Re: ✘ Add NEO-M9N NMEA logfile.

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:15:30 -0700
> > Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> >  
> >> fw@fwright.net said:  
> >>> In theory, gpsd could do a better job of "blending" NMEA and
> >>> binary, but that's a significant undertaking.  
> >>
> >> Is there any information in the NMEA stream that isn't also in the
> >> binary?  
> >
> > Sadly, yes, but very little of note.  For example the startup NMEA
> > messages tell you things unavailable otherways.
> >  
> >> Could you set a flag when you see binary and just skip any
> >> NMEA if the flag is set?  
> >
> > No way to "skip", but just turn NMEA off:
> >
> >    # gpsctl -b  
> 
> Which is precisely what's been broken for about two months (in
> addition to the automatic binary switching).

And now you bring it up?  No other complaints and works for me.

It can wait until after release.

> >    # ubxtool -d NMEA  
> 
> Also broken.  I haven't previously investigated the -e/-d
> NMEA/BINARY, but should include it in testing.

Ditto.

RGDS
GARY
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