[gpsd-users] Correct way to handle 5 Hz on an application

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi! I have some doubts on how to correctly handle this case, so please bear 
with me.

The situation is the following: gpsd receives NMEA from a GPS device from a 
UDP stream. The GPS device is configured via a µController to send updates at 
5Hz.

On my code I do the following:

  result = gps_open(host, port,&mGPSData);

  [check result]

  result = gps_stream(&mGPSData,WATCH_ENABLE|WATCH_JSON, NULL);

  [check result]

And then I set up a timer to poll every 150ms., which does:

  if(gps_waiting(&mGPSData, 500))
  {
      int result;

      // Read as much data as possible, we need the last available state.
      while((result = gps_read(&mGPSData)) > 0);

      if(result == -1)
      {
          <handle error>
      }
  }
  else [...]
    
My questions are:

  - Is polling the right thing to do here?
  - Is there another way to handle this? I tired dbus and shmem but could not 
make them work (running Debian unstable). I don't know if it's because the 
data comes from an UDP feed or something else is happening. I have checked 
that the Debian package builds with dbus andshmem support, but still :-/
  - Should I check mGPSData.fix.time to see if the info I received is new or 
gps_read() will only return the latest status?


Thanks *a lot* in advance, Lisandro.


-- 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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