TomTom Sports Connect for Linux

w3nc3s

iron_mike wrote:

Hello all,

I am encountering a problem with the installation of this software in debian 8.
In particular, when I try to install the *.deb package I get the following message

dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 40499 package 'tomtomsportsconnect':
missing maintainer
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 10 package 'tomtomsportsconnect':
missing maintainer

Any idea what the solution to this problem can be?

Thanks in advance!

Best,

Mike

You should install firstly gstreamer libs.

tedember

Jürgen wrote:

There is now a Linux® version of TomTom Sports Connect. It has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. I just published the FAQ with a download link:
https://uk.support.tomtom.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24741

I've jut intalled it on UBUNTU 18.04 and it works absolutely fine. Thank tomtom.

tedember

The tomtom app seems to work well for me in Ubuntu 18.04. Having said that I also get the error message about a missing maintainer. I have no idea why this happens, if anyone can shed light on this minor irritation it would be much appreciated.

hanod

Ferry Michael wrote:

Really pleased to see Sports Connect on Linux. I was lucky it installed really easily on my desktop PC running Ubuntu 17.04.
Getting it working on my laptop was a little more difficult as Sports Connect depends on an old version of a library that is not part of Ubuntu 17.04
The following commands run before installing Sports Connect got things going:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/215074266/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185267586/gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185267581/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb

Im using ubuntu 18.04 and its still working, thanks for share this solution!

oliviersavey

Hi,

i've got problems with tomtom sport connect since i upgrade my system to Ubuntu Budgie 19.04.
All was fine under Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 but nothing works after reinstall on 19.04.
I have check the libgstream with Synaptic and all the libs have been updated in 19.04 and there is conflicts between old and new versions. I can't uninstall new ones because they are part of the system.

Can someone help me ?

Regards
Olivier

redredred

Hello,

Same here, since the latest Ubuntu upgrade to 19.04.

Thanks,

Ferry Michael

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04. Had problems at first. Fixed from command line:
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl1.0/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb
All is good again.

Ferry Michael

Olivier,
I had issues a while ago related to libgstream which I fixed then with the steps I listed in an earlier post. I do not know if those steps are still needed with the latest version of Tomtomsportsconnect on Ubuntu 19.04. I had no problems - possibly because I already had the changes. The only new "fix" I needed for 19.04 was "libssl1.0".
If you still have problems please message again or contact me via computething.co.uk

I have a second PC to upgrade so will try a fresh install on that for comparison,
Michael

oliviersavey wrote: »

Hi,

i've got problems with tomtom sport connect since i upgrade my system to Ubuntu Budgie 19.04.
All was fine under Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 but nothing works after reinstall on 19.04.
I have check the libgstream with Synaptic and all the libs have been updated in 19.04 and there is conflicts between old and new versions. I can't uninstall new ones because they are part of the system.

Can someone help me ?

Regards
Olivier

slin

i suggest using ttwach instead of the tomtom solution:
https://github.com/ryanbinns/ttwatch

oliviersavey

Ferry Michael thank you so much for your help.
Everything is alright now.

You are very helpful.

Regards
Olivier

Tei

HI!

I just managed to install TomTom Sports Connect on Ubuntu version 18.04.

Sports Connect starts well and asks me to connect my TomTom device, but when I connect it, nothing happens.

Is there anything I need to do?

Marquardsen

Ferry Michael wrote: »

Really pleased to see Sports Connect on Linux. I was lucky it installed really easily on my desktop PC running Ubuntu 17.04.
Getting it working on my laptop was a little more difficult as Sports Connect depends on an old version of a library that is not part of Ubuntu 17.04
The following commands run before installing Sports Connect got things going:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/215074266/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185267586/gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185267581/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb

Thank you so much for this! Works on 18.04.
I am so happy. The Windows part of my dual boot just died AGAIN. So it is very fortunate that I can sync and load track on my Linux distro.

Arminius_B

Thanks TomTom, great work, really pleased for Linux support!
I'm going to buy a BQ Aquaris M10 HD and install Ubuntu Touch 16.04. Hopefully the connection of my Runner 3 via USB will work!
Maybe anybody has experience?

Best regards Armin

Mole_x64

Just for general info, if anyone else is having similar issues : On Gentoo, after an upgrade to nVidia drivers 440.44 the SportsConnect app failed to open with a "Failed to create OpenGL context for format QSurFaceFormat" error. The fix was to rebuild the drivers with the "compat" USE flag set. This compat USE flag installs non-GLVND libGL for backwards compatibility. .

Sulax

Ferry Michael wrote: »

Really pleased to see Sports Connect on Linux. I was lucky it installed really easily on my desktop PC running Ubuntu 17.04.
Getting it working on my laptop was a little more difficult as Sports Connect depends on an old version of a library that is not part of Ubuntu 17.04
The following commands run before installing Sports Connect got things going:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/215074266/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185267586/gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/185267581/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb

After executing your commands and then the link in the first post it was working perfectly and I could start it.

Using Elementary OS.

HvdW

The link for the Linux installation has changed.
It is now:
https://help.tomtom.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013958479-Linux-version-of-TomTom-Sports-Connect

blackbug

Hi all,

is there somehow a chance to get tomtom sports connect running on my lubuntu 32bit linux? I only find a .deb package for 64bit cpu's.

Thanks, Thomas

FuijnTux

HvdW wrote: »

The link for the Linux installation has changed.
It is now:
https://help.tomtom.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013958479-Linux-version-of-TomTom-Sports-Connect

This link flies directly to the homepage..... weird?

Jürgen

FuijnTux wrote: »

This link flies directly to the homepage..... weird?

Works for me. Perhaps an issue with cookies? I'm in the Netherlands as well which will be stored in cookies while the linked article is in the UK English web locale.

jboesche

Has anyone managed to run it on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS? The one of mine says "Connected" and then "We could not connect to your watch". I tried all the gstreamer and libssl packages and also reinstalled the tomtom app deb -- no luck.

Kujalantomppa

On my Ubuntu 20.04 I had to add the tomtom watch to udev rules.
1) You find the info of your watch with the command lsusb. I had a line like this:
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1390:7475 TOMTOM B.V. TomTom GPS Music Watch
2) I opend as sudo /etc/udev/rules.d/69-thermo.rules
3) and added to 69-thermo.rules this line filled with above ID-numbers:
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1390", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7475", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

This worked for me but I am not a programmer so test it with care. Don't know if ACTION, MODE and GROUP are necessary.

Tom.R

To install from scratch on a fresh 20.04.1 LTS install I followed all @Ferry Michael 's instructions, with the addition of downloading multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb and installing that as one of the gstreamer libs needed it. The linux sports connect deb then installs ok.

Then in order to get the watch to connect I added ATTRS{idVendor}=="1390", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7475", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" to tomtomsportsconnect.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ as I didn't find the same file as @Kujalantomppa had. I added that line from his post as the last line and restarted my machine and it all worked fine.

Thanks to @Ferry Michael (again) and to @Kujalantomppa thought that maybe this time it was an update too far but no!

cromat

I have created a guide to make TomTom Sports Connect work on Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20: https://github.com/cromat/TomTom-Sports-Connect-Ubuntu-20.04-Mint-20-

jboesche

Thanks a million, cromat! The only difference I can see in your description is running the app as root -- thank you for that hint (BTW, how did you get this? I couldn't find the logs anywhere)

francis123

Hi, I was using TomTom Sports Connect with Xubuntu 18.04. Never I had problem. However now I am using Xubuntu 20.04 (the newest) and the connection among the program and the watch does not work anymore. Specifically, for some seconds the connection is established but, just 5 second later, the connection is down. Is there a new version of the program for the new version of Ubuntu?

Thanks for the support.