Hi,

uhm ... gpsd is supposed to work with qtmobility on desktop linux?

Till


Am Dienstag 05 Oktober 2010 schrieb Hannu Säles:
> Hii
> 
> Mobility/location in Maemo uses gpsd......
> gpsd alone works nicely under Qt in maemo....
> 
> so where is no problem. Use it either way.
> 
> Hannu
> 
> At 20:17 5.10.2010, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Am Dienstag 05 Oktober 2010 schrieb alex.blas...@nokia.com:
> > > As David pointed out there are potentially 
> > multiple sources and the device name is not always standardized. Therefore 
> > we
> >There is no device name involved in talking to 
> >gpsd. This is exactly what gpsd abstracts.
> >
> > > didn't feel that hard coding would be 
> > appropriate. What might work on your desktop may not be a universal truth.
> >The use of gpsd is pretty universal. Please tell 
> >me a single gps aware linux app that doesn't use it.
> >
> > > Therefore we opted for the middle ground. 
> > While it is not generalized enough for *all* 
> > desktops there is a pretty good starting point. 
> > By the way the QNMEAPositionInfoSource works 
> > with Windows based NMEA devices too. At this 
> > point your suggestion does break without further API changes.
> >I am pretty sure it does not work with windows 
> >as windows device names are likely different 
> >from linux ones. Also your framework includes 
> >the possibility to provide a defaultsource 
> >completely transparent to the application. You 
> >just aren't using this under desktop linux.
> >
> > > Please keep in mind that Mobility does put 
> > focus on the Mobile platforms at this stage.
> >Yepp ... so i'll wait until it gets a little more mature. No problem.
> >
> > > While I wouldn't rule out that there is a bug 
> > in light maps the QNmeaPositionInfoSource is 
> > tested. In fact, it is the fall back
> > > alternative for each example if the platform 
> > doesn't have a default source. Also looking at 
> > the code the satellite info source component it 
> > is clearly optional. Again the NMEA file 
> > fallback would hit the same code path. Yes, if 
> > you have a real NMEA source you have to change 
> > a couple of lines of code to point to your device but that should be it.
> >It doesn't even work with the fake nmea source! 
> >The replay is never started since there's no 
> >satellite simulation. And a working satellite 
> >setup is required to start the replay.
> >
> >Please, just give the current nmea simulation a try. It doesn't work.
> >
> > > LBNL I would not rule out that your NMEA 
> > source may have a slightly different NMEA output which may lead to an parse
> >As i said: Capturing the very same NMEA output 
> >to a file and doing a replay from that file works!
> >
> > > error. You could easily verify this by 
> > comparing the nmealog.txt with output from your 
> > device. This would be a bug. LBNL we do not support NMEA 2000.
> >This is not the problem.
> >
> >Regards,
> >   Till
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