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Hi everyone
I recently bought a P1i and I have a few questions about using GPS with the P1i.
Obviously I need to use a Bluetooth GPS receiver.
Are there any recommended brands I should look for?
Or will any bluetooth GPS receiver work?
What sort of battery life can I get from a Bluetooth GPS receiver?
Would it be able to do a whole day of recording position every 1-5 minutes?
Or would I have to limit it to 30mins-1hr?
I want to use my GPS for recording my routes whilst mountainbiking and snowboarding, so is there any software out there which will just record GPS waypoints and give me my current longitude/latitude and GPS status?
I don't need any maps or road maps with the GPS software. Just some good software for displaying my current position and recording to GPX XML files.
Also what I'd love to be able to do is be recording my co-ordinates every say 1-5 minutes.
And then every 30-45 minutes have that information sent to a web form on my server.
I can write an XML-RPC interface easily for this.
Or I just need to find some GPS software for my P1i which will let me upload the contents of a GPX file into a web form.
But GPS software with basic HTTP XML-RPC support would be even better.
So if I can get my P1i updating my location to a website automatically on a schedule, from within my trail pack, that would be awesome!
I'm planning to cycle the length of the England and Scotland in a few months for the 3rd time, and this would be a really cool feature to have on our website, so everyone can track our progress in almost real-time!
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks, Ben
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Posted: 2008-02-11 17:04:16
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Try gpsed
http://gpsed.com/
You can log your entire route and display it on google maps.
The wayfinder gps unit that came with my p1i is very quick at finding satellites.
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Posted: 2008-02-11 20:44:29
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My CPIT GP-27 claims to have a 20 hour usage on full charge...
Not tested it personally...
- I suppose you could always carry a second battery...
HTH
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Posted: 2008-02-11 21:14:27
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you may want to look at the hge-100 if battery is a big concern
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Posted: 2008-02-11 22:39:24
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I am afraid you chose the 'wrong' device
It shouted have been ways easier like this:
http://digitalurban.blogspot.[....]-gps-trackinggoogle-earth.html
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Posted: 2008-02-14 00:46:58
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I use a
Holux M-1200 receiver with my P1i. It's got a MTK-chipset which is quite speedy (from cold start to aquisition
For recording gps data, I'd recommend
TrekBuddy. It's a lil time consuming to setup, but it does exactly what you want it to do: record in gpx (or raw nmea data) at intervals you specify for as long as you like. The so-called "CMS"-screen is customizable and displays all you want to know (3D position, velocity, travelled distance and all that good stuff). There's also a ton of other options, so browsing the forum over there isn't a bad idea.
I don't think it supports uploading to a webserver though.
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Posted: 2008-02-14 11:01:01
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Hi Krispy
That Holux device looks good!
16 hours will certainly be enough for a day of biking.
How do you find the reliability of the Holux M 1200/TrekBuddy combination?
The worst thing would be to finish a day biking/skiing and find it's crashed and not recorded the day's route or something.
Trekbuddy looks good for the recording side of things.
I'll ask in the forums and see if it's possible to get it to upload to a PHP script or something. As that would be really cool.
Uploading the last 30mins worth of route every 30mins -1hr
GPSED also looks good but I want it to upload to my own MySQL database and use my own Google Map API, not theirs.
Thanks for all your help so far!
I've never owned a GPS device before so it's all a bit of a mystery.
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Posted: 2008-02-14 13:23:17
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LOL, neither have I. This is my first one.
The combo M-1200/TrekBuddy seems reliable. I used while going on a day out with my girlfriend (using the train and going in and out of buildings a lot) and it worked all day, so no problems there.
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Posted: 2008-02-15 10:52:03
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