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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2004-08-22 15:08:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2004-08-22 15:08:08 +0000 |
| commit | 987e8250ca3a99198dbaef5b20121378e11d0a02 (patch) | |
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| download | gpsd-987e8250ca3a99198dbaef5b20121378e11d0a02.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/www/bt.html b/www/bt.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1f84533f --- /dev/null +++ b/www/bt.html @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> +<html> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + <meta name="Author" content="Remco Treffkorn"> + <meta name="Description" content="GPSd is a utility that can listen to a GPS or Loran Receiver and re-publish the positional data in a simpler format."> + <meta name="Keywords" content="GPS, translator, mxmap, GIS"> + <title>Bluetooth and GPSd</title> +</head> +<body background="paper.gif"> + +<p>Jean-Michel.Bouffard, who is at CRC in Canada says that he's using +the Socket Bluetooth GPS receiver with gpsd. Here are his notes. The +Bluetooth protocol is including a serial profile that makes the use of +the Bluetooth GPS almost like a serial GPS.</p> + +<ul> + +<li>First, the Bluez protcol stack must be installed and all the +documentation can be found on http://bluez.sourceforge.net/ +In my case, I installed it on a Linux PC with a BT USB dongle but I'm +still trying to install it on my 3850 iPaq with +a BT Sleeve. But once BT is installed, the rest is the same. + +<li>Install bluetooth for your device with the "rfcomm" module which is +the Serial profile (http://bluez.sourceforge.net/). + +<li>Next, load the modules : +<pre> + # modprobe hci_xxx (xxx depend on your type of device) + # modprobe bluez + # modprobe l2cap + # modprobe rfcomm +</pre> +<li>Note : you must be the root user for the next part... +<li>If the modules have loaded successfully, type "hciconfig" and you +should see your BT device listed under the "hci0" name. +<li>Create the BT serial device (To do once, it will still be there after +a reboot): +<pre> + # mknod /dev/rfcomm0 c 216 0 +</pre> +<li>Start your device and scan for remote BT device: +<pre> + # hciconfig hci0 up + # hcitool scan +</pre> + +<li>Write down the adress of the newly found BT GPS receiver (looks like +xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) + +<li>Connect to the device: +<pre> + # hcitool cc xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx +</pre> +<li>You can chack if the connection is done by doing : +<pre> + # hcitool con +</pre> +<li>Start the serial protocol over BT : +<pre> + # rfcomm /dev/rfcomm0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx +</pre> + +<li>After that, your BT GPS should be connected to /dev/rfcomm0 and you can +check by doing : +<pre> + # cat /dev/rfcomm0 +</pre> +to see the NMEA GPS output + +<li>You can then start gpsd like this: +<pre> + # gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm0 +</pre> +to specify the path of the GPS and it will work exactly like a serial GPS + +</ul> + +<p>If something is unclear, write me back and I will try to help you...</p> + +<p>Jean-Michel Bouffard</p> + +</body> +</html> |