I’ll look into the problem. Working in seperate threads is a bit more difficult from a UI perspective, but if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, eh? It does look like the Etrex script is doing pretty much the same thing — I’ll come up with a sample script and have you test it, to see if I can work out what’s causing the problems.

Thanks for the heads up!

I’ve installed GPSDisplay on a 6680(Rev 01,OS 8.0,V 3.04.37). The GPS I’m using is the Nokia LD-1W.
I have found that the display update freezes after about 15 seconds.
Restarting GPSDisplay does not work. It never gets past the Bluetooth connection stage.

GPSDisplay will only start working again after I wait a minute or two for the Bluetooth connection to the LD-1W to time out.
Then I can start the application and see the GPS data displayed.
It then freezes again after 15 seconds.

I believe that the problem may be socket or thread related.

I have been trying to get my own python scripts(This is the first time I’ve used python) to read from the LD-1W and I’m getting the same situation with a halt in data coming from the socket.

The only script that works reliably with my HW/SW is ‘gps-series60.py’ from the PyTrek-20050713-Zaragoza package.
http://www.argo.es/%7Ejcea/programacion/pytrek.htm

This script runs the GPS data collection in its own thread. I wonder if this is a clue.

Maybe it’s just a problem with my HW/SW combination.

Thought Id mention it.

Dave