Re: Getting NMEA data out from gpsd for use in u-center

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo David!

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 16:13:37 +0100
David Taylor <gm8arv@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Yes, I would have liked that to work, but even with the "-G" option.
> I tried both UDP and TCP.  Just checked again, and with UDP it
> appears to connect but disconnects after about three seconds.  With
> TCP its not clear what happens, but there's no data flow.

It fails because u-center is expecting NMEA< and gpsd is waiting for
u-center to request the type of data (NMEA, JSON, RAW) that it want.

A simple Python shim would handle that, or gpspipe.

RGDS
GARY
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