GPS NMEA sentences over serial port

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 09:42:32 CEST 2009


RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> writes:
> Is it possible to setup a serial connection between the FR and the
> laptop using a virtual comm port or USB to serial converter and then
> read the GPS NMEA sentences?Please advice me.

Are you sure you want to do that? gpsd is designed in a way to be
possible to get gps data over the network. And fso-gpsd can do that
too.

Just connect FR and laptop in some way (USB/BT/Wifi) and you're done.

If you really want to forward serial port, you can use socat for that.

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