fake nmea device

Alexander Lehner lehner at edv-buero-lehner.de
Sat Jan 9 13:25:38 CET 2010



On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Christian Rüb wrote:

> 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?


Maybe:

freerunner>opkg install gps-utils

debianhost> mkfifo pipe
debianhost> ssh root at freerunner gpspipe -r > pipe


Alex.


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