Re: GPSD doesn't report signal dropout

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:

> Yo Tom!
>
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:06:15 +1300
> Tom Isaacson <tom.isaacson@teknique.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I only just got a chance to try this.
>> 
>> It's definitely improved - now when I disconnect the antenna I get:
>> gpsd_data->fix.mode:         1 MODE_NO_FIX
>> gpsd_data->fix.status:       1 STATUS_FIX
>> gpsd_data->fix.time:         0.000000000
>> gpsd_data->fix.latitude:     nan
>> gpsd_data->fix.longitude:    nan
>> 
>> I'd still expect fix.status to be 0 (STATUS_NO_FIX)? Or am I
>> misunderstanding this?
>
> Why do you care about fix.status when you have no fix?  Would you also
> care about the lat/lon with no fix?
>
> gpsd give you many validity flags, use them.

Sure, but it also seems like fix status should be right.

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