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Selecting "Bluetooth GPS" and leaving the field blank is correct behavior. In fact, from the perspective of the backing libgpsmgr API, confusingly, that is exactly what should be done for the N810. It's counter-intuitive, yeah, but it shouldn't keep you from being able to use the Maemo Mapper on your N810.

In fact, the built-in help file (also available online) mentions this explicitly:

This really is a by-product of the API provided by libgpsmgr/libgpsbt, the GPS API provided by Maemo. For some strange reason, to use the internal GPS, Maemo Mapper literally has to provide an empty string to libgpsbt. I should probably change the UI to reflect that, or at least remove "/dev/pgps" as the default.

Thanks for the clarification and all your hard work gnuite!

Yup, that was it, thanks! Funny that it got turned off after the update... I always miss the obvious things

iirc, the "back" is by default set to toggle tracks, and i suspect that includes routes.

its easy to bump it and miss the message. and then the only real way to tell that its off is by there being no scale indicator at the bottom of the screen (next to the zoom number).

You are correct, it would be especially if it happened to work with my Kenwood D7g, however from what I have been able to find on TNC use with the NIT (which as I am sure you know, isnt exactly the most popular search on google) serial ports don't work reliably and one of the most relaible so far has been a particular bluetooth TNC (which I can not find my link to at the moment)

I was certainly looking into a bluetooth serial port before to use when I have to configure switches already deployed in closets around (that way I would have to actually stand in the hot closet I could sit outside it and work.) But I couldn't find anyone who said 'This BT serial port works without having to run a custom compiled kernel with all these mods inserted...' etc.. I would much rather keep my N810 as is and find another solution.

Course I also want a BT OBDII adapter to use with carman but between that, the serial port, and the TNC I would be looking at $1000.00 in bluetooth accessories..

I don't know where I will end up with this, probably start with the serial port and go from there, as it would be a multitasker.


-John

I've had good luck with a prolific USB to serial (wired) adapter, interfacing my NIT to a D7.

Its also worth noting, if someone has the skillset and time, a software TNC can be ported for NITs: http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/ Of course a USB to serial adapter will still be needed for PTT.

I know I'm stepping in on this late, but has anyone come up with a tool to create the database for Maemo Mapper on another computer? I'd love to be able to build a map database on another machine and import it to my tablet. It'd make things a lot nicer.

In this post, gnuite says that Winmapper should work now.

I have heard that, but for me bluetooth is the way to go. I want to mount the radio in the trunk and leave the NIT in its mount on my dash.

I will look into soundmodem and if its possible I will try to port it and see what happens...

-John

Well, I might have been unclear. I said that this new version should fix the cross-platform limitations of GDBM that were making it impossible to fix Winmapper. So, theoretically, Winmapper is fixable, but I don't know if anyone has fixed it (i.e. changed it to write to a database instead of a directory structure), yet.