Re: [gpsd-dev] Number of supported satellites

[Ferry Huberts]

On 25/02/14 20:28, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Ferry!
>
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:17:13 +0100
> Ferry Huberts <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > ping?
>
> MAXCHANNELS was moved up to 72 in February 2011.  3.6 is from May 2012.
>
> Sent the list some debug output we can look at.

Thanks!

I did some digging and it appears that the change up to 72 in 1fb5395 is 
before the 2.96 release.
Also, this code in driver_nmea0183.c gives the warning:
>     if (session->driver.nmea.part == session->driver.nmea.await
>         && atoi(field[3]) != session->gpsdata.satellites_visible)
>         gpsd_report(session->context->debug, LOG_WARN,
>                     "GPGSV field 3 value of %d != actual count %d\n",
>                     atoi(field[3]), session->gpsdata.satellites_visible);

So maybe we have a bug in the firmware of our gps devices. We'll contact 
the vendor of those.

Thanks again!


> > On 13/02/14 11:17, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > On our routers we're using (debian) gpsd 3.6 (revision 3.6) and are
> > > getting warnings about satellites:
> > >
> > > > Jan  2 13:12:43 router gpsd[4798]: gpsd:WARN: GPGSV field 3 value
> > > > of 13 != actual count 22
> > >
> > >
> > > It seems that (this version of) gpsd doesn't support enough
> > > satellites.
> > >
> > > Is still the case or has this been fixed?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
>
>
>
>
> RGDS
> GARY
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Ferry Huberts