fake nmea device

Christian Rüb christian.rueb at gmx.net
Sat Jan 9 16:03:11 CET 2010


Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2010 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 12:44:36 schrieb Christian Rüb:
> > Hi
> > 
> > as I am still debugging my Qt dbus problem I installed DSO packages from
> >  [1] on my local Debian box. But I do not have a real GPS and no
> >  blueetooth. So, is there a way to fake a GPS device (something like
> >  cat'ing a NMEA log to a FIFO) to trick frameworkd?
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >  Christian
> 
> What about gpsfake[1].? Should be part of gpsd-clients in debian.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> [1] http://gpsd.berlios.de/gpsfake.html

Thanks, I tried it but it starts a gpsd and I have found no way to tell frameworkd from gpsd.

What I need is something that writes to a (pseudo) serial line that I frameworkd could read from.



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