Re: Using gpsd for logging

[Andreas B]

Hi Greg,

Great, thanks for the tip!

Andreas

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:13 PM Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Andreas B <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I'm using a ublox 8 gps connected to (what will be) a _headless_
> > Raspberry Pi (i.e. no screen). I want to be able to power up my raspi
> > and be sure that it is _always_ logging the output of gpsd. Any
> > recommendations, tips or tricks?
> >
> > I was thinking about something simple as:
> > gpspipe -r > log.nmea
>
> You said "_always_".   So probably you need something that starts gpsd,
> and picks a new log file, and some kind of supervisor process (script,
> invoked from cron) that restarts if necessary.  And then something that
> evaluates if it is working, and posts some sort of notification, perhaps
> nagios, perhaps mqtt status (with a liveness topic and a lwt to clear
> that) and then something like home assistant.