On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 03:35:20PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > Running xastir on my macbook on mountain lion, what USB gps recevier will > work? > > Will this one work? > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PKX2KA/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p422_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=0VM3811R2A427M91KB0W&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop > > Is it plug in and play, or do I need to set up code for it. Are USB gps's > and compatible with xastir
Xastir can't talk directly to USB gps units unless they provide virtual serial port in some manner (some do, as do some bluetooth GPS units) --- and I can't speak to which units will do tha on OS X. However Xastir *can* connect to a "gpsd" daemon, and gpsd is generally able to grok USB gps units of all sorts. It works great on Linux machines but one of our Mac users on the group will have to help you with getting gpsd set up on your machine. On Linux it is often as simple as telling a package manager to install gpsd, then plugging in the gps -- gpsd gets started automagically, and then you just tell Xastir to connect to it (by creating a "networked gpsd" interface and starting it up). I have no idea if gpsd even runs on OS X, but it probably does. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
