Re: [gpsd-users] Unable to display GPS time for in either xgps or cgps clients

[Eric S. Raymond]

Skillman, Brad <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to using gpsd and I have run into a problem where I don't seem to be 
> able to see the time from our GPS unit displayed on a client.
> 
> I'm currently using a Garmin GPSmap 76S unit in the GPS Simulator mode.  When 
> using this unit with the xgps or cgps clients, most of the fields appear 
> correct (e.g. lat., long. alt., fix, etc.) but the "time" field always shows 
> up as "n/a".  Also, when I use the "gpspipe -r" command I can see the NMEA 
> "$GPGLL" message is being sent with the correct GPS time.
> 
> Is there something in either of the clients, or the starting up gpsd, that 
> would prevent the time data in $GPGLL from being parsed out?  Is there 
> another message that is parsed out for displaying the GPS time information?  
> Or perhaps my GPS simulator doesn't currently produce the NMEA message 
> required by xgps / cgps to display the time information?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Brad S.


We do interpret GLL. Perhaps the ones it sends are out of spec
somehow. Please go to the web form pon our hardware page and supply
data on the device, including a logfile we can test with; I'll
troubleshoot this one.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>