GPS Data Logger Software - BT747

The comments in the thread "BT747 on Android? Volunteer?" are most interesting. BT747 is a great app but I do not think porting it to Android is achievable. I just finished coding and Android app for an MTK CHIP GPS logger that has some of the BT747 functionality and found meeting the run time limits for the GUI a real challenge.

I published "MTK logger utility" to Google Play today - GNU GPL v3 licensed. Also posted the source files on GitHub. Works great with my Samsung Galaxy Note and Qstarz Q1000x logger. My app has 4 tabs:

Hi all,

I'm currently using BT747 for downloading GPS tracks from Holux M-1200E device via USB cable, and it works just fine. But my attempts to do the same via Bluetooth connection are unsuccessfull: it just does not see the logger on the COM port created by Windows XP for BT connection (the BT pairing & connectivity itself is fine).

I'm starting to think that BT part of that tracker can be used for live GPS data transmitting only, while its internal memory content isn't accessible from BT side, and this design is preventing me from downloading stored tracks.

I received my Qstarz q1000xt logger today and have started to play with it on my Powerbook G4. I have succeeded in getting data via the USB cable, but I cannot connect to the device using Bluetooth from within BT747.

I am pretty sure the problem has to do with the device name. I paired the q1000xt using the standard OS X bluetooth setup. I can see the device  /dev/tty.Qstarz1000XT-SPPslave-1 and I can also see ASCII data streaming from the device if I do this on the terminal:

 $ cat /dev/tty.Qstarz1000XT-SPPslave-1

I have installed various versions of BT747 on a Mac OS 10.6.  Whether accessing my iBlue 747 A+ via Bluetooth or USB,  I constantly get an error that the port is not found.  the /dev ports do exist, and other programs (HoudahGPS) can see both USB and Bluetooth ports so I know that the device can connect.  I have tried several versions of BT747 to no avail.

Any ideas?

Log:

I am trying to connect a Blumax GPS-4043 to my MacBook using Bluetooth in order to download tracks.

I have managed to get this to work using BT747 but only under the old interface. I did this my editing the bt747_macosX.command file, adding the following lines:

POSSIBLE_PORTS="$POSSIBLE_PORTS /dev/tty.BlumaxBT-GPS-SPPSlave-1"

java -Djava.library.path=${ROOT_DIR}/rxtx/ -Dbt747_port="/dev/tty.BlumaxBT-GPS-SPPSlave-1" waba.applet.Applet /w 250 /h 250 /scale 1 /bpp 8 BT747

I have also added the /var/lock file with the following two commands:
sudo mkdir /var/lock