Description
Connect an
external Bluetooth GPS
receiver to your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.
The demo version does not forward the GPS into other applications. To enable this feature, you have to buy the full version.
It does not let you use your iPhone's GPS with the iPad - but we're looking into that, too.
Compatibility
BTstack GPS has been tested to work on iPod 2G, 3G, and 4, all iPhones, and all iPads running firmware 3.0 and higher.
iOS 5 support since version 1.6
It supports standard RFCOMM/SPP GPS receivers.
It registers the GPS capability with the OS, if there is no built-in GPS
It supports all applications that use the official CoreLocation framework.
GPSSerial
has to be removed during install.
Changes in 1.6.1
TomTom: fix problem with missing labels for all but iPod TOuch 3G on 5.x
Changes in 1.6-29782
iOS 5 compatibility: fix course injection
New option in Settings.app to limit update rate to 1 Hz
Use HDOP for location accuracy estimation
Use course and speed from GPS
TomTom: remove 'connect to GPS' message
Nike+ GPS: make it usable
RadarActive: make it usable
Runmeter: make it use GPS
Changes in 1.5-25900
Added "Connect to last used device"
Show horizonal dilution of precision (HDOP)
Report 1.0m accuracy for GPS data
TomTom: report iPod as iPhone to fix annoying "Connect to GPS" message
Fixed crash of some apps that use multiple CoreLocationManagers, e.g. EveryTrail
Fixed heading value for 270-0 degrees, e.g. for ForeFlight Mobile
Allow new pairing on connection failure
Changes in 1.4-25565
Support for iOS 4
Changes in 1.3-25246
Improve speed and course calculation - Speed stays constant when driving with Cruise Control.
Ignore NMEA sequences while fix is invalid.
Update annotation location (blinking).
Fixed crash for NMEA time millisecond data specified only with two digits.
Fixed connection problem with some GPS receivers, e.g., the WBT-202.
Fixed handling of multiple sequeneces in a single packet.
Don't crash during discovery when devices with incorrecly encodesd names are present.
Changes in 1.2-24995
Sets course property if moving. Improves compatibility with navigation apps, e.g. iGo My Way.
Handle multiple location managers: fixes problem with e.g. SkychartPro
Changes in 1.1-24393
Register GPS capability with OS
Improved compatibility - e.g, TomTom is compatible now
Fixes a bug in Bluetooth communication that caused data to stop after few seconds
Notes
BTstack GPS is based on
BTstack
, the open-source Bluetooth stack for iPhone OS.
BTstack
cannot run in parallel
to Apple's Bluetooth. Therefore, BTstack GPS has to turn off Apple's Bluetooth. You can re-enable Apple's only after quitting the GPS app.
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