Re: Garmin GLO 2

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Carles!

Thanks for the success report on the GLO 2.

BTW, you will need to update 3.20 to 3.23 before 23 october.

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:45:48 +0300
Carles Pina Estany <c.pinaestany@arctic-century.net> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
> 
> This is Carles from gpsd, we exchanged a few emails last week. Feel
> free to copy-paste this to the mailing list if you prefer.
> 
> I'm not subscribed with my expedition (out of curiosity 
> https://swisspolar.ch/expeditions/arctic-century-expedition/) email 
> address and I have very limited access to the internet at the moment.
> I wanted to send this email sooner rather than later.
> 
> I'm answering an email from:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:41:51 +0200
> 
> We were talking about a Garmin GLO 2 Bluetooth device.
> 
> We had said:
> -------------
> > > It says it does Bluetooth.  So it should work.  Except Bluetooth
> > > and gpsd together are fragile.  
> > 
> > In my experience: "Bluetooth and * together are fragile". I hope
> > (I'll get my hands to this device on Wednesday next week, it's from
> > a colleague) that the USB connection also works (I have the manual
> > and it says that it has USB, I hope that the USB is for more than
> > just charging).  
> 
> Let is know, the gpsd hardware list is getting a bit stale.
> -------------
> 
> It's been running for about 5 or 6 days now with:
> 
> pi@gps:~ $ gpsd -V
> gpsd: 3.20 (revision 3.20)
> 
> Via Bluetooth with a Raspberry pi. I've had very bad experiences with 
> Bluetooth myself so I'm actually surprised that all is going that
> well!
> 
> Thanks againGary for all your contributions in gpsd!
> 
> 
> Carles




RGDS
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