Re: [gpsd-dev] Developing for gpsd, Testing, and gpsfake

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:17:21 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jiwon Joung <address@hidden>:
> > Hello Eric,
> > That makes sense -- thank you for your email. One more question,
> > after running 'gpsfake -p -P 6666 test/sample.aivdm' in one
> > terminal and 'cgps :6666' in another terminal, the cgps output is
> > [image: image.png]
> > How can I get the fields in the table at the top to reflect real
> > data?  
> 
> You can't, not in cgps.  It doesn't know anything about how to display
> AIS data.  xgps has an AIS panel, though.

Not all the GPS logs are suitable for this either.

For example, this works for me:

# gpsfake -P 6666 -S test/daemon/mt3339.log

And in another window:

# cgps :6666

But this does not:

# gpsfake -P 6666  test/daemon/ublox-neo-m8n.log

I never figured out why.

RGDS
GARY
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