Hey, I'm wondering how to best integrate my MBM 3G modems GPS with MM and Gypsy. The GPS on this device works as follows: The modem exposes three serial ports that all support AT commands, one can use AT commands to turn on the GPS, query it's status (e.g. whether it has a lock) and adjust some other settings. To read the actual location information from the GPS another AT command can be send to any of the three serial ports to turn it into an NMEA streaming port. At this point you can point any normal GPS application (like gypsy or gpsd) to this serial port an everything works nicely.
Looking at the recent Location interface of MM the ``suggested'' way to implement this seems to be that MM turns one port into the NMEA port and relays the NMEA information over dbus in the Location property, which seems somewhat over the top. It seems more natural to be able to ask MM nicely whether one can have a serial port with NMEA enabled and just use that, at which point Gypsy can take care of everything else. Assuming i'm not the only one that thinks that's a nicer way of doing things, i'd be happy to propose a GpsDevice interface with the needed functionality. I wouldn't put it in the Location interface as that feels more like: the modem itself provides location information instead of the modem has a slave device which gives raw nmea. Comments, suggestions, flames ? :) -- Sjoerd Simons <[email protected]> Collabora Ltd. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
