Re: [gpsd-dev] GPSd on FreeBSD

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 11 Sep 2019, at 06:25, Gary E. Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It would be good if I could pass gpsd my PPS source and it used it
>> purely for PPS, however I don't know if that is possible (I think so
>> though).
> 
> Just put it on the command line, as the doc shows:
>       gpsd -n /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pps0

Which is what I did first:
> 
> If I run gpsd like so..
> sudo ./gpsd -D5 -NnG /dev/gps0 /dev/pps0
> I get..
> gpsd:PROG: selecting PPS driver...
> gpsd:PROG: PPS:/dev/pps0 chrony socket /var/run/chrony.pps0.sock doesn't exist
> gpsd:INFO: KPPS:/dev/pps0 RFC2783 path:/dev/pps0, fd is -2
> gpsd:INFO: KPPS:/dev/pps0 time_pps_create(-2) failed: Bad file descriptor
> gpsd:WARN: KPPS:/dev/pps0 kernel PPS unavailable, PPS accuracy will suffer
> gpsd:PROG: PPS:/dev/pps0 thread launched
> gpsd:INFO: PPS:/dev/pps0 ntpshm_link_activate: 0
> gpsd:INFO: device /dev/pps0 activated
> gpsd:PROG: KPPS:/dev/pps0 gps_fd:-2 not a tty, can not use TIOMCIWAIT
> gpsd:WARN: PPS:/dev/pps0 die: no TIOMCIWAIT, nor RFC2783 CANWAIT
> gpsd:PROG: PPS:/dev/pps0 gpsd_ppsmonitor exited.

/dev/gps0 points to /dev/cuau2
/dev/pp0 points to /dev/dmtpps0

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Daniel O'Connor
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