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Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has used the N800 for satellite tracking. Last I heard Java runtime 6 was still not running on the N800, is this still the case (I'm waiting for a replacement N800 at the mo)? If JRE 6 was running, I could use Satscape for Java (www.satscape.co.uk).

Regards,

Paul
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yea, i'd like to see a sat tracker for maemo also.
maybe someone might kindly port over petittrack:

http://www.qsl.net/n1vtn/petittrack.html

might fit your needs?
seems like it would be simple to do considering it's on the Zarus......right?
any thoughts or help on this anyone?

Thanks!
matt

petittrack looks interesting, but it's a Qtopia application at the moment. I haven't seen it before so at least I'll have a look at it (I don't know Qtopia at all).

Friends of mine are doing some porting/testing work in this area, so things might happen there at some stage - albeit that stage could be way up in the future.

In the meantime I'll dig out my old Zaurus and try the petittrack - thanks for the link!

no problem - i stumbled on this awhile ago just surfing around.
in general (i'm not any type of linux coder..though i aspire to be...) would it be "easy" to port stuff from Qtopia to maemo?
both being Arm processors, seems like thats half the battle!

-Matt, KF6WEY <- and that's why i'm interested!

I've used Petit track on an Zaurus before to track "certain" sats I needed to use in Bosnia years ago.
Worked really well, allowing me to input my GPS grid so I could find the proper azimuth and elevation to aim the antenna and a compass and protractor.
Would be nice if someone could port it over from QT to Maemo/Hildon.
Throw in bluetooth GPS capabilities and it's a near-perfect application for some people.

bump

Anyone have an update on a satellite tracking program for Maemo?

http://www.satsig.net/
save the ssazelm page to local file as it's been done entirely in javascript, and then you can use it offline

Well, my humble Mephemeris application has the ability to plot the position of satellites, along with typical stars, planets, etc.. It was not designed for that purpose, so doesn't have a nifty real time/rapid refresh mode that you might desire/expect:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19545

Thanks for the link. I installed Mephemeris, but haven't read up on it yet. Would it be possible to grab the Keplerian elements such as http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/amateur.txt and plot their footprints over the globe similar to:

?


EDIT: I got InstantTrack running with exceptional performance via DOSbox. Now I can view birds as they fly over the map:

Pocketsat+ for Palm works fine in GVM.