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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:45:04 +0100 (BST)
From:      Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
To:        Vittorio De Martino <vittorio@de-martino.it>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tomtom serial connection
Message-ID:  <1176932705.139657.28489.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org>
In-Reply-To: <200704182116.02303.vittorio@de-martino.it>
References:  <200704102004.34814.vittorio@de-martino.it> <200704171941.05976.vittorio@de-martino.it> <bb4a86c70704171220s4f93f7dbi30de655b3168da39@mail.gmail.com> <200704182116.02303.vittorio@de-martino.it>

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Vittorio De Martino wrote:

> What I would like to do is to read gps data position in NMEA format
> (I've read somewhere that this is the standard for tomtom).

Yeah, but where did you read that?

> In other words by means of a terminal like minicom and a
> /dev/somethingIdontknow I would read the flow of data position while
> read by the gps device. In a nutshell to capture them.

on that opentom.org wiki you posted a link to, there seems to be such
capability - but opentom is a replacement OS for the device, you need to
build it and put it on your SD card and reboot the machine (I think)

I don't see anything saying you can access the GPS raw data over bluetooth
with the basic operating system..

iain



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