Blumax Bluetooth GPS-4043 Recorder Logger

The Blumax GPS-4043 is a Bluetooth GPS Logger. Although it sizes is bigger than e.g. the wbt-201, it has some nice features (logging auf 130000 points, bluetooth, very fast positioning).

This device also works perfectly under Linux, using the program mtkbabel (see in universe-repository of ubuntu).


First you connect your device to your pc via bluetooth or usb. With bluetooth you have to scan for your bluetooth device (hcitool scan). Here you get something like this:

root@morphbook:/home/morphus/bin# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:1C:88:10:AB:XX Blumax BT-GPS

Now you tell your PC to connect to that device:

rfcomm -i hci0 bind rfcomm0 00:1C:88:10:AB:XX

The following steps are the same for usb and bluetooth connection, use /dev/hci0 for bluetooth and /dev/ttyUSB0 for USB (see dmesg)


To get information about your device just type mtkbabel -p /dev/hci0

To get the logged data, just type mtkbabel -p /dev/hci0 -f filetowrite -t -w


Then you should find three files in your directory, first the binarydata in filetowrite.bin, then the waypoints you've marked in filetowrite_wpt.gpx and third filetowrite_trk.gpx with the whole track.


Now you can use gpsbabel to do anything you like with these files.

Xming: Using X11-Programs on your Windows-PC:

1. Get Xming (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/), download the program, the fonts and the putty-app
2. Allow X11-Connections on your Linux-machine (/etc/ssh/...)
3. Export the Display on Linux (export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0)
4. Connect with putty to your host with X11-Remote-Connection enabled and with the following tunnel:
"remote tunnel"
R6000 127.0.0.1:6000
5. Then start your favourite X11-App and have fun.

Putty, Linux and utf8

Do make putty show correct "Umlaute" in Linux with Utf8, you should use the following settings in putty:


(Connection): Terminal-Type-String: Linux
Window Translation: UTF8
Click Use Unicode line drawing code points

php5 and apache2

If you try to get apache2 with php5 to work and you get the errormessage

httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 127 of C:/development/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Can
not load C:/development/httpd/php/php5apache2.dll into server: The specified mod
ule could not be found.

then you should use "php5apache2_2.dll". Don't ask me why...

Infrared and Nokia 6310i

For using the Nokia 6310i with an up-to-date Windows XP you normally don't need any software. What you only need to adjust is a setting in the "System Control", "Wireless Connections", "Hardware", "Settings", "Extended". Here set the Infrarottransceiver A to "HP HSDL-2300/3600". With the default one it didn't work.

Now you can install the PC Nokia Suite (Version only up to 4.81) and do whatever you like.

Yakumo 300 GPS combined with Nokia 6310i using infrared (gprs-internet)

Just a short manual on using my Yakumo PocketPC (PPC) with my Nokia 6310i (6310) in order to get into the internet via gprs(provider alice):

Mostly from: http://www.ppc-hilfe.de.vu/

1. Start, Einstellungen, Verbindungen
2. Neue Modemverbindung
3. GPRS-Verbindung, generisches IRDA eingeben
4. No using of "Wählregeln", since they confuse the system
5. Dialed numner is *99#
6. Username and Password can be set to anything
7. Click on "Erweitert"
8. Setting Baudrate to "115200"
9. Don't use "Auf Freizeichen warten"
10. Additional Modemcalls: "+cgdcont=1,"IP","internet.partner1"

Thats it!

Now allow the infrared-connection on the 6310i (Point 10 in the menu) and start the just created grps-connection. Now use Internet Explorer for surfing or install Opera.


Some good programs:

Opera for Pocket-PC
easySMS - SMS versenden über den PPC
Flexmail - Perfect for retrieving imap-mails (incl. imap-idle!)

Symlinks for apache under Windows

When you run an apache under Windows, you can't just go the easy way in doing a symlink like under linux (you know, ln -s etc.).

But there is a tool on the Microsoft Homepage called Junction, which is using some capable stuff on the ntfs-filesystem to create this kind of symlink. It is only working for directories.

Junction