Re: [gpsd-users] gpsfake question

[Joshua Quesenberry]

Good news! I went to a single GPRMC message and everything is working now. I'm 
getting Time, Latitude, Longitude, Speed, and Heading. I can add in GPGGA if I 
want Altitude, but that's not crucial for what I'm doing currently.

I tried the set of GPGGA, GPVTG, and GPZDA but the result was that only Time, 
Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude were being displayed in cgps. For some reason 
GPVTG isn't getting used.

Once I run: gpsfake -l -c 0.1 Log.nmea, I can then run cgps and everything is 
being populated. So I'm not sure how gpsfake is working in the background, but 
whatever is happening is sufficient enough for all of the gpsd clients to 
connect up and get the data as it's streamed without any extra steps.

Thanks!

Josh Q

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Quesenberry [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9:50 PM
To: 'Gary E. Miller' <address@hidden>; 'gpsd users' <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [gpsd-users] gpsfake question

Gary,

The GPGGA message includes hhmmss in the first field, however, you're correct 
that that's not enough to get a full date/time set if that's what gpsd needs. 
I'll play around with providing GPZDA and then if that doesn't work I'll make a 
GPRMC message to take place of all three.

I was under the impression from playing around with gpsfake in linux that a 
socket DOES get opened? When I tried to run gpsfake it would not run because 
the gpsd port 2947 was in use... only after I killed the systemd stuff would it 
start. Also, cgps would not run until after I had gpsfake running. Can you 
expand upon what the full workflow is? The gpsfake man page lacks examples.

Thanks,

Josh Q

-----Original Message-----
From: gpsd-users [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Gary E. Miller
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9:16 PM
To: 'gpsd users' <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [gpsd-users] gpsfake question

Yo Joshua!

On Wed, 10 May 2017 21:07:47 -0400
"Joshua Quesenberry" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm using gpsfake like this: gpsfake -l -c 0.05 test.nmea

Good.  I did notice that you have no time in your test data.  gpsd wants to 
output full PVT solutions, and you are missing the T.

You need somethhing like a GPZDA to set the proper century, and maybe a GPRMC,  
RMC stands for "Recommended minimum specific GPS/Transit data", so considuer it 
a good minimum.

> For observing the data I was hoping to see updates using cgps.

You realize taht gpsfake does not open any port, like what cgps uses.  See the 
gpskafe man page.

RGDS
GARY
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