You're unlikely to get a fix indoors, you might be able to get one pressed up against a window, but for best results you should be outside.
Fernando Martins wrote: > No luck: > > - I've setup date and timezone; > - GPS is on, per /sys/class... incantation > - demon fso-gpsd is on, checked with ps > - telnet comunicates with gpsd but no good data > - tangoGPS doesn't find GPS device > > I have no idea of the reception capabilities of om (or GPS devices in > general): is it supposed to work indoors? > > Any further suggestions? > > Thanks for all the help so far, > Fernando > > Michael Sheldon wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
