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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Bluetooth GPS in Linux with gpsd
I have the following no-name bluetooth-only gps device. When I plug it into the USB port of my computer for a recharge, it is seen as :
$lsusb
Bus 003 Device 011: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
I already have the bluetooth stack working on Ubuntu so I could make a bluetooth scan for it. The gadget presents itself as GT-750F :
$hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:0B:0D:76:83:73 GT-750F
Following the instructions at http://gpsd.berlios.de/bt.html, I added the following section into /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf :
rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:0B:0D:76:83:73;
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Description of the connection
comment "GPS GT-750F";
}
I then launched gpsd with the following command :
sudo gpsd -D 2 -N /dev/rfcomm0
and using xgps and gpsdrive, I saw that it al worked fine.
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