Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 10:02:08AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió: TangoGPS starts fine, connects to the 'gpsd' and downloads the maps through the USB interface from Internet; sometimes is just segfaults :-( Mine says it's version 0.9.2, so I might have gotten it from elsewhere. I can't see if TangoGPS knows where I am; how can I prove this if GSM is really working? You'll see when it knows. Also look at the I/J/K numbers at the end of the bottom line, they indicate how many satellites are in view and how many are in sync. You probably need to manually turn the GPS on in the Settings, sadly. Hi, Any idea about this problem: I'm using tangogps-0.9.3-r1 and gpsd-2.34-r9 in the GTA-02 FreeRunner with Om2008.9; sometimes I get (with clean sky) a Fix after some seconds, some times not even after 20 minutes in the same location; the status line of tangoGPS shows a lot of sattelites but none used of them, for enexample 12/0/0.0 What could I do? Thx I used to see odd behaviour a bit like that from gpsd when the gps was powered up after gpsd was started. To save a bit of power I took to running gpsd only while the gps was powered up, starting and stopping both from a script. After I started doing that I stopped seeing the odd behaviour, but it could have been coincidence as there was a lot going on around gps in those days. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 10:02:08AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió: TangoGPS starts fine, connects to the 'gpsd' and downloads the maps through the USB interface from Internet; sometimes is just segfaults :-( Mine says it's version 0.9.2, so I might have gotten it from elsewhere. I can't see if TangoGPS knows where I am; how can I prove this if GSM is really working? You'll see when it knows. Also look at the I/J/K numbers at the end of the bottom line, they indicate how many satellites are in view and how many are in sync. You probably need to manually turn the GPS on in the Settings, sadly. Hi, Any idea about this problem: I'm using tangogps-0.9.3-r1 and gpsd-2.34-r9 in the GTA-02 FreeRunner with Om2008.9; sometimes I get (with clean sky) a Fix after some seconds, some times not even after 20 minutes in the same location; the status line of tangoGPS shows a lot of sattelites but none used of them, for enexample 12/0/0.0 What could I do? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
El día Friday, October 31, 2008 a las 11:05:46AM +, Alastair Johnson escribió: Any idea about this problem: I'm using tangogps-0.9.3-r1 and gpsd-2.34-r9 in the GTA-02 FreeRunner with Om2008.9; sometimes I get (with clean sky) a Fix after some seconds, some times not even after 20 minutes in the same location; the status line of tangoGPS shows a lot of sattelites but none used of them, for enexample 12/0/0.0 What could I do? Thx I used to see odd behaviour a bit like that from gpsd when the gps was powered up after gpsd was started. To save a bit of power I took to running gpsd only while the gps was powered up, starting and stopping both from a script. After I started doing that I stopped seeing the odd behaviour, but it could have been coincidence as there was a lot going on around gps in those days. The 'gpsd' is launched at boot time by the script /etc/init.d/gpsd; I've added support for power-on and power-off in the script before 'start' and after 'stopping' the 'gpsd'; as well I've expanded the file /usr/share/applications/tangogps.desktop to restart 'gpsd' before launching 'tangogps' and to stop the 'gpsd' after end of 'tangogps' (to save power) by this line: Exec=/etc/init.d/gpsd restart;tangogps;/etc/init.d/gpsd stop this worked well in the sense of the processes itself (I've checked this in the log files and with ps(1)); but after this change in /usr/share/applications/tangogps.desktop the above described behaviour started to occur; I've revoked now the change and don't touch 'gpsd' anymore after it was started at boot; it now works again as one expect; it seems that 'gpsd' needs its time to sync with the stars (the sattelites) and/or 'tangogps' does not like a freshly booted 'gpsd'; with more time I will debug the logs deeper ... matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
Hello, The next think I want to try is using GPS on my FR with Om2008.9. I've never used GPS before and so I'm a bit lost in how to do with FR :-) The desktop has an icon 'Locations' and by launching it it asks me if I want to switch-o GPS, I press 'yes' and then nothing more happens, there is only a map with a red dot in Asia. What to do next? The information in the Wiki is not very helpful. Like in all cases it reflects the 2007.x version I think; any other useful pointers? TIA matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
The next think I want to try is using GPS on my FR with Om2008.9. I've never used GPS before and so I'm a bit lost in how to do with FR :-) The desktop has an icon 'Locations' and by launching it it asks me if I want to switch-o GPS, I press 'yes' and then nothing more happens, there is only a map with a red dot in Asia. What to do next? That's it. All you need to do next is wait for the GPS to get a first fix. This may take a minute or so if you're in an outside open area with a nice view of the sky, and it may take forever (literally) if you're in a building, or if the GPS antenna (which is located at the top of your FR) is buried in your coat pocket or facing towards the earth. You only need to be that careful in order to get the first fix. Afterwards, you can go about your business, put the FR in a pocket, etc and the GPS will keep track of your movements. Stefan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 04:37:24AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió: The next think I want to try is using GPS on my FR with Om2008.9. I've never used GPS before and so I'm a bit lost in how to do with FR :-) The desktop has an icon 'Locations' and by launching it it asks me if I want to switch-o GPS, I press 'yes' and then nothing more happens, there is only a map with a red dot in Asia. What to do next? That's it. All you need to do next is wait for the GPS to get a first fix. This may take a minute or so if you're in an outside open area with a nice view of the sky, and it may take forever (literally) if you're in a building, or if the GPS antenna (which is located at the top of your FR) is buried in your coat pocket or facing towards the earth. I was in a building when I tried this last night; will test it outside again (when it stops raining here :-)); You only need to be that careful in order to get the first fix. Afterwards, you can go about your business, put the FR in a pocket, etc and the GPS will keep track of your movements. does this mean as well that I will get some map on my screen? is there some interfacing for exmaple with this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=23.11725lon=-82.42706zoom=15layers=B000FTF Thx for your help matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 06:26:24AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió: does this mean as well that I will get some map on my screen? is there some interfacing for exmaple with this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=23.11725lon=-82.42706zoom=15layers=B000FTF Yes, you'll get an openstreetmap, provided you are somehow connected to the internet. The `locations' application is about as basic as it gets. The next step up is TangoGPS, which is still very basic. There's also Navit (which offers routing), and lots more. I have now installed and configured: # opkg install gpsd # opkg install http://www.tangogps.org/downloads/tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk # vi /etc/default/gpsd GPS_DEV=/dev/ttySAC1 # /etc/init.d/gpsd stop # /etc/init.d/gpsd start because 'Locations' always claims that in can't find the Fix for my actual location; TangoGPS starts fine, connects to the 'gpsd' and downloads the maps through the USB interface from Internet; sometimes is just segfaults :-( I can't see if TangoGPS knows where I am; how can I prove this if GSM is really working? matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:19:04 +0100, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now installed and configured: # opkg install gpsd # opkg install http://www.tangogps.org/downloads/tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk # vi /etc/default/gpsd GPS_DEV=/dev/ttySAC1 # /etc/init.d/gpsd stop # /etc/init.d/gpsd start because 'Locations' always claims that in can't find the Fix for my actual location; TangoGPS starts fine, connects to the 'gpsd' and downloads the maps through the USB interface from Internet; sometimes is just segfaults :-( I can't see if TangoGPS knows where I am; how can I prove this if GSM is really working? matthias http://www.tangogps.org/gps/articles/8-User-Manual.html Below the map display in TangoGPS is a line of text. If it starts with 'D' followed by digits then it has that many map tiles it's queued up to download. Following that, or first if it's not downloading, are speed, heading, etc. Or tap over to the 'Trip' tab and check the status there. 'Satellites' will be X/Y where X is the number it can see and Y (hopefully 4) is how many it's using. j ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
