[maemo-developers] How to fire up gps daemon from command line - wanna build GPS app on N810

[From: Ryan Pavlik]

John wrote:
> I am new to maemo development and just got an N810.
>
> I have found out that if the gps daemon is started, it will stream
> NMEA ascii to a pseudo-tty which I can then easily read.
>
> However, in my tinkering, the way I started the daemon was to fire off
> the Nokia mapping app. But when I did a
> *tail -f* on the tty, after a few seconds the feed stopped.
>
> I suspect the mapping app was no longer getting data once I was
> tailing the tty, and shut down the daemon.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> John in Phoenix, AZ, USA
>
I'd look at how Maemo Mapper accesses the gps, or look up "gpsd" which
is the software used for the GPS.  When it's not against the license,
learning from examples is best. :)

Ryan

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