hi everybody,
I bought a bluetooth gps device and wanted to use it as a tracking recording device.
so I installed maemo mapper, downloaded some maps from google.... and here I go!
my gps is a solar powered gps, so I put it on the backpack. I checked and got connection... after wandering a little checking the device connection regularly I concluded that it can keep the connection like this... so I put the n800 back in the pocket and didn't mind.... after a while I wanted to see the track I've done, and well I got a message box 'lost connection with the gps, do you wanna reconnect?' well... of course stupid! reconnect ... all fine... some time later.... same .... looking at the recorded track... it replaced the whole time spent with the message box on by a straight line!
how do I configure the n800 / maemo mapper to auto reconnect to the bluetooth device? I don't mind loosing the connection from time to time... but loosing 1h of a trip
thanks
JLM

Hi,
after looking the web I saw several tutorial explaining how to use bluez-utils to bind to the device and keep the bluetooth connection alive... however I don't find rfcomm, hci* utils described there.....
can someone tell me where to find thoses tools? additional repositories etc
thanks
JLM

for installing hci tools :
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?p=151336

edit file /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf by rfcomm commands output:

rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 00:00:00:00:00:00; #your gps mac address here
channel 1;
comment "BT GPS";
}

http://www.labri.fr/perso/barrere/gpsBTLinux.html

however this don't solve the issue : if connection is lost to the gps device, maemo mapper display a dialog box and don't retry to connect... I was expecting gpsd to reconnect... and maemo mapper to not know about the lost.

running gpsd -n don't solve the issue, the problem is in maemomapper since gpsd don't kill itself on connection loss... more with -n option it can reconnect to the gps device without any issue...