[maemo-developers] How can I test a GPS application without using the device?

[From: Brad Midgley]

Andrea

I haven't tried with n810 yet, but making gumstix or neo1973 act as a
bluetooth gps is fairly straightforward as long as gpspipe is
installed.

sdptool add SP
rfcomm -r watch 0 1 sh -c "/usr/bin/gpspipe -r >/dev/rfcomm0" &

Brad

On Feb 7, 2008 9:42 AM, Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to write a Python application that interface itself to GPS
> (using gpsd). I'd like to be able to develop it on my PC as well,
> without using the real hardware. Not because I don't want to use my
> N810, but because I should use it outside to test it!
>
> I've discovered this application: http://gpsfeed.sourceforge.net/
>
> "gpsfeed+ is a utility that feeds the PC with continuous GPS data as
> if a GPS were moving in a car or airplane. NMEA 0183 GPS sentences are
> sent to the application through a socket (TCP/IP) connection or a UDP
> multicast message.!"
>
> but I still cannot understand if it works also with gpsd.
>
> I'd like to test it on my Ubuntu machine, but while Maemo uses this
> library for python-gps:
> http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/documentation/python_gps_examples/index.html
>
> Linux seems to have a totally different library. I did "apt-get
> install python-gps" the unique python gps library available in
> repository and it comes without any documentation.
>
> So I've to develop in Scratchbox at least.... but I would need a GPS
> "simulator", a very simple one... so I could test a GPS application
> even in Scratchbox environment, without using a real GPS device.
>
> Any idea? What are, all those people that wrote a gps-application,
> using to test it? In particular maemo-mapper, gps-camera ecc.....
>
> Thanks for your support!
>
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> Andrea Grandi
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Brad