Neo 1973 GPS

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The Neo1973 device contains an integrated GPS. The particular device is marketed as an AGPS, and there is some discussion available as to what significance that "A" might have.

Note that the GTA02 device (not yet available) contains a different GPS chip (see http://www.u-blox.com/products/atr0635.html and/or http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=3932 for specs).

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GTA01 GPS driver (gllin)

Main article - gllin

The GPS driver is available here: http://3rdparty.downloads.openmoko.org/gllin/. It is a command line tool that after starting writes the positioning data so that they can be read as if they were written to the file.

And here the Mail from Michael Shiloh http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011916.html


In the very early shipment to 50 Phase 1 developers, a binary-only program for talking to the the GPS was accidentally included in /home/root/DM2/gps, (and presumably, the same binary would function on a P0 device). This binary is called gllin and it is a oabi binary, i.e. it will only work in the 2007.1 OpenMoko environment. There is now a eabi binary, which works with 2007.2.

There was an effort to write a Free Software program that could be used instead of this binary-only program, but this stalled after the decision to change GPS chips in GTA02.

See Hammerhead/Protocol for details and the latest status.

Some scripts for those with the binary are on Manually_using_GPS

Please see the important information on Gllin!

GTA02 GPS

To turn on the GPS, echo 1 to the file ./devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron

To read from the GPS, simply read /dev/ttySAC1.

cat /dev/ttySAC1 will work fine.

I have been unable to get a fix, and the GPS spits out lots of $GPTXT,01,01,01,NMEA unknown msg*58

Which have no apparent meaning. --Speedevil 11:52, 7 April 2008 (CEST)


Possible GPS programs

As people develop more sophisticated GPS applications, please note them here.

Here are some ideas for possibilities:

  • Cairo-based mapping
  • Routing
  • Openstreetmap a map viewer, annotation, and editing system.
  • Pyroute is a routing program written in Python by Ojw, and a mobile phone GUI for maps, GPS, and routing.
  • GPS-Trail a simple trail logger.
  • roadmap mapping system using freely available maps (US census TIGER, DGLib, shapefiles).
  • Geocaching paper chase for advanced users
  • Set Profile (Mute, etc.) to coordinates (ex. At work)
  • qpegps qtopia (arm PDA) based map viewer with gps features
  • Navit a car navigation system with routing engine.
  • TangoGPS works very well, downloads maps on demand and stores them for later use, very efficient.
  • QMapControl Qtopia based mapping widget. Displays maps and custom data, also other widgets can be bound to coordinates. GPS parser for the gllin output included.
  • collection of ideas
  • Cumulus GPS software for glider pilots (and pilots in general), has a port for Qtopia and pulls (world) maps from the KFLog flight planner project. I think someone has put a project like this on the projects website here.

Using the Neo's GPS on a Laptop

  • First be sure you have gllin installed on the Neo.
  • On host type: nc -vvn -l -p 5000 > /tmp/nmeaNP
  • On the Neo type: nc 192.168.0.200 5000 < /tmp/nmeaNP
  • On the host PC install GPSD, your GPS is attached as /tmp/nmeaNP
  • start gpsd on host with: gpsd -p /tmp/nmeaNP
  • run your application! I used gpsdrive and it works better than my stand-alone GPS.
  • Tested with RoadNav.Works great!
  • With this in mind if you have an unlimited data package you could export this over the internet.
  • the possibilities are limitless.

Bluetooth GPS relay

To make your neo appear like a regular bluetooth GPS:

  • Power up the bluetooth radio
  • Run the gllin script
  • run sdptool add SP
  • run rfcomm watch 0 1 sh -c "cat /tmp/nmeaNP >/dev/rfcomm0" &
Personal tools

The Neo1973 device contains an integrated GPS. The particular device is marketed as an AGPS, and there is some discussion available as to what significance that "A" might have.

Note that the GTA02 device (not yet available) contains a different GPS chip (see http://www.u-blox.com/products/atr0635.html and/or http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=3932 for specs).

GTA01 GPS driver (gllin)

Main article - gllin

The GPS driver is available here: http://3rdparty.downloads.openmoko.org/gllin/. It is a command line tool that after starting writes the positioning data so that they can be read as if they were written to the file.

And here the Mail from Michael Shiloh http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011916.html


In the very early shipment to 50 Phase 1 developers, a binary-only program for talking to the the GPS was accidentally included in /home/root/DM2/gps, (and presumably, the same binary would function on a P0 device). This binary is called gllin and it is a oabi binary, i.e. it will only work in the 2007.1 OpenMoko environment. There is now a eabi binary, which works with 2007.2.

There was an effort to write a Free Software program that could be used instead of this binary-only program, but this stalled after the decision to change GPS chips in GTA02.

See Hammerhead/Protocol for details and the latest status.

Some scripts for those with the binary are on Manually_using_GPS

Please see the important information on Gllin!

GTA02 GPS

To turn on the GPS, echo 1 to the file ./devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron

To read from the GPS, simply read /dev/ttySAC1.

cat /dev/ttySAC1 will work fine.

I have been unable to get a fix, and the GPS spits out lots of $GPTXT,01,01,01,NMEA unknown msg*58

Which have no apparent meaning. --Speedevil 11:52, 7 April 2008 (CEST)


Possible GPS programs

As people develop more sophisticated GPS applications, please note them here.

Here are some ideas for possibilities:

  • Cairo-based mapping
  • Routing
  • Openstreetmap a map viewer, annotation, and editing system.
  • Pyroute is a routing program written in Python by Ojw, and a mobile phone GUI for maps, GPS, and routing.
  • GPS-Trail a simple trail logger.
  • roadmap mapping system using freely available maps (US census TIGER, DGLib, shapefiles).
  • Geocaching paper chase for advanced users
  • Set Profile (Mute, etc.) to coordinates (ex. At work)
  • qpegps qtopia (arm PDA) based map viewer with gps features
  • Navit a car navigation system with routing engine.
  • TangoGPS works very well, downloads maps on demand and stores them for later use, very efficient.
  • QMapControl Qtopia based mapping widget. Displays maps and custom data, also other widgets can be bound to coordinates. GPS parser for the gllin output included.
  • collection of ideas
  • Cumulus GPS software for glider pilots (and pilots in general), has a port for Qtopia and pulls (world) maps from the KFLog flight planner project. I think someone has put a project like this on the projects website here.

Using the Neo's GPS on a Laptop

  • First be sure you have gllin installed on the Neo.
  • On host type: nc -vvn -l -p 5000 > /tmp/nmeaNP
  • On the Neo type: nc 192.168.0.200 5000 < /tmp/nmeaNP
  • On the host PC install GPSD, your GPS is attached as /tmp/nmeaNP
  • start gpsd on host with: gpsd -p /tmp/nmeaNP
  • run your application! I used gpsdrive and it works better than my stand-alone GPS.
  • Tested with RoadNav.Works great!
  • With this in mind if you have an unlimited data package you could export this over the internet.
  • the possibilities are limitless.

Bluetooth GPS relay

To make your neo appear like a regular bluetooth GPS:

  • Power up the bluetooth radio
  • Run the gllin script
  • run sdptool add SP
  • run rfcomm watch 0 1 sh -c "cat /tmp/nmeaNP >/dev/rfcomm0" &