I have been using Navit for car navigation around six years now. It is a very useful piece of software if you are like me (don’t have a normal navigation system hehe..). I have been traveling around Europe using this program. My first Navit setup ran on Pentium 3 Laptop. It was a little bit slow, but it worked. My second Navit run on Intel i3 Laptop with Debian Squeeze. It worked very good. Now I use the same Laptop with Linux Mint 17.1. My hardware consists of a Laptop and a Navilock Bluetooth BT-413 GPS receiver. And here is my software installation:
1. Install Navit:
$ sudo apt-get install navit $ sudo apt-get install maptool
2. Install gpsd:
$ sudo apt-get install gpsd
3. Configure Bluetooth Device.
3.1. Here is my “/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf”:
#
# RFCOMM configuration file.
#
rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:09:DD:10:37:7A;
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Description of the connection
comment "BT-GPS";
}3.2. Here is my “/etc/rc.local”:
#!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. # BT GPS Maus mit rfcomm0 binden /usr/bin/rfcomm bind 0 exit 0
4. Download map (maps.navit-project.org):
5. Configure navit.xml. Change the Map filename in xml file with the one you have downloaded. Mine is “osm_bbox_-5.1,45.5,10.9,53.6.bin”.
<map type="binfile" enabled="yes" data="~/.navit/maps/osm_bbox_-5.1,45.5,10.9,53.6.bin"/>
6. I found out that voice produced by Mbrola sounds better than directly from Espeak. Here is how to install Mbrola:
$ sudo apt-get install mbrola $ sudo apt-get install mbrola-de7
7. Set the speech in navit.xml. Here is my setting:
<speech type="cmdline" data="espeak -vmb-de7 -s130 -a150 '%s' &"/>
8. Start Navit:
9. Happy driving!