Re: GPSD doesn't report signal dropout

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:10:57 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> >> It's definitely improved - now when I disconnect the antenna I get:
> >> gpsd_data->fix.mode:         1 MODE_NO_FIX
> >> gpsd_data->fix.status:       1 STATUS_FIX
> >> gpsd_data->fix.time:         0.000000000
> >> gpsd_data->fix.latitude:     nan
> >> gpsd_data->fix.longitude:    nan
> >> 
> >> I'd still expect fix.status to be 0 (STATUS_NO_FIX)? Or am I
> >> misunderstanding this?  
> >
> > Why do you care about fix.status when you have no fix?  Would you
> > also care about the lat/lon with no fix?
> >
> > gpsd give you many validity flags, use them.  
> 
> Sure, but it also seems like fix status should be right.

There is more to this than meets the eye.  The messages that we are
talking about here do not include any status at all.  Most NMEA never
outputs any status.  The Quectel never outputs status.  So the problem
is in the client.

status is for binary protocols like u-blox.

I did change libgps_json.c to default status to STATUS_NO_FIX if there
is otherwise no status.

RGDS
GARY
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