QNavitCtl - Navit Bookmarks via dbus

[Christian Rüb]

Hi Ed,

to build it on your PC, you need to have qmake (from Qt) installed.
Then simply run
#qmake
(the name may differ, liket qmake-qt4 or something)
This will create your Makefile, then simply run
#make
and you are done, you will get one binary called "qnavitcl" - that's it.

If you want to build for your Openmoko phone, use my bitbake recipe here (simply copy to your OE tree) and it will build the package for you.

If you want a prebuilt binary - get it from here [1] (you'll also get dependencies from there). It is built for SHR-U.

Have you enabled dbus in navit.xml? This is essential.

Use dbus-send to get a navit instance and then you can control it through the path you get back. Have a look at [2] how I did it in Qt:
registerNavitInstance() and setCenter() will be of most interest for you.

If you use dbus-send, you also need to print the replies - otherwise you cannot use them ;-) - see man page for futher details

BUT - with current version of navit I could not get it to work as the dbus interface seems to have changed - "iter" does not exist anymore and I have not found a way yet to get an instance and set destination :(

Cheers,
 Christian

[1] http://openmoko.senfdax.de/shr-new-unstable/
[2] http://git.senfdax.de/?p=qnavitctl;a=blob;f=src/mainwindow.cpp;h=a7b076db790971245b2d4c6769f13ba92b194b3e;hb=a3d4e3ea1506321d09a735e69810e3be01ccc860

> Hi Christian,
> 
> i am trying to use navit and dbus, but so far i haven't find out how to
> do it.
> I did download your source, but how do i build it?
> ( real noob here...)
> Could you explain how to build it from source?
> I am used to ./configure, make, make install
> 
> Can you give an example of dbus-send to set a destination in navit?
> i want, like you, to have a list of waypoints and i want to set waypoint
> 2 as destination, as soon as i am near waypoint 1.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ed
> 
> Christian Rüb wrote:
> > I wrote a little Qt app to send destination or position to Navit via dbus (needs to be activated in navit.xml first) or center the map.
> > package [1]
> > source [2]
> > screenshot [3]
> >
> > How to use it:
> > create a file with name;lat;lon per line and start the program. If the file is named bookmarks.csv and placed in $HOME or the directory where qnavitctl is started this file is automatically loaded.
> >
> > Why a program that does what Navit already can do?
> >  - for me it is a quick fix for #352 in navit
> >  - for my 1k+ trip I have to prepare intermdeiate stops as otherwise route calculation would take very long (if it would succeed at all), so I can have my navit window and another window to set next destination easily
> >  - it is an example how to talk to navit via dbus and could be used for other apps (e.g. litephone) to get coordinates (e.g. from opimd) and start navigation in navit through a button (e.g. you receive a text containing coordinates, press "take me there" and the coordinates are send as destination to navit via dbus)
> >  - I am still learning Qt :)
> >
> > That's all
> >
> > [1] http://openmoko.senfdax.de/shr-unstable/
> > [2] http://git.senfdax.de/?p=qnavitctl;a=summary
> > [3] http://openmoko.senfdax.de/screenshots/qnavitctl.png
> >
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