Re: [gpsd-users] autostart on Debian

[David J Taylor]

Dear Gary
I just spent a few hours finding out how to make GPSD autostart on
Raspbian Jessie. In [1] you write under /Troubleshooting Start at Boot/
to set ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gpsd -N …

Well this does not work under current GPSD and Raspbian. scons puts the
file GPSD in the folder /user/local/sbin/gpsd so you have to adapt that
line.

For troubleshooting I would recommend this:
1st run $systemctl status gpsd.service to see what systemd did with gpsd
2nd run $whereis gpsd to find the path to the file
3rd apply this path in /etc/systemd/system/gpsd.service

BTW: In Wheezy I could still use dpkg-reconfigure gpsd even when I
compiled my own gpsd. Troubleshooting would not be needed in most cases
if dpkg-reconfigure would do things right even in Jessie.

Just my 50 cents.

Regards

Robin
=====================================

Robin,

I also found the changes made in Jessie made access to the serial port, and 
getting gpsd to autostart, awkward.  I made some notes near the bottom of 
this page:

 http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-quickstart.html

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
David
--
SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu
Email: address@hidden
Twitter: @gm8arv