[ntp:questions] Re: Bluetooth GPS Sync
Koos van den Hout
koos at cs.uu.nl
Mon Oct 3 13:20:11 UTC 2005
Scott Glidden <nospam at industrial-logic.com> wrote:
> Anyone get a bluetooth GPS receiver to work under Linux? I wonder what the
> viability is to even try....
As a device for running gps applications (usually via gpsd, see
http://gpsd.berlios.de/): quite well. Serial-over-bluetooth works for me
(accessing a telephone).
As a device for ntp time synchronisation: I'm not so sure. I don't know how
predictable the timing of serial-over-bluetooth is.
Koos
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