Review Comments: Talking to TomTom Navigator via Perl

captaincaveman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 23, 2006 Posts: 14

Hi Rich, I really appreciate your patience in all this! I've definitely got the sevices and hosts files in the 'perl58m\unix\etc' directory, and as before I'm not getting the 'cannot open...' error anymore, but it's still not making an ftp connection. I do notice that the little symbol that represents data flow flashes up very briefly on my mobile phone when the connection attempt is made. I have installed no firewall on my pda (WM2005), and I can use PIE to browse the web no problems over a gprs connection (side note: I've just thought that I can also test it when my pda is on my WLAN at home, I'll do that tonight).

One thing I noticed though is that if I try to go to my ftp site in PIE simply by typing in the ftp address, it displays a page saying that no anonymous logins are allowed. I actually have to enter the adress in the form 'username:password@ftpaddress'. I notice that the Perl script tries to open the ftp connection first and then enter the username and password seperately. So I'm starting to think it's a specific FTP issue, is there any way of opening an ftp session in PERL with all the details in one connection string?

I'll be able to confirm if this is the problem tonight during my test on my WLAN as I'll just set up my home pc as an ftp server with minimum security and work from there.

Thanks for your help!

captaincaveman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 23, 2006 Posts: 14

oh additionally, I added the line '127.0.0.1 Localhost' into my empty Hosts file, as I have seen lots of PCs with that entry in them...don't know if that's making a difference or not!

rich_d_thomas · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2004 Posts: 46

Hi captaincaveman,

We need to look into why you're having these FTP problems, so I've cut out the FTP functionality and written a script called "ftplite.pl".

I'm just going to email this to you.

Then, populate you FTP server address, username, password and directory name.

If you could copy it into your scripts folder and run it, there should be a load of debug appearing on the screen, please could you copy that and post it here.

It saves having to wait 10 minutes at a time and does not need TomTom to produce the result files.

Could you also install PERL in any Windows machines you have access to and run the same ftplite.pl test on that.

If you could do this test with as many different combinations (E.G. different types of internet connectivity from your PDA and different types of internet connectivity from a Windows PC)

Thanks,

Richard.

captaincaveman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 23, 2006 Posts: 14

Rich, I've replied to your email.

nej · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:05 am Post subject:

Pretty neat.

I did a similar thing once, sent back various route & journey info to a back-end app via the SMS interface on one of our tracking units.

How about sending back your lat/lon/heading/speed (well, maybe not speed - how about moving/stationary) and using Google Maps or similar to plot your position?

Should be very easy to do.

rich_d_thomas · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2004 Posts: 46

Hi nej,

I agree about sending the position and having that show on a map remotely.

I know what needs doing, I haven't done anything about it yet.

The main reason being that TomTom Buddies seems to do the same thing.

Trouble is that I don't have a version of TomTom that includes Buddies yet, so I don't know how much duplication there would be if I did as you suggested.

Richard.

mcwarre · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2004 Posts: 157

This is an exciting topice; thanks to Richard and Lutz. If only I understood Klingon as that's what it souds like to me ;)

BrainShutdown · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

hi,

I´m developing an .NETCF WM5 application to use TT6 with our fleet managment GPS system using FileInterface directly. Everything was going just fine until I used ShowCoordinatesOnMapV01 with negative longitude (west). The result answer is allways error.

I´m certainly doing some dumb thing and hope someone can help me on this.

Request:
SDK.TomTomNavigationServer.1.1.message

ShowCoordinatesOnMapV01|-875594|4137561|\0x00

Answer:
TomTomNavigationServer.SDK.1.1.message

-4|\0x00

In the other hand if I use positive (east) longitude all ok

Request:
SDK.TomTomNavigationServer.1.1.message

ShowCoordinatesOnMapV01|875594|4137561|\0x00

Answer:
TomTomNavigationServer.SDK.1.1.message

0|\0x00

So far I´ve used other functions sucessfully

GetApplicationVersionV01
BringNavigatorToForegroundV01
StopApplicationV01
GetCurrentPositionV01
SwitchToNavigatorViewV01
EnableExternalGPSInputV01
...

Thanks in advance

Nuno

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the World of TomTom Navigator 6. All API calls involving coordinates are broken in the v6 application .
_________________
Lutz

Report Map Errors here:
TomTom/TeleAtlas NAVTEQ

BrainShutdown · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the quick reply.

Not my fault then :D

I´ve managed to put my hands on TTN 5.21 and everything worked fine.

Anybody knows if this is going to be fixed somewhere in the near future?
Or if there is some workaround?

Thanks again

Nuno

Eldar · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject:

A1Dox · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: Nearly got it working...

Hi Richard,

rich_d_thomas · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2004 Posts: 46

Hi A1Dox,

Great to see others wanting to make use of this Smile

at not wanting the script to be running all the time, hehe!!

OK, if you could copy this perl script http://www.mydatabus.com/public/starbug/ftplite.pl to your PDA and change the FTP server details and let me know what happens, that would be a great help.

I've just got myself a TomTom One now so my phase 2 is to have a play with the TomTom Buddies, maybe I can make use of that, so that home can get the same sort of information.

Let me know how you get on.

Richard.

A1Dox · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Diagnostic Testing

rich_d_thomas · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2004 Posts: 46

Hi A1Dox,

Thanks for posting back, let me know once you've had a chance to play.

Richard.

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