ROS on Freerunner

[Jan Tuennermann]

Hi Neil, hi Boudewijn,

thanks for the suggestions. I understand that there are probably more 
usefull ways to get GPS info out of the Moko. Right now I'm trying it in 
the context of creating a complete ROS integration, so that all the 
phone's sensors will publish their information as ROS messages. This 
will be useful for using the phone as a control unit on a robot, but 
probably not  for it's original intention as a phone ;)
I think the one could easily forward the port gpsd uses to run tangogps 
on a remote PC. That's probably what you described, Boudewijn. Did the 
GPRS connection prove reliable enough for this?

Jan

Am -10.01.-28163 20:59, schrieb W. B. Kranendonk:
> --- On Tue, 4/19/11, Neil Jerram<neiljerram at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>> Am 19.04.2011 um 09:46 schrieb
>>>        
>> Jan Tuennermann:
>>
>>      
>>> Right now I'm trying to get a gpsd_client node to run
>>>        
>> on the OpenMoko. On a
>>      
>>> remote PC a gpsd_viewer node will run, subscribing
>>>        
>> gpsFix messages which it
>>      
>    
>> viewer: note that this is very similar to using the
>> OpenMoko as a GPS
>> receiver and exporting that information to another device
>> over
>> Bluetooth.
>>      
> Apart from exporting over Bluetooth, will you have an IP connection between the devices? I guess so, how else to receive *any* info in the viewer :-)
>
> Anyway: using foxtrotgps for example, I enter the port for gpsd. I always expected it to default to localhost if nothing else was supplied; I recall using tangogps on a laptop configured to connect to IP:port of the Freerunner that was traveling with family and connected via GPRS. That's a while ago though and time and alcohol made the memory not too detailed ;-)
>
> Boudewijn
>
>
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