Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-27 Thread Radek Polak
On Tuesday 26 of January 2016 16:28:54 joerg Reisenweber wrote: > What's the problem with the GPS? Could a spare antenna module incl cable > help you out? > Just holler if you need one I don't know exactly - it's long time since i tried. I remember Pavel was having similar problem -

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Davide Scaini
Thanks for the replies. Well it would be nice to use gsm as well... I was thinking about using it also as anti-theft (gps+accel+sms). I remember having a lot of problems of data corruption on the sd card with shr (which was my favourite at the time), that I think might be a serious show-stopper

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Radek Polak
native Qt and very nice app and also native version of navit: http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/apps/qtmoko-navit.html You can launch TangoGPS and other X apps via QX application. My Freerunner has no longer working GPS, so i am not using it nowada

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Davide Scaini
googling I didn't find anything relevant/up-to-date about installing linux on a satnav ... :( it would be easier to buy a cheap android tablet and use it as a satnav ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Davide Scaini
it's not problem. > > > > QtMoko has NeronGPS - native Qt and very nice app and also native version > of navit: > > > > http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/apps/qtmoko-navit.html > > > > You can launch TangoGPS and o

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 26 January 2016 09:18:57 Radek Polak wrote: > My Freerunner has no longer working GPS, so i am not using it nowadays at > all. What's the problem with the GPS? Could a spare antenna module incl cable help you out? Just holler if you need one /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign /\ a

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Davide Scaini
Another option would be buying something like the DragonBoard 410c​ and find a small touch screen to plug. Any idea about a cheap+decent+small+waterproof touchscreen? Thanks again d ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Nick
Quoth Davide Scaini: > Another option would be buying something like the DragonBoard 410c​ and > find a small touch screen to plug. Any idea about a > cheap+decent+small+waterproof touchscreen? Or get a mainstream satnav and put exclusively free software on it. That would probably be the

Re: R: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-25 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
El Dilluns 25 Gener 2016, a les 23:13:00, Giacomo Mariani va escriure: > >shr: abandoned ? > > the later versions were hopelessly broken and unusable on the freerunner. I think that SHR is the only active, but I haven’t time to test it lately and from

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-25 Thread mail
hi > >I would like to reuse the gta02 as a gps, I really loved foxtrotGPS and I >would like to have something like that running. >Any chance to have a distribution that still works on gta02? > >qtmoko: still there? (even if I remember it was quite uncomfort

gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-25 Thread Davide Scaini
Hi all, incredible but true 2016 has arrived. I would like to reuse the gta02 as a gps, I really loved foxtrotGPS and I would like to have something like that running. Any chance to have a distribution that still works on gta02? qtmoko: still there? (even if I remember it was quite

R: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-25 Thread Giacomo Mariani
, Giacomo - Messaggio originale - Da: "m...@dmatthews.org" <m...@dmatthews.org> Inviato: ‎25/‎01/‎2016 21:34 A: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <community@lists.openmoko.org> Oggetto: Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016) hi > >I would like

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-09 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] Are you in a position to build the source and actually to a test run with your translations? I am able to do it. Just lack of time is an issue. There are some parts of the GUI where some strings really need to be kept to a single, short line; and there are others where it doesn't

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-09 Thread Marc Verwerft
Since we're on, this topic, I have another question/issue. I noticed that in the translation there are a few lists (separated by the pipe character) that in English are nicely alphabetically sorted. What is the preferred approach for translation? When we translate to different languages, the

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Marc Verwerft marc.js.verwe...@gmail.com writes: Since we're on, this topic, I have another question/issue. I noticed that in the translation there are a few lists (separated by the pipe character) that in English are nicely alphabetically sorted. What is the preferred approach for

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-07 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] No; actually, at least in some cases, it's important that the formatting _is_ translatable. Sometimes things should actually be formatted differently in different locales. [cut] OK, i get it. Next question, sometimes some strings are much longer in Polish than in English. Do you prefer me

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl writes: OK, i get it. Next question, sometimes some strings are much longer in Polish than in English. Do you prefer me to keep it line to line ratio, or should I break long ones to two shorter lines? Are you in a position to build the source and actually

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-06 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2014-10-05, nie o godzinie 12:24 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen pisze: Oh, FYI--the web-based translation tool for FoxtrotGPS in Launchpad is available here: https://translations.launchpad.net/foxtrotgps Hi Joshua, great idea with enabling LP translations. However one thing is

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl writes: Dnia 2014-10-05, nie o godzinie 12:24 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen pisze: Oh, FYI--the web-based translation tool for FoxtrotGPS in Launchpad is available here: https://translations.launchpad.net/foxtrotgps Hi Joshua, great idea with

Re: [FOSS-GPS] Releasing FoxtrotGPS 1.2.0--translations needed

2014-10-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
string is no GPS found); I've enabled translation via launchpad.net; hopefully that will help make it easier to complete translations. FYI, here's a list of FoxtrotGPS's current translations and their status: Bulgarian (bg): 72 translated messages 65 fuzzy

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-13 Thread Ben Wong
to mount the FR device in the car, visible by the driver to be used as GPS maps? I think the best place would be near the windshield in the drivers corner. Thx matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, g...@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ f: +49-170-4527211 UNIX

mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Has someone a good idea or solution how to mount the FR device in the car, visible by the driver to be used as GPS maps? I think the best place would be near the windshield in the drivers corner. Thx matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, g...@unixarea.de

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Նորայր
- Hello, Has someone a good idea or solution how to mount the FR device in the car, visible by the driver to be used as GPS maps? I think the best place would be near the windshield in the drivers corner. Thx     matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, g...@unixarea.de

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, March 07, 2014 a las 02:17:05PM +0100, Lukas Maerdian escribió: How about this accessory: http://pulster.eu/index.html?d__ompkwhalter__OpenMoko_Freerunner_desk___car_cradle824.htm Do you (or anybody else) know how this is to be supposed to be mounted in the car or cristal? Thx

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Lukas Maerdian
It has a vacuum cup at one end, which you can use to stick it to your windshield. Just like any normal (external) navigation system. 2014-03-07 14:51 GMT+01:00 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de: El día Friday, March 07, 2014 a las 02:17:05PM +0100, Lukas Maerdian escribió: How about this

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Has someone a good idea or solution how to mount the FR device in the car, visible by the driver to be used as GPS maps? I think the best place would be near the windshield in the drivers corner. I'm using something similair like this one

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Boudewijn
. Best regards, Boudewijn 2014-03-07 13:21 GMT+01:00 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de: Hello, Has someone a good idea or solution how to mount the FR device in the car, visible by the driver to be used as GPS maps? I think the best place would be near the windshield in the drivers

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-17 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
Hi, I'd also like to use my gta02 as bluetooth GPS with Android(Replicant) devices. There is an application for that in FDroid(a free software market/google play replacement that contains only free software): http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Navigationfdid

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-09 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 03/08/2013 08:45 PM, Fox Mulder wrote: Am 06.03.2013 14:21, schrieb Ed Kapitein: SNIP The lack of pairing also means a lack of encryption, you have to judge the impact of that yourself. Thanks for these instructions. But the problem is that i want to pair the freerunner with my tablet where i

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-08 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 06.03.2013 14:21, schrieb Ed Kapitein: On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:42 +0100, Fox Mulder wrote: Am 05.03.2013 18:43, schrieb Fox Mulder: Am 05.03.2013 15:08, schrieb Neil Jerram: Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net writes: Hi, is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer? I

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-06 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 05.03.2013 18:43, schrieb Fox Mulder: Am 05.03.2013 15:08, schrieb Neil Jerram: Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net writes: Hi, is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer? I got a cheap tablet without integrated gps and thought it would be great, if i could use my

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-06 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:42 +0100, Fox Mulder wrote: Am 05.03.2013 18:43, schrieb Fox Mulder: Am 05.03.2013 15:08, schrieb Neil Jerram: Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net writes: Hi, is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer? I got a cheap tablet without

GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-05 Thread Fox Mulder
Hi, is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer? I got a cheap tablet without integrated gps and thought it would be great, if i could use my gta02 as an external gps receiver and pair it over bluetooth with my tablet. But therefor i need some special program or script

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-05 Thread Neil Jerram
Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net writes: Hi, is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer? I got a cheap tablet without integrated gps and thought it would be great, if i could use my gta02 as an external gps receiver and pair it over bluetooth with my tablet

Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-05 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 05.03.2013 15:08, schrieb Neil Jerram: Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net writes: Hi, is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer? I got a cheap tablet without integrated gps and thought it would be great, if i could use my gta02 as an external gps receiver and pair

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.02.2013 um 14:36 schrieb Pascal Gosselin: Yesterday I was able to confirm that the installation of the Golden Delicious NavBoard V3 very seriously degrades the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna. Getting a 3D fix is taking over 20 minutes on average using

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-08 Thread Pascal Gosselin
for recommendations, ideally something I can order from Digi-Key, Newark or Mouser in smaller quantities (it's not like a need a 1,000 foot roll!). It's not clear IF the power supply wires should be shielded. I think I will try to see if it makes a difference for the GPS. -Pascal

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-08 Thread joerg Reisenweber
a difference for the GPS. -Pascal You should use fine pitch flat ribbon connector or flat plastic connector like on LCM, and shield it with a metal braid sticky tape, again like originally done in GTA02 LCM connection. For further crosstalk and EMI shielding run a GND wire as every 1., 3. aso

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-08 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.02.2013 um 14:36 schrieb Pascal Gosselin: Yesterday I was able to confirm that the installation of the Golden Delicious NavBoard V3 very seriously degrades the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna. Getting a 3D fix is taking over 20 minutes on average using

GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-07 Thread Pascal Gosselin
Yesterday I was able to confirm that the installation of the Golden Delicious NavBoard V3 very seriously degrades the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna. Getting a 3D fix is taking over 20 minutes on average using the built-in GPS antenna. When using an external GPS

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-07 Thread Hrabosh
A few comments inside: Pascal Gosselin píše v Čt 07. 02. 2013 v 08:36 -0500: Yesterday I was able to confirm that the installation of the Golden Delicious NavBoard V3 very seriously degrades the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna. Getting a 3D fix is taking over 20

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-07 Thread Jiří Pinkava
Dne 7.2.2013 18:00, Hrabosh napsal(a): A few comments inside: Pascal Gosselin píše v Čt 07. 02. 2013 v 08:36 -0500: Yesterday I was able to confirm that the installation of the Golden Delicious NavBoard V3 very seriously degrades the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna

Re: GTA02: NavBoard V3 causing GPS interference

2013-02-07 Thread Hrabosh
the performance of GPS when using the built-in GPS antenna. Getting a 3D fix is taking over 20 minutes on average using the built-in GPS antenna. When using an external GPS antenna, the issue goes away and an unaided GPS cold start can be achieved in about 41 to 44 seconds. I suspect

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-14 Thread robin
I reread the thread to see if anyone could actually answer the question if the gta04 can do more than the very low 1Hz sampling, but am I right that this has not been answered and as you pointed out the datasheet currently only speculates about 5Hz in the future? br robin

5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Pascal Gosselin
The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). Has anyone succeeded in being able to get 5Hz position updates from the GTA04 with either the W2SG0004i (SiRFstarIII GPS chip) or the more recent GTA04

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Pascal Gosselin pas...@aeroteknic.com writes: The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). It can do 20 Hz too btw. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Pascal Gosselin
On 2012-12-09 3:25 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Pascal Gosselin pas...@aeroteknic.com writes: The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). It can do 20 Hz too btw. That's pretty amazing. Tell me more

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Pascal Gosselin pas...@aeroteknic.com writes: That's pretty amazing. Tell me more ! I still have a couple of hundred GTA 02s that will eventually be installed in airplanes and helicopters. Find the UBX specification. Look at the CFG-RATE command and set navigation rate to 50 ms. I have some

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi writes: (it's derived from ogsmd). I mean ogpsd ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread francesco . devita
The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). [...] I still have a couple of hundred GTA 02s that will eventually be installed in airplanes and helicopters. -Pascal If I may ask, what kind of activity

Re: 5Hz GPS operation using the GTA04 ?

2012-12-09 Thread Pascal Gosselin
On 2012-12-09, at 5:56 PM, francesco.dev...@mailoo.org francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote: The GTA02 has a pretty good GPS receiver, and the fact that it can do 4Hz is critical to our application (Flight Data Monitoring). [...] I still have a couple of hundred GTA 02s that will eventually

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-11 Thread Onen
Hi, as I am not a very active member of the project any more, I don't remember exactly the content of the sqlite file. If not in there, you might have a look at the server side code. Based on raw data, IIRC that is what the server is building: some kind of coverage map. Then (so it seems,

Installing FSO on qtmoko (was: Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS)

2012-11-07 Thread Daniele Forsi
2012/11/6 Radek Polak: Yes, all the phone functions will use FSO dbus calls. The qtopiaphonemodem will not be used. I tried to install FSO from within neocontrol and I didn't succeed one problem is that the terminal window closes too fast and it's not easy to see that there were errors so I

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-07 Thread Onen
Hi, you are absolutely right, my client for GTA02 was getting neighbour cells. I rely on FSO API. For neighbour cells data to make sense, IIRC, you must be connected to the network. Onen On 11/06/2012 04:44 PM, robin wrote: so is there any other way to get this information? also I think

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-07 Thread Onen
On 11/06/2012 08:19 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: 4. Position being shown in NeronGPS as in eg in the Whereabouts-Mappingdemo shown on the QtMokoDev Page [1] Sounds good. I wonder what the trade-off is between implementing something like this from scratch for GTA04, and trying to integrate an

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-07 Thread Onen
This has been discussed and tested already, especially by DocScrutinizer. Location based on signal strengh does not work. Much to many interferences. But what we do is to have a coverage area for a cell, then you can find the intersection of areas for serving and neighbour cells. Onen On

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-07 Thread Onen
On 11/06/2012 04:27 PM, robin wrote: 2) python script + sqlite db compare cells to cells in database select the relevant ones and their position apply some function to estimate the real position You may have a look here:

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-07 Thread robin
I think I will give this a try. I looked at the source of the sqlite file, and you can easily get the location. Is there any easy way to get the area the cell covers as a polygon, so we can check for intersections as you suggested? br robin ___

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
Sounds good. I wonder what the trade-off is between implementing something like this from scratch for GTA04, and trying to integrate an existing partial solution such as GeoClue? hi neil, as far as I understand geoclue comprises a communication between a provider and your phone, so that

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
hi daniele, maybe you can help me with your code: what I get import dbus from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True) bus = dbus.SystemBus() gsm_device_obj = bus.get_object( 'org.freesmartphone.ogsmd', '/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device' ) gsm_cell_monitor =

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Pascal Gosselin
Question: Is is possible to do cell-based location with an de-activated SIM ?I recall that many phones will allow for an Emergency Call (911 in North America) without an active subscription. Can the Cell ID (CID) be obtained on the GTA02 in such a situation ? -Pascal

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread mauve
On 06.11.2012 13:52, Pascal Gosselin wrote: Question: Is is possible to do cell-based location with an de-activated SIM ?I recall that many phones will allow for an Emergency Call (911 in North America) without an active subscription. Can the Cell ID (CID) be obtained on the GTA02 in such a

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:01:21 + (UTC) robin spielr...@web.de wrote: Hi, I wanted to give the GSM location a try. So what I would like to acchieve in the end is: 0. GPS off 1. GSM Cells are detected 2. Triangulation takes place (I don't know yet if eg signal strength is used) 3. Look

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
) maybe via foxtrot-gps QtMoko) NeronGPS if possible 3B) create some sort of fake NMEA and alter navit.xml to read from there (as far as I remember navit can take quite a lot of sources, so this might be an option for both SHR and QtMoko br robin

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread mauve
On 06.11.2012 11:37, robin wrote: hi daniele, maybe you can help me with your code: what I get snip dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freesmartphone.GSM.DeviceFailed: OK any ideas why the call does not work? Because FSO supports getting the subsequent cell IDs, but the modem does not

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
so is there any other way to get this information? also I think that the openbmap logger which worked nicely on my gta02 was somehow able to get the neighbouring cells. but I might be mistaken. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Daniele Forsi
2012/11/6 robin: so is there any other way to get this information? GetNeighbourCellInformation works on the GTA02, I used it the following code works for me, I just checked it with SHR-20101205, it used to work also on Debian but some update broke something, and I can't get it to work with

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
thanks I will give that a try. Does anyone know if there has been a major change with fso. I just installed cellhunter on shr and when I hit the button to get the cell the console gives while len(self.cell_la) 4: TypeError: object of type 'dbus.Int32' has no len() does anyone know about

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Daniele Forsi
2012/11/6 robin: Does anyone know if there has been a major change with fso. I just installed cellhunter on shr and when I hit the button to get the cell the console gives while len(self.cell_la) 4: TypeError: object of type 'dbus.Int32' has no len() you can find a patched version here (I

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
regarding qtmoko v48 and fso. does installing and using fso to get cell information mean that you fso then also takes over all the communication with the modem (eg. calls, and so on)? or can the qt-system and fso live in peace next to each other? ___

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Neil Jerram
robin spielr...@web.de writes: Sounds good. I wonder what the trade-off is between implementing something like this from scratch for GTA04, and trying to integrate an existing partial solution such as GeoClue? hi neil, as far as I understand geoclue comprises a communication between a

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 06 November 2012 15:29:52 mauve wrote: On 06.11.2012 11:37, robin wrote: hi daniele, maybe you can help me with your code: what I get snip dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freesmartphone.GSM.DeviceFailed: OK any ideas why the call does not work? Because FSO

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Radek Polak
On Tuesday, November 06, 2012 06:19:13 PM robin wrote: regarding qtmoko v48 and fso. does installing and using fso to get cell information mean that you fso then also takes over all the communication with the modem (eg. calls, and so on)? Yes, all the phone functions will use FSO dbus calls.

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Neil Jerram
robin spielr...@web.de writes: I guess one could split the whole thing in three parts so it would be adaptable to both qtmoko and shr. I can only program in python and may add a sqlite data base. having read a bit more about triangulation, the task will be much more difficult than I though,

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 06 November 2012 08:09:58 robin wrote: Sounds good. I wonder what the trade-off is between implementing something like this from scratch for GTA04, and trying to integrate an existing partial solution such as GeoClue? hi neil, as far as I understand geoclue comprises a

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
the patched version works nicely. thanks for pointing me there. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread robin
does anyone know if the agps-onlinec works on SHR? because then one could already make use of the location of the main cell nearby to get the right coordinates for the assisted-gps query (one then needs gprs/wlan though and an account with u-blox). #!/bin/sh echo 1 /sys/bus/platform/drivers

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Radek Polak
On Wednesday, November 07, 2012 07:28:41 AM robin wrote: does anyone know if the agps-onlinec works on SHR? because then one could already make use of the location of the main cell nearby to get the right coordinates for the assisted-gps query (one then needs gprs/wlan though and an account

Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-05 Thread robin
Hi, I wanted to give the GSM location a try. So what I would like to acchieve in the end is: 0. GPS off 1. GSM Cells are detected 2. Triangulation takes place (I don't know yet if eg signal strength is used) 3. Look-up in the OpenCellID offline (!) text database 4. Position being shown

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-05 Thread robin
the correct numbers for the cell one can easily get the tower position from the text file in gps-offline mode. the problem is that the numbers for location on the qtmoko home screen do not fit with any numbers of a tower near by. So I was wondering either what does numbers are and how to get the correct

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-05 Thread Neil Jerram
robin spielr...@web.de writes: Hi, I wanted to give the GSM location a try. So what I would like to acchieve in the end is: 0. GPS off 1. GSM Cells are detected 2. Triangulation takes place (I don't know yet if eg signal strength is used) 3. Look-up in the OpenCellID offline (!) text

[qtmoko] Setting the clock from GPS time

2012-08-27 Thread Gilles Filippini
Hi, Is there a way to set the clock from GPS time with qtmoko? Thanks in advance, _g. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [qtmoko] Setting the clock from GPS time

2012-08-27 Thread Jiří Pinkava
Hi, yes, Neron GPS has this ability. On 08/27/2012 05:07 PM, Gilles Filippini wrote: Hi, Is there a way to set the clock from GPS time with qtmoko? Thanks in advance, _g. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: [qtmoko] Setting the clock from GPS time

2012-08-27 Thread Neil Jerram
Run NeronGPS, select the menu, select Other, select Clock. Then press the Sync button. Jiří Pinkava j...@seznam.cz writes: Hi, yes, Neron GPS has this ability. On 08/27/2012 05:07 PM, Gilles Filippini wrote: Hi, Is there a way to set the clock from GPS time with qtmoko

Re: [qtmoko] Setting the clock from GPS time

2012-08-27 Thread Gilles Filippini
Jiří Pinkava a écrit , Le 27/08/2012 18:40: yes, Neron GPS has this ability. Great! Thanks, _g. On 08/27/2012 05:07 PM, Gilles Filippini wrote: Hi, Is there a way to set the clock from GPS time with qtmoko? Thanks in advance, _g. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [qtmoko] dpkg-reconfigure locale resizes most of the fonts and no gps fix possible anymore(?)

2012-08-25 Thread Ed Kapitein
with the gps. Is there a gpsd running on the FR? Or if it uses dbus, can you monitor if dbus gets location and satelite updates? If gpsd is running, you could save the nmea data to a file and use gpsbabel to check if you have a fix or not. Kind regards. Ed

Re: [qtmoko] dpkg-reconfigure locale resizes most of the fonts and no gps fix possible anymore(?)

2012-08-25 Thread Dmitry Shalnoff
@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Robin, I am afraid i can't help you with the fonts, but perhaps with the gps. Is there a gpsd running on the FR? Or if it uses dbus, can you monitor if dbus gets location and satelite updates? If gpsd is running, you could save the nmea

[qtmoko] dpkg-reconfigure locale resizes most of the fonts and no gps fix possible anymore(?)

2012-08-24 Thread robin
hi all I wanted to have the new anki 2.0 flash cards on my GTA, but it always complained that it the system was not set to UTF8. In the end I succeeded by running dpkg-reconfigure locale but since then my fonts are very large (not everywhere but on most screens) and this is for all themes. Also

navit on qtmoko (via qx) / no gps

2012-02-26 Thread robin
I have just installed qtmoko v39 on my freerunner which works very nicely. one thing I have not managed to get going is navit/tangogps running on qx. first I start gps manually. gpsd is set to connect to /dev/ttySAC1 NeronGPS gets the fix. Navit or foxtrotgps don't. Foxtrot gps is set

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-14 Thread Guilhem Bonnefille
in a raw in-car GPS. -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-14 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
So, I'm looking for someone already working on a project like this: selecting and configuring the right tools for converting a FreeRunner in a raw in-car GPS. Why not making a GPS-only image, for instance in the SHR distribution. it's just a mather of selecting the right packages to put

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-14 Thread robin
a very lightweight distribution which gave some live to my old ibm x31 is bodhi linux based on e17 and ubuntu. tries not to install any unnessesary stuff. best regards robin ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-13 Thread robin
Maybe you can add navit to the gamerunner project: http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net they say it is very minimal Minimal rootfs with the proper libs for games (like SDL and Allegro) also has no services running, so you would need somehow to start gpsd. robin

Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-12 Thread Guilhem Bonnefille
Hi, Due to a recent move to N900 (developped in [1]) as main phone, my Neo Freerunner lost is phone responsibility. In order to avoid storing it on a shelf, I imagined to convert it as raw in car GPS (sort of open version of TomTom). In order to exploit the maximum of the hardware, I imagined

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Guilhem Bonnefille guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com writes: version of TomTom). In order to exploit the maximum of the hardware, I imagined to installed a really dedicated distribution, Distributions are made of packages, why not just take an existing distribution and only install the packages you

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-12 Thread Boudewijn
On Sunday 12 February 2012 22:05:47 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Guilhem Bonnefille guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com writes: Do you know such a project? Someone started similar project? Do you have any suggestion to start something like this? I'd just take some distribution that you know and

Re: Distro + GPS package suggestions.

2012-02-05 Thread Martix
always had problems with the GPS and GPS software in general. I am looking for suggestions as to which distro and which GPS package I can use together to get an experience somewhat comparable to OSMAnd http://osmand.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Distro + GPS package suggestions.

2012-02-04 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi, On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 04:26, Wes Frazier wes.fraz...@members.fsf.org wrote: I am looking for suggestions as to which distro and which GPS package I can use together to get an experience somewhat comparable to OSMAnd http://osmand.net/ OSMAnd looks great, indeed... Try SHR and Navit

Distro + GPS package suggestions.

2012-02-03 Thread Wes Frazier
I am dusting off my FreeRunner GTA02 and hope to be switching to it for my primary phone. I have used it to much success in the past but have always had problems with the GPS and GPS software in general. I am looking for suggestions as to which distro and which GPS package I can use together

Re: I2C and GPS

2012-01-11 Thread Sylvain Paré
can we have a picture of the final tweak please ? 2012/1/11 Benjamin Deering ben_deer...@swissmail.org Dusting off a very old thread... I have both of my sensors working and good gps performance now. This weekend I opened the position settings-satellite details dialog in SHR as well

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