[Xastir] A minor miracle.....and another issue with gpsd....

[Richard E. Polivka]

Curt,

Even the supplied XGPS program has the too high speed displayed when I 
use it. This is even after I have done the mod, if I remember correctly. 
So, IMHO, the bug is in gpsd, not the GPS.

I will get a three second sample of sentences direct from the GPS. I 
will then try and get samples after GPSD has massaged them. I think that 
GPSD is working the unit in binary mode and decoding the resultant 
sentences wrong.

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Curt, WE7U wrote:

>On Sat, 21 May 2005, Richard E. Polivka wrote:
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>>Well, the value ended up being 30 and it is dividing the value that is
>>being put into the $GPRMC sentence for land speed. At least is close
>>enough for jazz and 40 MPH on the speedo read out at 38 on xastir (that
>>ratio is correct for that speed). At least progress is being made on
>>this end.
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>You previously sent some example GPGGA sentences, but I haven't seen
>any GPRMC sentences from your GPS or from gpsd using your setup.
>Can you send an example or two?
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>GPGGA sentences have altitude but no speed/course.  GPRMC has
>speed/course but no altitude.  I think I may have GPGGA functioning
>ok now for your (somewhat screwy) GPS, but the speed/course parsing
>may need some tweaking now.
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