Difference between revisions of "GPSd position"
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== Display a GPS position == | == Display a GPS position == | ||
Sometimes it is useful to display an external GPS position on the GCS. That might be your ground station position (e.g. if operating from a moving ship) or you walking through the field with your laptop searching an outlanded aircraft. | |||
The external gps position will be displayed through a dark red dot surrounded by a black circle. If the gps data is lost/older than 10s the red dot will get a light red circle. | |||
[[Image:Gpsd_pos_ok.png|left|thumb|GPSd position ok]] | |||
[[Image:Gpsd_pos_lost.png|left|thumb|GPSd position is lost]] | |||
<br style="clear:both"> | |||
=== Using gpsd === | === Using gpsd === | ||
The GPS receiver could be connected through a serial port, USB, Bluetooth, a network, ... The gpsd package is used to interface to the receiver. On some Linux distributions the gpsd daemon is started automatically by default (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10) and might confuse the modem operation that also uses the serial/USB port. It is a good idea to disable the automatic startup of gpsd or at least change the configuration to only access one given port as described below. It can be turned off by running | |||
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gpsd | |||
There are several ways to tell gpsd how to connect to your receiver. The simplest is to start gpsd (as root) with the device you want. | |||
gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 | sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 | ||
If your GPS receiver is always connected to the same port (and can not be confused with another Paparazzi modem) you can put the device into '''/etc/default/gpsd''' and start gpsd automatically. There should be a way that udev takes care of that. | If your GPS receiver is always connected to the same port (and can not be confused with another Paparazzi modem) you can put the device into '''/etc/default/gpsd''' and start gpsd automatically. There should be a way that udev takes care of that. | ||
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DAEMON_OPTS="" | DAEMON_OPTS="" | ||
DEVICES="/dev/ttyS2" | DEVICES="/dev/ttyS2" | ||
USBAUTO="false" | USBAUTO="false"and start it through the '''GPSd position display''' in the Paparazzi Center Tools bar or by hand | ||
A Bluetooth GPS receiver can be configured in '''/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf'''. In this example it can be used as '''/dev/rfcomm0''' (put your GPS devices Bluetooth address). | A Bluetooth GPS receiver can be configured in '''/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf'''. In this example it can be used as '''/dev/rfcomm0''' (put your GPS devices Bluetooth address). | ||
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device 00:06:66:00:53:AE; | device 00:06:66:00:53:AE; | ||
} | } | ||
On some Linux distributions it is needed to bind the rfcomm | |||
sudo rfcomm bind 0 | |||
=== Using gpsd2ivy === | === Using gpsd2ivy === | ||
The small tool that gets the position info from gpsd and forwards that to the ivy bus so that the gcs can display it is called gpsd2ivy. It can be started through the '''GPSd position display''' in the Paparazzi Center Tools bar. | |||
For now you have to build gpsd2ivy by hand. | For now you have to build gpsd2ivy by hand. | ||
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make gpsd2ivy | make gpsd2ivy | ||
manually it is started by | |||
./gpsd2ivy | ./gpsd2ivy | ||
Revision as of 15:31, 3 February 2010
Display a GPS position
Sometimes it is useful to display an external GPS position on the GCS. That might be your ground station position (e.g. if operating from a moving ship) or you walking through the field with your laptop searching an outlanded aircraft.
The external gps position will be displayed through a dark red dot surrounded by a black circle. If the gps data is lost/older than 10s the red dot will get a light red circle.
Using gpsd
The GPS receiver could be connected through a serial port, USB, Bluetooth, a network, ... The gpsd package is used to interface to the receiver. On some Linux distributions the gpsd daemon is started automatically by default (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10) and might confuse the modem operation that also uses the serial/USB port. It is a good idea to disable the automatic startup of gpsd or at least change the configuration to only access one given port as described below. It can be turned off by running
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gpsd
There are several ways to tell gpsd how to connect to your receiver. The simplest is to start gpsd (as root) with the device you want.
sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0
If your GPS receiver is always connected to the same port (and can not be confused with another Paparazzi modem) you can put the device into /etc/default/gpsd and start gpsd automatically. There should be a way that udev takes care of that.
START_DAEMON="true" DAEMON_OPTS="" DEVICES="/dev/ttyS2" USBAUTO="false"and start it through the GPSd position display in the Paparazzi Center Tools bar or by hand
A Bluetooth GPS receiver can be configured in /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf. In this example it can be used as /dev/rfcomm0 (put your GPS devices Bluetooth address).
rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 00:06:66:00:53:AE;
}
On some Linux distributions it is needed to bind the rfcomm
sudo rfcomm bind 0
Using gpsd2ivy
The small tool that gets the position info from gpsd and forwards that to the ivy bus so that the gcs can display it is called gpsd2ivy. It can be started through the GPSd position display in the Paparazzi Center Tools bar.
For now you have to build gpsd2ivy by hand.
cd sw/ground_segment/tmtc make gpsd2ivy
manually it is started by
./gpsd2ivy