Working Tomtom Nav On Angstrom, - working adequately, seeking permission from tomtom Options

[speculatrix]

EDIT 20070502 - working on Angstrom in chroot without patching kernel, package coming sometime.

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http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl

my wife bought me a TomTom GO 300, and I discovered that it runs linux when I, naturally, googled to see what hacks had been done. I was quite surprised to find it ran linux.

interestingly, TT originally used 2.4.18 but now 2.6.10.

they provide useful downloads and all the patches for the kernel, so those with a particular predilection for low-level hackery might find that page interesting or useful.... especially if it'd be possible to use TT's bluetooth hands-free system.

all we need now is to hack a GPS receiver into our Zauruses along with wifi and bluetooth, and we've got it made!

oh yeah, there's an OpenTom project too:
http://www.opentom.org/index.php/Main_Page

[albertr]

speculatrix,

Just curious if it would be possible to run the navigation software from TomTom on the Zaurus? What GIU is used on TomTom GO?
-albertr

[loc4me]

speculatrix,

Just curious if it would be possible to run the navigation software from TomTom on the Zaurus? What GIU is used on TomTom GO?
-albertr

Also what about the bluetooth connection? Can a link be established over that to the TomTom?

[speculatrix]

Also what about the bluetooth connection? Can a link be established over that to the

the BT connection, on the 300 at least, is one-way - outbound from the TT over a mobile phone.

opentom *can* allow bluetooth rfcomm to get NMEA data from the GPS - I asked specifically, and of course, you just have to write your own trivial rfcomm listener and "connect" it to the GPS receiver's tty.