Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-07 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 7. Juli 2008 schrieb Marcus Bauer: > Even more irritating is that Openmoko engineers believe that 12 minutes > are a 'normal' cold start time. Please see: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-May/000181.html and (maybe; I'm not in SW) http://people.openmoko.org/tony_tu/src/u-blo

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-07 Thread Chris
Marcus Bauer wrote: The question remains what the problem is? There are several reports now on the community list with people saying getting no fix or taking unreasonably long under good conditions. Kai Römer has six GTA02 and sees this problem on all of them. Hi, same goes for me, I just don

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 10:22 -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > if memory serves me, that was about 45 seconds outdoors. Indoors > took longer, but it still beat the Tom Tom and the Garmin didn't get > a fix at all. That sounds good, too! > > > going into a brick building and it keeps it at least

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-07 Thread Werner Almesberger
Marcus Bauer wrote: > it seems nobody has ever really tested it and > nobody cares to test it. Instead of theoretical answers I would expect > to get some real world TTFF values. I compared mine a while ago to my two GPS receivers that aren't Neos (an old Tom Tom and an even older Garmin eTrex), a

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:52 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > My Freerunner needs ~5 minutes before it has the time (tangoGPS displays > > the time of the GPS even if there is no fix) and ~10-15 minutes overall > > before it gets a fix. If I move, even just walking or have the Neo not > > in an

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: |> this explains that there is a problem with the internal antenna. |> the gps receiver detects a shortage and disables the antenna :-( |> |> same problem with my new gta02 :-( | | I don't understand Andy's

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Harald Koenig: > On Jul 06, Marcus Bauer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:17 +0200, Bernhard Höll wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > unfortunately I still get no GPS data. I went for a 25 minute trip on a > > > plain field, so GPS reception should be no prob. . > > > >

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Harald Koenig
On Jul 06, Marcus Bauer wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:17 +0200, Bernhard Höll wrote: > > Hi, > > > > unfortunately I still get no GPS data. I went for a 25 minute trip on a > > plain field, so GPS reception should be no prob. . > > My Freerunner needs ~5 minutes before it has the time (tango

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Marcus Bauer: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:17 +0200, Bernhard Höll wrote: > > Hi, > > > > unfortunately I still get no GPS data. I went for a 25 minute trip on a > > plain field, so GPS reception should be no prob. . > > My Freerunner needs ~5 minutes before it has the t

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:17 +0200, Bernhard Höll wrote: > Hi, > > unfortunately I still get no GPS data. I went for a 25 minute trip on a > plain field, so GPS reception should be no prob. . My Freerunner needs ~5 minutes before it has the time (tangoGPS displays the time of the GPS even if there

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Bernhard Höll
Hi, unfortunately I still get no GPS data. I went for a 25 minute trip on a plain field, so GPS reception should be no prob. . When connecting via 'nc' to the gpsd I get output " GPSD,R=1 $GPRMC,,V,,N*53 $GPVTG,N*30 $GPGGA,,0,00,99.99,,*48 $GPGSA,A,1,99.99,99.9

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 17:52 +0200, Bernhard Höll wrote: > Interestingly the /etc/init.d/gpsd startscript does not get triggered when > selecting > "Turn on GPS" in the power menu. > Does anyone know what action gets invoked upon selecting "Turn on GPS" ? > Is this for activating/deactivating the

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Bernhard Höll
Hello, thanks for the info. I checked and /etc/defaults/gpsd was set to the correct device, but there was a file called /etc/defaults/gpsd.default with an other entry. I checked with nc 192.168.0.202 2947 and got the output after having started gpsd again. I think I'll have to take the freerunn

Re: TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
Does the gpsd have the right device in /etc/defaults/gpsd? It is /dev/tty/SAC0 thus: GPS_DEV="/dev/ttySAC1" To test the gpsd you can do from your desktop: nc 192.168.0.202 2947 then type 'r' and hit enter. Looks like this then: ~$ nc 192.168.0.202 2947 r GPSD,R=1 $GPTXT,01,01,01,PSRF inv for

TangoGPS and GPSD

2008-07-06 Thread Bernhard Hoell
Hello, I failed to get GPS working on my freerunner. I flashed the latest openmoko-devel-image-om-gta02.jffs2 and matching kernel. I installed tangogps as well as gpsd manually with opkg and I configured tangogps to connect to the gpsd, which should have been running (since a portscan of