[Xastir] Okay, so it only transmits when the GPS interface is started?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On 5 Mar 2003, Gerry Wheeler wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 19:33, Curt Mills wrote:
> > It appears that we set "my_position_valid" to zero when start up any
> > GPS/networked-GPS port, otherwise its default is 1.  When we
> > correctly parse GPS data, we set it to three.  Each time we transmit
> > a posit if we're in GPS mode, we decrement it.  This keeps us from
> > transmitting stale GPS data if we lose the signal.  In that case, if
> > we're moving, dead-reckoning should take over on other people
> > screens and cover us until we get GPS lock again.
>
> What about overriding all of this if the station is set a Fixed Station
> (in the "Configure Defaults" dialog). In that case, just send the posits
> (as configured for the station) regardless of the GPS. (Or maybe it
> already does?)

Nope.  One thing that could be added though is a popup:


    "No valid GPS data: Posits disabled!"


Either getting good GPS data or turning off all GPS interfaces will
re-enable posits.

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