It’s a beautiful little set up that lets you use your gps in multiple apps without clogging up the serial port by using gps-share and gpsd.
Getting gps data into firefox was as easy as setting up gpsd for me. Your /etc/default/gpsd you posted looks pretty good aside from the “/” in tty/AMA0, should just be ttyAMA0.
However, getting gps data in chrome involves loading in an extension yourself. You can look at that link if you are interested in enduring the same pain I’ve suffered
Perfect, thanks a lot! And @snipeytje too!!
The slash fixed it somewhat indeed, at leat getting some output on command line.
But you mentioned on Firefox it “just worked”? Im trying that now, but its giving an error without too much details after trying to give permissions
And i eventually wantt that Chrome plugin and GPS share etc, but seems a bit much for now
yes. firefox “just worked.” Mine was fully set up to use data from gpsd already. As long as you don’t have anything else using the gps, I don’t see why it shouldn’t work. I haven’t checked while only using gpsd, but from everything I have read on the matter it should work fine as long as gpsd is running, as long as nothing else is using the gps at the time.
Hmm ok, might try the full route shared in the other post then. I cant get get firefox or Gnome Maps to find anything.
BUT! For now i installed foxtrotgps, and that worked out of the box! And it has multiple terrain views also, and the option to mark locations with a tag. So exactly the basic features i was looking for in this weekends application.
I really just need to walk to the corners of a couple of lots of land i might buy, and log GPS coordinates. But this is Panama, it also helps in negotiations to impress the seller a bit,and the Uconsole will likely make more of an impact than a phone
HI, First time poster here - I am curious if anybody else has experienced a RTL-SDR that is intermittently present/absent in a lsusb command - I have got the RTC and GPS working beautifully, but the SDR is being elusive. I have re-flashed the firmware from the latest version as suggested in he video by “Jeremiah of All Trades”, but the SDR component is being elusive. I have had the board out - the soldering looks ok, and the edge connector is nice and clean.
@Rex so I’ve installed the DragonOS img and ran your hackergadgets script. Everything was working but suddenly there is no sound coming from the SDR++ app. I’ve checked everything including the checked box next to radio. I’ve even swapped the OS for Bookworm and it works just fine. Any ideas?
i was having the same issue as Frizard and was using the stock image. i downloaded the Dragon OS image from your google drive and am having issues flashing it with Balena. it is showing as a compressed image.. do i need to extract it before flashing? just before Balena finishes flashing it comes back with and error and the uconsole wont boot it. what am i doing wrong?
No need to decompress the file using normal flashing methods. Balena might not support compressed images though, not sure as I’ve never used it. Try raspberry pi imager without any custom settings.
