Re: [gpsd-dev] Metadata proposal

[Roy Barkas]

Thanks Eric - I'll give it a spin tomorrow.

Next thing I'll need to do is find out what the best way that I can help to support gpsd and the team (given that I don't think you want me coding).

Roy

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:

Roy Barkas <address@hidden>:
> Some time ago I submitted a proposal to allow metadata (in particular a
> timestamp that indicates when a message was received at a satellite) to be
> passed through GPSD along with the native sentences ( see
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-01/msg00022.html )
>
> Is there any chance that this might make it into 3.10?

I think it's already there. :-)

Have your device generate any metadata it likes in JSON form.  The lexical
analyzer should detect it as a packet of type JSON and pass it through.
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