Re: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xanadux/qomunicator/

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > Daemon that presents 5 virtual telephones talking to one real
> > > telephone, or something like that. Similar to gpsd.
> > 
> > Need to look at gpsd. But I think virtual telephone may be a bit too
> > much. I like to look at it as on the message bus supporting
> > synchronous and asynchronous communication. I can't see any additional
> > value from virtual phone abstraction.
> 
>  the principle behind gpsd is that you issue _simple_ commands
>  of one character in length, and the responses come back "preparsed".
> 
>  so gpsd takes care of parsing the NMEA data for you, and if you happen
>  to know which one-character commands to type, then you can just telnet
>  to gpsd and get a rough idea of what's going on.
> 
> 
>  basically, the "hard" stuff is taken care of - once - and all
>  subsequent "users" of the multiplexing daemon have a far easier time
>  getting messages, making phone calls, getting status info and
>  contact details.

I don't think parsing NMEA is that hard. In fact I think that gpsd
protocol is very similar to NMEA... and many programs support both.

                                                        Pavel
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