Connecting a BU-353-S4

Question

This is very much like the question at "How to use gps receiver bu-353" except that answer didn't get me all the way there.

I am trying to connect a BU-353-S4 by GLOBAL-SAT for use with OpenCPN. I can get the receiver to work in gpsmon, not in xgps, cgps or OpenCpn. Does anyone know how to get it to work in openCPN?

Output of: ls

ls /dev/ttyUSB
/dev/ttyUSB0

Output of: gpsd -n -N -D 2 /dev/ttyUSB0

gpsd:ERROR: can't bind to IPv4 port gpsd, Address already in use
gpsd:ERROR: maybe gpsd is already running!
gpsd:ERROR: can't bind to IPv6 port gpsd, Address already in use
gpsd:ERROR: maybe gpsd is already running!

This is after I removed and reinstalled gpsd & gpsd-clients, but before I re-started gpsd.

Answer 1

This cured my problem:

I stumbled on to another forum that said to try changine the default settings for gpsd at [/etc/default/gpsd] to this.

# Default settings for the gpsd init script and the hotplug wrapper.

Start the gpsd daemon automatically at boot time

START_DAEMON="false"

Use USB hotplugging to add new USB devices automatically to the daemon

USBAUTO="true"

Devices gpsd should collect to at boot time.

They need to be read/writeable, either by user gpsd or the group dialout.

DEVICES="/dev/ttyUSB0"

Other options you want to pass to gpsd

GPSD_OPTIONS="-n -G -b" GPSD_SOCKET="/var/run/gpsd.sock"

end of file gpsd

to my surprise it worked.