news 28 Posted May 29, 2017 Hi, I just tagged the very first release of gps-share: https://github.com/zeenix/gps-share/releases/tag/0.1.0 ---- gps-share is a utility to share your GPS device on local network. It has two goals: * Share your GPS device on the local network so that all machines in your home or office can make use of it. * Enable support for standalone (i-e not part of a cellular modem) GPS devices in Geoclue. Since Geoclue has been able to make use of network NMEA sources since 2015, gps-share works out of the box with Geoclue. The latter means that it is a replacement for GPSD[1] and Gypsy[2]. While "why not GPSD?" has already been documented[3], Gypsy has been unmaintained for many years now. I did not feel like reviving a dead project and I really wanted to code in Rust so I decided to create gps-share. ## Dependencies While cargo manages the Rust crates gps-share depend on, you'll also need the following on your host: * libdbus * libudev * libcap * xz-libs ## Supported devices gps-share currently only supports GPS devices that present themselves as serial port (RS232). Many USB are expected to work out of the box but bluetooth devices need manual intervention to be mounted as serial port devices through rfcomm command. The following command worked on my Fedora 25 machine for a TomTom Wireless GPS MkII. sudo rfcomm connect 0 00:0D:B5:70:54:75 gps-share can autodetect the device to use if it's already mounted as a serial port but it assumes a baudrate of 38400. You can manually set the device node to use by passing the device node path as argument and set the baudrate using the '-b' commandline option. Pass '--help' for a full list of supported options. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpsd [2] https://gypsy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ [3] https://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
