Re: [gpsd-users] State of Glonass in GPSD

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo John!

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:11:19 +0000
John Klug <address@hidden> wrote:

> What is the state of Glonass in GPSD?

Works fine.  Except you're better turning off GLONASS.

> By default our U-Blox 8 puts out both Glonass and GPS NMEA strings.

Yeah, but you should convert to u-blox binary.
 
> gpsmon says gpsd is in ublox mode.

Because gpsmon probably changed your mode.
 
> To what extent does gpspipe or gpsmon support Glonass?

Same as all else.

> It looks like with gpspipe -pw I am seeing satellite output like this:
> 
> {"PRN":133,"el":27,"az":226,"ss":33,"used":false},{"PRN":138,"el":36,"az":200,"ss":38,"used":true}]}

Looks right.
 
> I don't ever see satellites 64-96.

Probably because you are not using a GLONASS capable antenna.  Works for me,
with the right antenna.

> We are trying out GPSD 3.17 

Should be OK, git head has many improvements.

> I can only find Glonass mentions in the introduction and on the JSON
> page. 

Because GLONASS is nothing special.

RGDS
GARY
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