Re: [Diagnosed]: Timeservice not running on Ubuntu 16.04

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Dan!

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 18:05:13 -0400
Dan Williams <dwilliams@nextdroid.com> wrote:

> It required quite a few fixes, primarily verifying that all
> received sentences were reporting good fixes.

In gpsd land we call this: having a valid 3D fix.

>      - GPSD will not *Tell* you that these fixes are bad,

gpsd is not a client.  That is why the procedure says to look with
cgps to see that you have a valid fix.  All the client tell you if you
have a valid fix.

> NOR that
> it's why PPS won't output.  not even in debug level 6

I showed you in your debug logs where gpsd shows that.

Simple rule: No fix, no valid PVT.

That is why the procedures tell you to verify you had a fix before
proceeding to PPS.

gpsd tries hard to ensure that garbage in does not yield garbage out.

> - Lesson 3: GPSD can report a PPS signal to "gpsmon" without being in
> root.

Or rather, gpsmon can not open /dev/pps0 without being root.  But
that is distro/permission dependent.

> - Lesson 4: gpsd will fail back to ioctl mechanism even if it's run
> as root and has access to KPPS.  Even if your KPPS setup is faulty.

By design, as documented.

> - Lesson 5: The PPS errors "missing last_fixtime" do not prevent a
> pps fix. (visible at debug level 5 and above)

Correct, but the pps fix is not valid, so not used.  gpsd only uses
valid data.

> The gps receiver and computer I'm trying to set up are mounted on a
> vehicle, and I was debugging while parked.

Parked inside with bad skyview?  You logs only showed 3 sats in sight,
not enough for a 3D fix.

> Unfortunately for me, the GPS receiver (and IMU) only output valid
> sentences while it's calibrated, which effectively means: "while it's
> driving".

That would be a pretty bad bug in the oxts.

> For instance, our receiver can see 6 satellites, report 1m DOP,

No way you get 1m DOP with only 6 sats.  That would be another bug in
your oxts.

> and
> still not have a "valid" fix -- because it's waiting until the IMU &
> accelerometers are valid before reporting a valid fix.

That would be another bug in your receiver.

RGDS
GARY
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