Re: [RFC] get gpsd to work with gnss-share

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Pavel!

On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 22:21:20 +0100
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> > I can't speak to the PinePhone, but my tests have never shown an
> > advantage to A-GPS on a modern multi-constellation receiver.  
> 
> That's weird. Theoretical cold start is 40seconds w/o A-GPS,

Theoretical?  u-blox claims 1 second on the M8N.

> with
> A-GPS it should take lock in few seconds. Anyway, I'm trying to get
> gpsd working with gnss-share/geoclue, not solve A-GPS.

How is "few" better than '1'?

> > > > Echoed char by char?  Sentence by sentence?  Buffered?  
> > 
> > No answer?  
> 
> Clayton knows this and he answered that IIRC.

Not to my satisfaction, but getting there.

> > > Should I gather longer logs?  
> > 
> > Not if they are corrupted like that.  Longer is not much better,
> > varied is much better.  Like startup -> signal lock -> signal loss
> > -> signal lock.  
> 
> Ok, I'll try to gather them. But note that it is going to be PinePhone
> and Librem 5 support, and what I'm trying to accomplish at the moment
> is gnss-share support :-).

I appreciate our goals and problem spaces are differewnt.  With a tiny
bit over overlap.  Send what you can and want to bother with.

RGDS
GARY
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