Gypsy Hacking

Last night I sat down and hacked a bit more on my Gypsy status monitoring tool thingy. Basically, it shows you all of the information from the GPS, and is mainly useful for checking that the data being sent by Gypsy makes sense.

Gypsy Status

It still needs a fair amount of work, the layout of the labels on the left is clearly sub-optimal and I'd like to have a marker on the satellite image to precisely locate you, but apart from that it's coming together nicely.

NP: Storm, Heather Nova

10:30 Monday, 17 Dec 2007 [#] [computers] (8 comments)

Posted by Priit Laes at Mon Dec 17 11:33:38 2007:
Sweet.. Any code? :)

I've been trying to get Gypsy working with USB GPS but so far no luck. It just doesn't show any data sent from the GPS..
Posted by Ross at Mon Dec 17 11:54:21 2007:
Yeah, its in a bzr repository at burtonini.com/bzr/.  I expect my apache problem will cause the checkout of fail though.

Try running gypsy as root in a terminal with --no-daemon --nmea-log=foo to get lots of debugging information.
Posted by Rob Bradford at Mon Dec 17 12:55:13 2007:
Sweet!
Posted by daniels at Mon Dec 17 14:23:40 2007:
I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.
Posted by Ross at Mon Dec 17 14:33:57 2007:
So does everyone who looks at my flickr stream. :)
Posted by Ian Lawrence at Mon Dec 17 18:14:56 2007:
Hi
This is really cool..i never knew the problems inherent in gpsd until i read Iains post to the geoclue list...i have been playing around and created a package of gypsy for lpia (the ubuntu mobile architecture) as i guess you guys at o-h will be doing one for armel .. i just need to hunt down some cheap gps device now to play with it for real!!
keep rockin' dude
Posted by Ross at Mon Dec 17 18:58:42 2007:
Hit ebay and you can find GPS devices based on the "737" chipset for about £20.
Posted by daniels at Tue Dec 18 10:16:37 2007:
Just look for the house with the car crashed into the front?

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