me that $GPRMC should give me my coordinates but I'm getting empty stuff > > $GPRMC,,V,,,,,,*31 > > so something with the device is not working. Also, TangoGPS tells me "no > GPS found". > > Any further suggestions from here? > > Regards, > Fernando > > Michael Sheldon wrote: >> 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 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: >>> >>>> did you try http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td2104833 ? >>>> >>>> 2009/1/13 Timo Juhani Lindfors <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> >>>> Fernando Martins <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Openmoko community mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Openmoko community mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
