[TriLUG] gpsd, gpsdrive, friendsd2 ???`

Dean Price deano at price4.org
Mon Sep 27 10:58:03 EDT 2004


Also top-posted....

Thanks Jon, not quite what we are looking for... ie...

gps unit will be on persons body, attached to wireless network, passing data 
to server at the end. 

Your idea would work but sounds like too much hardware.


On Monday 27 September 2004 10:33, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Some options (top posted - so get over it)
>  - write a non-gui wrapper to attach to your gui-gps-application
>  - Use a secondary machine (as your wrapper), one that takes the non-gui
> connection and then passes on the requests/data via a gui connection to
> your gui-gps-application
>
> The world is full of such gateways.
>
> Good Luck - Jon Carnes
>
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:05, Dean Price wrote:
> > Ok here is obscurity at it's best...
> >
> > We have a system that we are working on that involves connecting a
> > headless (non-X) gpsd client to a gps tracking server (with gui), in our
> > current setup we are using "gpsdrive" on our server.
> >
> > However, we cannot seem to pass the data to the server without running
> > the gui gpsdrive client...
> >
> > Any help with this or even recommedations on software packages that can
> > do what we need would be helpfull
> >
> > --
> > Thank You,
> > Dean Price
> > deano at price4.org

-- 
Thank You,
Dean Price
deano at price4.org



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