Re: [gpsd-users] Is GPSD receiving PPS?

[Jon Brase]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 02:04:59 -0600, Jon Brase <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:50:54 -0600, Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
>
> > Yo Jon!
> >
> > On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 15:18:47 -0600
> > "Jon Brase" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > >  Could you be more specific about the nature of these issues
> >
> > The Wheezy binaries were old version of gpsd.  So all  
> > improvements/fixes in
> > newer gpsd were not present in Wheezy.
> >
> > > and say whether they're still an issue in Jessie?
> >
> > What version gpsd is in Jessie, The look at the gpsd changelog to see  
> > what
> > you are missing.
>
> I'm not too worried about being a few versions behind as long as it's  
> not the direct cause of the PPS issues I'm running into. OTOH, as Jessie  
> is on 3.11, I notice that PPS support was marked experimental until  
> 3.12. So I guess it might be worth trying to compile a more recent  
> version from source.
>
> Have you had a chance to evaluate the debug output I provided? I've  
> repasted it below my signature in this e-mail for your reference. Recall  
> that ppstest is able to get valid data from /dev/pps0, but the output  
> below indicates that gpsd is not managing to open /dev/pps0  
> successfully. Both ppstest and gpsd are being run as root, so  
> permissions shouldn't be an issue.

Just an update on the issues I've been running into on the Pi: I tried  
compiling from git tonight, I'm running into the same issues with GPSD  
accessing pps as with the prepackaged Raspbian binaries. Some of the  
regression tests failed. I'll try to provide details tomorrow / later  
today, but I'm up way later than is sane at the moment.

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Jon Brase