[Xastir] Xastir and GPS

Curt, WE7U curt.we7u at gmail.com
Mon May 9 14:21:08 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2 May 2011, Andrew Errington wrote:

> Incidentally, with gpsd the "View|GPS Status" menu option always tells me I
> have no satellites or that the GPS data is more than 30 seconds old.  Does
> this menu option only support directly connected GPS receivers?  Or should it
> work with gpsd-connected GPS?

Should work.  There was a patch to Xastir some time back to make it talk to a later version of GPSD, as they changed the API on us.

Perhaps you've got the wrong mixture of Xastir/GPSD?

It's of course possible that they changed the API on us again.

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