[Xastir] Course & Speed problem

[Jay Hurt]

>From: Curt Mills <archer at eskimo.com>
>To: Jay Hurt <n0xvb at hotmail.com>
>CC: xastir at xastir.org
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] Course & Speed problem
>Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:30:42 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jay Hurt wrote:
>
> > I noticed that the last time I was mobile my station icon did not rotate 
>to
> > indicate my direction of travel.  My beacons also did not contain a
> > course/speed.  My setup is SuSE 10.1 with CVS from 11/7.  (I have all 
>optional
> > libraries installed except for gpsman and also have --with-error-popups 
>and
> > --with-rtree)  Is this something new?  Does Xastir compute the 
>course/speed or
> > does it obtain that from the gps?  Am I correct in assuming the station 
>icon
> > didn't rotate because Xastir thinks my course was 000?
>
>Are you talking about the Xastir station that was mobile, or it was
>watching another station of yours that was?  Two different sets of
>solutions based on that.  I think it's the latter.
>
>If it was watching your other station, then you need to click on the
>station settings that tell it to rotate the icon and to display the
>course & speed.
>
>If it was the Xastir station that was mobile then you need to pick
>one of the sentence types in configure->Defaults that corresponds to
>a mobile station.  If you don't, Xastir won't send out a
>course/speed, and won't rotate your icon 'cuz it doesn't decode a
>course number.

It was for N0XVB-2 (set up as mobile with local time), which was accepting 
position information with no problem, but course and speed were showing 000 
the entire time.  I was monitoring with my D7 and it showed my course/speed 
at 000 also.  I was wondering if there was a NMEA sentence that Xastir was 
looking for or if Xastir did the computation.  I know I was showing a valid 
fix, with anywhere from 6-8 sats in view and it said "SPS" at the end of the 
status line.
Jay

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