[maemo-users] N810 GPS and bluetooth

[From: Jesper Cheetah]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:06:36PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > Related but different question: Can the N810 internal GPS be used by
> > other devices as a bluetooth GPS?
> 
> at least it should be possible to connect to its gpsd via IP.

My solution a while back was to configure /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf so
that my bluetooth GPS receiver was accessible as /dev/rfcomm0. I then
created my own init script to start gpsd to, let it read from
/dev/rfcomm0. Gpsd would only start reading from the device when there
were clients requesting data; no problem in letting it run even when
un-needed.. Maemo mapper, kismet, etc could then share the gps by
reading from gpsd.

I can't seem to get rfcomm to install from the apt-get or application
manager. But I found it here and installed it with dpkg:
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/b/bluez-utils/

-- 
Jesper Cheetah