Reading further down tim's blog comments, the tracking tool work only with serial or usb-serial converter. Is it possible then to use the piped gpsbabel nmea output to GPS Live Tracking Tool?
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:09 PM, maning sambale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out the GPS Live Tracking Tool, so far the detailed > information I found are in the manual and > http://linfiniti.com/2010/01/gps-tracker-tool-in-qgis-trunk/ > > I plugged the etrex venture hc via USB and running gpsbabel, it seems > to output nmea strings. > > gpsbabel -T -i garmin -f usb: -o nmea -F - > > $GPRMC,075417.000,A,1438.161,N,12104.699,E,1.94,124.11,200111,,*03 > $GPGGA,075417.000,1438.161,N,12104.699,E,1,00,0.0,81.973,M,0.0,M,,*50 > $GPVTG,124.110,T,0,M,1.944,N,3.600,K*5A > $GPGSA,A,3,,,,,,,,,,,,,0.0,0.0,0.0*32 > > > However, I'm having difficulties connecting to gpsd and qgis' gps live > tracking tool. > > Specs: > gps: etrex venture hc connected via USB > ubuntu 10.04 > qgis 1.6 > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
