Comments on: TomTom One and GNU Linux

By: Riley

Riley — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:49:52 +0000

Great! You have done exactly what I am attempting to do, but have found myself stuck. I am running ubuntu and have a compatible tomtom device. I have managed to find it using hcitool scan and then connected to the device using :
rfcomm connect /dev/rfcomm1 1

Then on my gps I am told that I have connected, cat /dev/rfcomm1 also seems to agree with my theory that its properly connected. I can even telnet into the device.

However when I try to use it in conjunction with a pgoram, like gpsd or gpsdrive I can not get the GPS to function. Can you possibly assist me to overcome this problem. Have I missed a step somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

By: Chris_debian

Chris_debian — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:04:45 +0000

Interesting information. Anyone manage to find a satnav unit that has UK coverage, and can be updated from a Linux box? It seems that TT do not support Linux updates.

Cheers,

Chris.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:50:42 +0000

Tak a look at this post:

http://safle.org/wordpress/2006/11/13/tomtom-one-and-mac-gps.html

Regards,
Stephen

By: Tra Mac

Tra Mac — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:43:07 +0000

Can I get instructions on how to instal a “bluetooth listener” on my tomtom one?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:28:55 +0000

Great idea Fred – although I’m not sure I really have a need to do this.

Regards,
Stephen

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:10:46 +0000

If you can get a touchscreen-aware java browser running you could have UltraVNC’s java app to control a car PC.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:28:25 +0000

I presume you have the bluetooth listener running on the TomTom already (as described above). If so, all that you seem to be missing is the correct rfcomm command. Rfcomm’s bind command creates a binding but does not open a connection. What you need is the rfcomm connect command:

% rfcomm connect 0 00:13:6C:83:D1:8C

Regards,
Stephen

By: bs

bs — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:19:34 +0000

But how can I read /dev/gpsdata?

# rfcomm bind /dev/rfcomm0 00:13:6C:83:D1:8C
# rfcomm
rfcomm0: 00:13:6C:83:D1:8C channel 1 clean
#cat /dev/gpsdata
cat: /dev/gpsdata: No such file or directory
# cat /dev/rfcomm0
cat: /dev/rfcomm0: Connection refused

Thank you very much again

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:45:06 +0000

It depends what you want to use it *for* with your Ubuntu laptop. The bundled software does not have an Ubuntu version (nore even a Linux version, despite the OS of the device being Linux). Thus you will not be able to use all the planning and update software with this laptop.

What I describe above is the ability to basically hack the SatNav system and use its GPS in your laptop’s applications. You *can* do this, but you’ll need a Mac (or if you can’t find anything better, a Windows) laptop/PC to use it as an ordinary SatNav.

Regards,
Stephen

By: bs

bs — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:29:45 +0000

Hi,
I would like buy a new SatNav and I’m not very expert.
Can you confirm that I can use the tomtom one with my
ubuntu laptop? (via I would like use it whit kismet etc..

Thank you very much