Getting a Linux PC to use a GPS on an Android Device
Getting a Linux PC to use a GPS on an Android Device Bluetooth is one of the modern wonders of modern wireless technology. Whether you want to talk on the phone through your car or play a game on your Wii with a wiimote, you’re using bluetooth. It is wonderful, when it works. When it doesn’t, however, then it can be a royal pain. I set out with a simple goal: let me laptop use my phone’s GPS . Easy, right? Well, not exactly. Bluetooth on Linux has never been easy to work with, or at least I have not found the right tools to make it easy. Verion 4 of BlueZ, the Linux bluetooth stack, did not help matters much either. With version 4, all of the configuration files changed. All of the command-line tools changed. BlueZ shifted to becoming a D-Bus-centric service. That may be great for people who run KDE or Gnome and have a little panel applet to handle everything, but for me, the command-line user, all of my tools were taken away. For a long time,...