On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Kevron Rees <[email protected] > wrote:
> > AFAIK, there is no supl support in gypsy at the moment. The problem is, > there seems to be no standard way to feed agps data back to the gps > device. Device mfg's use proprietary command sets to achieve this. > Getting the agps data from supl is probably the easy part. Finding a > generic way to feed that data to the gps device is a bit harder. > Does this mean gypsy will only support standalone gps mode for the device on Meego ? And for AGPS, there will be a different set of proprietary modules in meego available from device mfg's ? Also, I am not sure if qt mobility location api exposes options for enabling/disabling AGPS settings. cheers, Sanny > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Kevron Rees > > <[email protected] > >> wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> >> Hi nasa, > >> >> > >> >> gypsy requires some application to have knowledge of the device and > >> to > >> >> set > >> >> it up via the gypsy dbus api. I was told that gypsy should really be > >> >> used > >> >> with some sort of management layer like geoclue which I assume has > >> >> some > >> >> sort of configuration that it reads. > >> >> > >> >> In IVI, this management layer should start automatically when an > >> >> application requests a gps fix (via the dbus launching mechanism). I > >> >> don't know if this is the case however. > >> >> > >> >> Hope that helps. As I understand, the qt-mobility location backend > >> >> for > >> >> meego will be geoclue/gypsy. So that should at least abstract > >> >> application > >> >> writers from having to know the details of the device. > >> >> > >> >> cheers, > >> >> -Kevron > >> > > >> > Thanks Kevron, > >> > > >> > so I get gypsy/geoclue and I noted that navit can/does use gypsy (not > >> sure > >> > about geoclue). It seems unclear to me (and I guess you as well) how > >> to > >> > configure gpysy to use an actual gps device. Looking on gypsy's > >> website > >> > ( http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ) doesn't help with figuring > that > >> > out. > >> > And, of course, geoclue is another layer above gypsy. > >> > > >> > I also thought I read somewhere that geoclue works with gpsd... Is > >> that > >> > correct? > >> > > >> > >> geoclue can work with either gpsd or gypsy. If you have geoclue > >> running, > >> and configured correctly, it should set up gypsy with the right device > >> (i > >> think). After that it's just a matter of getting navit to use it. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MeeGo-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > >> > > > >
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