External Bluetooth GPS

[Guest unholyimp]

Hiya all,

Just found a program for external Bluetooth GPS device.

downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/p/bluegps4droid/home/

Installed it to my advent and the application seems to run ok and I can see my Bluetooth dongle. Great NEWS!!!

Now for the bad news.

Everytime I try to connect my BT-GPS it starts to connect and then I get a message pop-up saying disconnected due to too many connections.

I don't have any other BT devices connected or paired at the time.

Any ideas how I could get this to work??

I thought I had found a way of getting the advent up and working GPS

[Guest andycap]

Hiya all,

Just found a program for external Bluetooth GPS device.

downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/p/bluegps4droid/home/

Installed it to my advent and the application seems to run ok and I can see my Bluetooth dongle. Great NEWS!!!

Now for the bad news.

Everytime I try to connect my BT-GPS it starts to connect and then I get a message pop-up saying disconnected due to too many connections.

I don't have any other BT devices connected or paired at the time.

Any ideas how I could get this to work??

I thought I had found a way of getting the advent up and working GPS

I am currently using an app from the market called Bluetooth gps provider. It works perfectly and is free.

Sent from my Vega.

[Guest unholyimp]

Thanks for that

:)

[Guest crockwit]

I am using a very cheap bluetooth gps receiver from Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT It costs £4.99 post paid. It has a mains charger for the battery and a car charger. I use it with the Bluetooth gps provider app and it works with Google Maps. It is a Wayfinder brand. It seems they are owned by Vodaphone but are now defunct.

Edited December 10, 2010 by crockwit

[Guest trevor432990]

I am using a very cheap bluetooth gps receiver from Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT It costs £4.99 post paid. It has a mains charger for the battery and a car charger. I use it with the Bluetooth gps provider app and it works with Google Maps. It is a Wayfinder brand. It seems they are owned by Vodaphone but are now defunct.

Thanks for the tip what a good deal. Not sure I'll ever be using it in the car but at that price what the hell :)

[Guest English Haze]

Using my G2 I seem to be able to get the GPS to connect successfully via bt but Apps never seem to receive any location data. Not sure why. Works fine on the phone.

[Guest swarrans]

I am using a very cheap bluetooth gps receiver from Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT It costs £4.99 post paid. It has a mains charger for the battery and a car charger. I use it with the Bluetooth gps provider app and it works with Google Maps. It is a Wayfinder brand. It seems they are owned by Vodaphone but are now defunct.

Does that definitely work with the Vega? I have a different brand of BT GPS which I can pair but not get recognised by my Vega using GPS Provider despite what settings I try - did your Wayfinder work without changing anything? At £5 I'm happy to buy another, but would prefer to be absolutely sure that you didn't have to do some magic that I could also do on my existing unit!

[Guest TylerDurdenK]

Using my G2 I seem to be able to get the GPS to connect successfully via bt but Apps never seem to receive any location data. Not sure why. Works fine on the phone.

I'm using my G2 (HTC Hero) and I cannot get them to connect, all I get is a "paired but not connected" message.

Very annoying.

Edited December 10, 2010 by TylerDurdenK

[Guest abrown601]

Try running GPS 2 Bluetooth on the phone. Available in the market. I have succesfully connected my Desire to my Vega :)

[Guest English Haze]

This is running with that app. The app says that it's connected to the phone but never seems to receive any data.

[Guest swarrans]

This is running with that app. The app says that it's connected to the phone but never seems to receive any data.

Yes, mine is the same I can't get my BT hardware to connect and I've tried about 3 GPS apps and all the settings - that's why I wanted confirmation that the chap linking to the £5 BT GPS has actually got it working (he could just be selling them! - joke...)

[Guest crockwit]

"Yes, mine is the same I can't get my BT hardware to connect and I've tried about 3 GPS apps and all the settings - that's why I wanted confirmation that the chap linking to the £5 BT GPS has actually got it working (he could just be selling them! - joke...)"

It does work on the Vega. I have only tested it with Google maps and CarHome but it finds my location to within a few feet in both of these. And no I'm not selling them LOL.

Edited December 12, 2010 by crockwit

[Guest removed-14]

Try running GPS 2 Bluetooth on the phone. Available in the market. I have succesfully connected my Desire to my Vega :)

I've done the same and it worked brilliantly.

[Guest travisb]

Hiya all,

Just found a program for external Bluetooth GPS device.

downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/p/bluegps4droid/home/

Installed it to my advent and the application seems to run ok and I can see my Bluetooth dongle. Great NEWS!!!

Now for the bad news.

Everytime I try to connect my BT-GPS it starts to connect and then I get a message pop-up saying disconnected due to too many connections.

I don't have any other BT devices connected or paired at the time.

Any ideas how I could get this to work??

I thought I had found a way of getting the advent up and working GPS

I've installed that app and it works fine with an old Qstarz Q810 I found amongst my kit. Did you configure any of the app options like turning the SiRf options on?

Haven't had the too many connections error, and Latitude, FourSquare and Navigation work ok.

[Guest swarrans]

"Yes, mine is the same I can't get my BT hardware to connect and I've tried about 3 GPS apps and all the settings - that's why I wanted confirmation that the chap linking to the £5 BT GPS has actually got it working (he could just be selling them! - joke...)"

It does work on the Vega. I have only tested it with Google maps and CarHome but it finds my location to within a few feet in both of these. And no I'm not selling them LOL.

That `£5 wonder gps unit arrived today and works brilliantly. Very interesting as my much more expensive sirf one wouldn't no matter what i did

Many thanks for the link

[Guest boffboff]

Can confirm that a TOM TOM WIRELESS GPS MkII works using Bluetooth GPS 0.5.6

Confirmed using the Bluetooth GPS app's built-in status, log and map.

Also confirmed in Navigation app.

HTH

[Guest jellywobbles]

That `£5 wonder gps unit arrived today and works brilliantly. Very interesting as my much more expensive sirf one wouldn't no matter what i did

Many thanks for the link

Can you clarify a tad more?

How accurate is the GPS device?

How quick does it "fix" onto satellites?

Are you running TomTom (or similar) or the Google Navigation app?

Sorry for so many questions?

Cheers

Paul

[Guest swarrans]

Can you clarify a tad more?

How accurate is the GPS device?

How quick does it "fix" onto satellites?

Are you running TomTom (or similar) or the Google Navigation app?

Sorry for so many questions?

Cheers

Paul

all I have done so far is to link the GPS unit to the Vega and then go into Google maps but not actually navigated anywhere but the position shown on the maps looks very accurate so I would think it will be fine. If it wasn't so snowy here I'd go and try it for you.

The unit seems to find satellites more quickly than I can do the other bits on the Vega - ie if I switch it on and then go and enable Bluetooth and run the app it has already found all the satellites!

I can't quite believe its this good for £5 delivered!

I'd like to try tomtom but I guess that's quite expensive (I have a pocket pc version but I guess I'd need the android one?)

Simon

[Guest trevor432990]

"Yes, mine is the same I can't get my BT hardware to connect and I've tried about 3 GPS apps and all the settings - that's why I wanted confirmation that the chap linking to the £5 BT GPS has actually got it working (he could just be selling them! - joke...)"

It does work on the Vega. I have only tested it with Google maps and CarHome but it finds my location to within a few feet in both of these. And no I'm not selling them LOL.

@crockwit

When you first paired your GPS device with the Vega did you have a problem with wi-fi reception being affected? Only when I turn on the GPS box (same as you bought) and fire up Bluetooth on the Vega my browsers then come up 'web page not found' as if they've lost their internet/wi-fi link somehow. As soon as I close bluetooth the problem goes away. Any assistance gratefully received.

[Guest crockwit]

I have just tested my browser with the bluetooth GPS running. There did seem to be a problem with connecting to the internet. However after rebooting the Vega and repeating the test it managed to connect to the GPS and function ok on the internet. Maybe there is some glitch caused by the Vega coming out of standby (the first time I ran the test) and problems with the wifi . By the way Copilot seems to work ok. Only tested it in the house but it finds my location.

Edited December 21, 2010 by crockwit

[Guest trevor432990]

I have just tested my browser with the bluetooth GPS running. There did seem to be a problem with connecting to the internet. However after rebooting the Vega and repeating the test it managed to connect to the GPS and function ok on the internet. Maybe there is some glitch caused by the Vega coming out of standby (the first time I ran the test) and problems with the wifi . By the way Copilot seems to work ok. Only tested it in the house but it finds my location.

Hmm it is rather baffling I may try Copilot as well to see if it is any more reliable. Thanks

[Guest arad85]

Got one of the £5 ebay receivers. Brilliant....

[Guest r8zer]

Got one of the £5 ebay receivers. Brilliant....

same here its fantastic, now got copilot on big screen, i made a temp holder for my car, man, its nice to have a big display but, does look OTT for the car.

[Guest trevor432990]

same here its fantastic, now got copilot on big screen, i made a temp holder for my car, man, its nice to have a big display but, does look OTT for the car.

Be careful though I'm not sure whether the police would consider a tablet to be a sat nav though. They might class it as a TV which is illegal to have fixed to the dashboard of a car and it could also invalidate your insurance. Am I a pessimist or what ! :(

[Guest r8zer]

Be careful though I'm not sure whether the police would consider a tablet to be a sat nav though. They might class it as a TV which is illegal to have fixed to the dashboard of a car and it could also invalidate your insurance. Am I a pessimist or what ! :(

well i also have a 7 inch motorised dvd install radio so 3 inches wont make a difference, plus i have not got it on the window screen more where the heater controls are, so they not gonna see it, plus also i have never been done for my car pc and that i had built a surround for the dash with a 7 inch touchscreen.