Re: Getting NMEA data out from gpsd for use in u-center

[David Taylor]

On 03/10/2021 19:02, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo David!
>
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 16:13:37 +0100
> David Taylor<gm8arv@yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>
> > Yes, I would have liked that to work, but even with the "-G" option.
> > I tried both UDP and TCP.  Just checked again, and with UDP it
> > appears to connect but disconnects after about three seconds.  With
> > TCP its not clear what happens, but there's no data flow.

> It fails because u-center is expecting NMEA< and gpsd is waiting for
> u-center to request the type of data (NMEA, JSON, RAW) that it want.
>
> A simple Python shim would handle that, or gpspipe.
>
> RGDS
> GARY

Thanks for the explanation, Gary.

I do now like the solution I found, as it uses nothing other than what is 
already available, and should be possible for anyone to reproduce should they 
need the same function.

Cheers,
David
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