D'oh... I bought an USB1.1 GPS device... so I needed a hub that could throttle down to usb1.1, but still talk usb2.x to the Pandy...
Hardware bought:
GlobalSat ND-105C Micro USB GPS Receiver (comes with cable to connect to normal USB port)
extra hardware required: USB hub (mine is Sitecom)
Energy consumption
305 idle
321 usb turned on + hub connected (takes a few seconds of full power while initializing)
740 GPS dongle connected to hub
gpsd and modrana work like a charm. Unfortunately, modrana, when choosing bike and choosing a spot got me a 5 km route for a 1 km trip. In the Netherlands, most streets are bike ready, and it seems these bike lanes have to be explicitely defined to be traversable by bike... I see that, as it is openstreetmaps, I need to chip in to make them better.
upsides:
* It works (well, I am not the first one that tried this, so...)
downsides:
* Need wifi enabled to also download maps, and wifi is not always available (if you look at the route in advance, you can force to download these parts of the map). And hopefully along the way you have wifi to recalculate the route. As such, the power drainage gets ridiculous, and you are better off with a specialized device.
* Setting up takes a while. You need to drop to commandline, do a dmesg, from there, pick up which port it connect to "now attached to ttyUSB0", because that is what you need to select in gpsd frontend. Start up is ok, but there seems to be a bug that when you come out of hibernation, the GPS selects ttyUSB1, however, even selecting that from the gpsd menu will still make gpsd use ttyUSB0... so you need to reboot to get it working again... bummer.
Not much success with Navit... does not seem to want to talk to the usb gps... (last time I tried, 3 years ago, it worked?). Well, out of power, and need to recharge it before I try that again.
will be updated...
Hardware bought:
GlobalSat ND-105C Micro USB GPS Receiver (comes with cable to connect to normal USB port)
extra hardware required: USB hub (mine is Sitecom)
Energy consumption
305 idle
321 usb turned on + hub connected (takes a few seconds of full power while initializing)
740 GPS dongle connected to hub
gpsd and modrana work like a charm. Unfortunately, modrana, when choosing bike and choosing a spot got me a 5 km route for a 1 km trip. In the Netherlands, most streets are bike ready, and it seems these bike lanes have to be explicitely defined to be traversable by bike... I see that, as it is openstreetmaps, I need to chip in to make them better.
upsides:
* It works (well, I am not the first one that tried this, so...)
downsides:
* Need wifi enabled to also download maps, and wifi is not always available (if you look at the route in advance, you can force to download these parts of the map). And hopefully along the way you have wifi to recalculate the route. As such, the power drainage gets ridiculous, and you are better off with a specialized device.
* Setting up takes a while. You need to drop to commandline, do a dmesg, from there, pick up which port it connect to "now attached to ttyUSB0", because that is what you need to select in gpsd frontend. Start up is ok, but there seems to be a bug that when you come out of hibernation, the GPS selects ttyUSB1, however, even selecting that from the gpsd menu will still make gpsd use ttyUSB0... so you need to reboot to get it working again... bummer.
Not much success with Navit... does not seem to want to talk to the usb gps... (last time I tried, 3 years ago, it worked?). Well, out of power, and need to recharge it before I try that again.
will be updated...
