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GPS2IP Features

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GPS2IP has been sucessfully integrated with many applications, and used for many custom solutions that users have dreamed up for themselves.
Most of these features can be configured in the Settings section, which can be found from the main UI by pressing the settings button in the lower right corner.

For a comprensive explanation of every single setting and feature, see our documentation page.

Different GPS2IP Versions


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  • Transas iSailor determines location using Apple’s internal “Location Service”.
  • Transas iSailor determines location using Apple’s internal “Location Service”. The app can receive a signal about current position from the cell tower, internal Apple’s “Assisted GPS” or external GPS which can work as an internal service. While being out of range of cell towers, the device defines the position using GPS.

Starting from v3, GPS2IP is now free to purchase on the AppStore.
You can experiment with the settings to see whether or not your software or solution works with the GPS2IP technology.

If you want to take advantage of different features, merely go to the bottom of the Settings page, and purchase the relevant InApp Purchase.

There are currently two possible upgrades:

  • Full Functionality, which provides everything most people require.
  • Multicast UDP might be required for very particular situations. If you don't know what it is - you don't need it.
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FeatureDocumentationFree VersionFull VersionMulticast UDP
General Settings
Other NMEA messages
Background Transmission
Selectable NMEA messages
Variable frequency transmission
Adjustable Precision
Connection Method
Network Selection
Can send Multicast UDP

GPS2IP can push the GPS data to any IP address, using either TCP for a connected session, or UDP for a faster, lightweight method.

Go into the settings, and under Connection Method, select either TCP Push or UDP Push.
By pressing the settings button, you can check and modify the address the data is being transmitted to.

The address can be any valid IP4 adress, and also a URL such as dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com
(http:// is assumed).

The Port number should be the port that the other machine is listening on.

More detailed setup instructions can be found here.

To save energy, GPS2IP can minimise the amount of data transmitted by selecting an appropriate transmission period for your needs.

The first option is No Delay, which means that data will be transmitted as soon as your device gets any GPS data.
If the GPS signal is strong, this could be every second.
If the GPS signal is weak - you may not get any transmission for seconds or minutes.
If your iOS device is running on the battery, consider slowing down the period from this setting to conserve battery life.

The next settings is 1s, which transmits every second if the setting Disable when Static is disabled.
The setting Disable when Static makes it possible to not keep receiving the same (or very similar) data when your device is staionary.If you are only interested in receiving data to show where the device has been (and don't care so much where it might be right now), then enablingthis setting can save considerable battery energy if the device stays in one place for lengthy periods of time.

Disable when Static overrides the time selection: No matter what period you select, if Disable when Static is enabled and the device doesn't movea moderate distance - you will not receive any data.
This means you know where the device was last (at some point in the past), and it is safe to assume it is still there (otherwise it would have transmitted new data).
You will not have real-time updates, but will drastically extend battery-life.

Other settings range from 5s up to 1 hour.
If you are drifting on a wind-blown raft after escaping a shipwreck - selecting 1 hour should be fine.
Aboard a modern ship, perhaps 5 minutes or 30 minutes would be better.
If used for navigation, 1s or 5s is recommended.

The ideal setting depends entirely on your requirements.

In an effort to minimise energy consumption, GPS2IP can use several techniques to determine the device location.

Apple has defined the following values, from which you may choose.

GPS2IP settingApple says
The very bestUse the highest possible accuracy and combine it with additional sensor data.
Pretty goodAccurate to within ten meters of the desired target.
ModerateAccurate to within one hundred meters.
LazyAccurate to the nearest three kilometers.


If you select one of the lower accuracy-settings, the power consumption can be dramatically reduced. (The GPS uses a lot of power!).

Standard GPS devices output the NMEA format.
Here is a document with details of some common NMEA messages.

GPS2IP outputs a subset of these messages, as apple devices do not have the sensors to determine much of the information required to construct valid NMEA sentences.

The available sentences (with provisos detailed) are:

  • $GPGGA
    Horizontal Dilution of Position is hard-coded to 0.9
    Number of satellites tracked is fixed to 8
    Height of geoid above WGS84 ellipsoid is hard-coded to 46.9m
  • $GPRMC
    Magnetic variation is fixed to 3.1°W
  • $GPGLL
  • $GPHDG
    Only on supported hardware with an electronic compass
  • $PASHROnly on supported hardware with an electronic magnetomoter
    Heave is fixed to 0.0m
    Roll and pitch angle accuracy estimate fixed to 3.14159...°
  • $GPTXT

Each of these NMEA sentences can be individually enabled and disabled.

GPS2IP can cantinue to operate in the background in several different ways.

If Operate in background mode is enabled, then you will continue getting data if

  • GPS2IP is put into the background (by running another app)
  • Your device sleeps after a period of inactivity

Even if powered-off (or the battery runs out), GPS2IP will restart automatically if Operate in background mode is enabled.

If the setting Operate when terminated if enabled is enabled this works on an even lower level.

Normally, if you terminate an app by going into the 'Multitasking Manager' (by double-clicking the home button) anddismissing it by flicking upwards - that's it - it is killed, and will not run again until you click on the icon for the app.

However, if GPS2IP is running (enabled on the main UI page), and is terminated by this method withOperate when terminated if enabledenabledthen if the device is restarted, GPS2IP will come back to life after a few minutes, and continue transmitting.
It will still be in the background, but will function as configured before power-off.

Warn:This does require that the device receives at least one good location update from the GPS before it will begin transmitting.

GPS2IP can communicate over several different networks.

Wifi

Probably the easiest way to connect to your iDevice is over a wireless LAN (wifi).
If your iDevice is on the same network as your computer that you want to connect to is, it will be assigned an IP address similar to yours (perhaps 192.168.1.7, or similar).

You can check the IP address by selecting Wifi IP under Network Selection in the settings, and hitting the little

Cellular IP

This is the method you use to connect to the internet when out of range of any wifi network - when you're in the car, for example.

Sometimes your cellular provider will not assign you a 'real' IP address (visible from outside their network), but anaddress essentially on their LAN, behind their NAT system.
This means you cannot telnet to your iDevice. You might have to transmit, if your solution allows.
You should ask them to assign you a publicly accessible IP address.

Hotspot

If you have a cellular connection in your iPhone, you can enable 'Personal Hotspot' .
This means your iPhone will act like a wi-fi router, and you can connect to the new wi-fi network that it provides.

To set up Personal Hotspot:

  1. Go to Settings > Cellular
  2. Tap Personal Hotspot, then tap the slider to turn it on
  3. (Make sure you leave wi-fi on, so that you can connect to the new wi-fi network!)
If you don't see the option for Personal Hotspot, contact your carrier to make sure that you can use Personal Hotspot with your plan.

Once you have enabled Personal Hotspot, when you select Hotspot in the GPS2IP Network Selection settings, you will beable to connect to it over wifi from any other device.

If you are using TCP ur UDP push, you will need the other device to connect to the Hotspot before determining the IP address of that device.
Be sure to check the Hotspot IP address by pressing the little next to the Hotspot selection.
In iOS 11, it can take a few minutes for your device to configure itself properly for some reason.
If you get a message 'Not Available' in GPS2IP when you press the next to the Hotspot setting, then try waiting a minute or so..

Bluetooth New!

You can connect to GPS2IP with a device that uses BLE technology.

BLE is available if your device supports Bluetooth 4.0 or greater.

All iPhones after the 4s support this version, as well as

  • iPad, 3rd and 4th generation
  • iPad mini; mini 2; mini 3
  • iPad Air; Air 2

Both the device running GPS2IP and the other device must support BLE to be able to use this method!


BLE is NOT 'normal' Bluetooth.


You cannot just connect GPS2IP to your computer to 'magically' have a GPS.
The software you use must be expressly designed to use BLE.
The operating system (Windows or Mac) will not see GPS2IP as a Bluetooth GPS.

SeaNav, for example, has been written to take advantage of BLE devices, like GPS2IP.

GPS2IP provides the Location and Navigation (0x1819) service, with the following characteristics:

NumberNameReadNotifySpecifications
0x2A67Location and Speed CharacteristicBluetooth.com 'Location and Speed Characteristic'
0x2A68NavigationBluetooth.com 'Navigation'
0x2A6ALN FeatureBluetooth.com 'LN Feature'

When the icon is flashing, GPS2IP is advertising it's services.
This means other devices can see it, and subscribe to the data.

If there is a problem, the Bluetooth system can stop advertising. In that situation, the icon will be greyed out .
You can press that icon to start GPS2IP advertising again.

If the icon is solid blue - you have a connection with at least one other device.

Rather than configuring a destination for GPS2IP to transmit location information to another machine, GPS2IP can beoperated as a network socket .

In this mode, GPS2IP waits until a connection is requested by some software, and then establishes a connection with that software/computer.
You may not need to know the details, but some navigation software will use this method to connect to a GPS source.

To enable this mode, select Socket in the Connection Method section, and hit the little buttonto verify or change the port that GPS2IP will listen to.
Your navigation software should have that port number information available.

If you would like to test that GPS2IP is functioning (with good reception and location data, for example), you can Telnet to your iOS device, and begin receiving data.
Make sure all the settings are configured appropriately to get data out for testing.
Check the Socket for the port number, and the under the selected network for the IP address.

In this example, the iPhone has an IP address 192.168.0.106 and is listening on port 1112.
Start up Windows Command Prompt, and start the socket connection with the following command

More details Here

Documentation

There is a comprensive explanation of every single setting and feature on our documentation page.

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