[Xastir] USB gps Receiver reccomended

[Andrew Errington]

It will work.

The GPS will appear as a serial device (in Linux /dev/ttyUSB0.  Not sure
about Macs, but it'll be somewhere).

73,

Andrew

On Saturday, 9 May 2015, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So if I get that particular USB GPS and it does not work on Macintosh, will
> it work on Ubuntu if I install a partition on my computer?
>
> On Friday, May 8, 2015, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 03:35:20PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> <javascript:;>> flavor,
> > containing:
> > > Running xastir on my macbook on mountain lion, what USB gps recevier
> will
> > > work?
> > >
> > > Will this one work?
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PKX2KA/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p422_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=0VM3811R2A427M91KB0W&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop
> > >
> > > Is it plug in and play, or do I need to set up code for it. Are USB
> gps's
> > > and compatible with xastir
> >
> > Xastir can't talk directly to USB gps units unless they provide virtual
> > serial port in some manner (some do, as do some bluetooth GPS units) ---
> > and I
> > can't speak to which units will do tha on OS X.  However Xastir *can*
> > connect
> > to a "gpsd" daemon, and gpsd is generally able to grok USB gps units of
> all
> > sorts.
> >
> > It works great on Linux machines but one of our Mac users on the group
> will
> > have to help you with getting gpsd set up on your machine.  On Linux it
> is
> > often as simple as telling a package manager to install gpsd, then
> plugging
> > in the gps -- gpsd gets started automagically, and then you just tell
> > Xastir
> > to connect to it (by creating a "networked gpsd" interface and starting
> it
> > up).  I have no idea if gpsd even runs on OS X, but it probably does.
> >
> > --
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> > [n-z][a-m]
> >
> >
> >
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