[gpsd-users] NovAtel Binary Format Support

[Joshua Quesenberry]

Good Morning All,

 

When I plug in a receiver streaming NovAtel Binary data it doesn’t appear to be recognized by GPSD. So my questions are:

1) Does anyone have code to parse NovAtel Binary in GPSD?

2) If not, what’s required to do so?

 

This is the firmware manual for NovAtel OEM6 Family Receivers: https://www.novatel.com/assets/Documents/Manuals/om-20000129.pdf

 

BESTPOSB (page 393) and BESTVELB (page 405) are two that we use frequently where I work, where the B at the end indicates the binary version. I assume other binary messages would be needed to get all the data that GPSD stores, but I’m not sure which messages those are at this time.

 

While NMEA is an option, it’s too much data at the rates requested, minimal of 10 Hz.

 

Position, velocity, heading, time, status, and hdop are more important, but additional DOPs, error measurements, and satellites would maybe be nice too.

 

Thanks,

 

Josh Q