Gps Sensor

GpsSensor

Agocontrol is able to manage Gps sensor.

Display

GpsSensor is displayed like other sensors with a widget containing:

• name of your sensor
• info of last position
• a button to open a map

Writing my own GpsSensor

• Create your device that has ability to retrieve your sensor positions following this page http://wiki.agocontrol.com/index.php/Example_Device
• Declare your sensor with this line:

add_device("<device name>", "gpssensor")

Note that gpssensor allows system to have different behaviour with your sensor, so don't change it!

• And finally send to agocontrol your position emitting this event:

emit_event_raw(<internalid>, "event.environment.positionchanged", "map{latitude=?, longitude=?}")

Installation

• We need the gps module to run:

apt-get install python-gps

Informations

• Agocontrol only manages WGS84 positions, that is the standard for gps device.
• Agocontrol uses OpenLayers javascript library with OpenStreetMap as image provider.