Well, I found that the gpsd-problem is comming from this issue: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4050
The workaround that Joseph Wolf is giving in the comments is working: gpspipe -r | nc -l 5555 But as I said I am using fairly new trunk versions and the patch should have been applied 9 months ago. I will take a look later if I really have compiled from the patched version, but if so, there is still a problem about raw -> NMEA conversion. Or can there be anything else healthy that gpspipe is applying to the signal? /Nicklas On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 14:21 +0200, Nicklas Avén wrote: > Hallo everybody > > I am trying to get the gps working with QGIS. > > I am using bluetooth gps, one android phone with extGPS and one Holux > GPSlim 236 > > It is working (after some difficulties with file permissions) to connect > directly to the serial port /dev/rfcomm0. > > I can also start gpsd and use it through FoxtrotGPS or see the result > through gpsmon localhost:2947 > > But I have not succeeded to get the gpsd service as input to QGIS. I > have not seen any documetation and the gpsd support in QGIS is mentioned > very rarely on the net. > > I have tried two different Ubuntu installations with QGIS master from > nightly repositories and locally compiled on the other. And also one > debian with locally compiled trunk. > > > I also have another strange problem. As I said I can connect from QGIS > directly to the serial port, but on the version from the nightly > repository the long lat position seems fixed. The altitude is changing > as expected every second, but the long lat is a few hundred meters wrong > and totally fixed. I cannot understand where that wrong position can be > stored. I have restarted the computer used different gps. But on the > debian box it works as expected and the gps-cursor is traveling around a > small area as expected. > > > Thanks > > Nicklas Avén > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
