[maemo-developers] Accessing GPS data remotely

[From: Tuomas Kulve]

Andrew Daviel wrote:
> I want to access the GPS data from my N810 from a Linux laptop over WiFi.
> (or, possibly, Bluetooth or the USB cable)
> 
> The "regular" gpsd server listens on 2947 on all interfaces, so that I 
> should be able to just run cgps or xgps on the laptop. But gpsd on the 
> N810 seems to only listen on loopback.


 osso-gpsd (1.0-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Listen only localhost addresses. Fixes: NB#60842

> Is there any config item to change this behaviour ?
> Should I file a bug report ?

Looks like it's intentional, so filing a bug report would be probably
resolved as invalid.

> It seems silly to have to write extra interface applications when the 
> existing server ought to do it directly.

I think it would be quite a security risk if anybody could just connect
to your device and get your location.

I guess it's easy to change that in the osso-gpsd, so it would listen to
external connections as well. But you might want to make some
restrictions to it still.

-- 
Tuomas


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