View source for GPS daemon

==About==
'''From gpsd website:''' ''gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple location-aware client applications (such as navigational and wardriving software) can share access to receivers without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes. The gpsd distribution includes a linkable C service library, a C++ wrapper class, and a Python module that developers of gpsd-aware applications can use to encapsulate all communication with gpsd.''

==Installation==
<pre class="host">
$ make menuconfig
</pre>

<pre class="config">
Package Selection for the target  --->
    Hardware handling / blockdevices and filesystem maintenance  --->
        [*]   gpsd
                devices/protocol support  --->
                gpsd features  --->
</pre>
* Let default devices/features if you don't know what they mean.

<pre class="host">
$ make
</pre>
* reflash your rootfs

==Usage==
* ''gpsd'' is automatically launched at startup by ''/etc/init.d/S50gpsd''.

* On [[APF27]] + Wireless extension, at first startup you may need to add the following line in the start() method of this script:
<pre class="apf">
# nano /etc/init.d/S50gpsd


start() {
        stty -F /dev/ttySMX4 raw -echo -echoe -echok 38400               <<<<<<<<<<<<--------------
        echo -n "Starting $NAME: "
        start-stop-daemon -S -q -p $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- -P $PIDFILE $DEVICES && echo "OK" || echo "Failed"
}
</pre>

===Manual access===
* ''gpsd'' is a daemon running in background and waiting for client to connect to its TCP port 2947. To check it is well running, you can connect to it with telnet:
<pre class="apf">
# telnet localhost 2947
</pre>
* then you can give it some commands (more infos [http://gpsd.berlios.de/gpsd.html here]):
<pre class="apf">
?VERSION;
{"class":"VERSION","release":"2.94","rev":"2010-06-09T13:27:04","proto_major":3,"proto_minor":2}

?DEVICES;
{"class":"DEVICES","devices":[{"class":"DEVICE","path":"/dev/ttySMX4","activated":1276183248.47,"flags":1,"driver":"Generic NMEA","native":0,"bps":0,"parity":"N","stopbits":1,"cycle":1.00}]}

?POLL;
{"class":"POLL","timestamp":1276183453.266,"active":1,"fixes":[{"class":"TPV","tag":"GLL","device":"/dev/ttySMX4","time":1276176096.000,"ept":0.005,"lat":47.239685500,"lon":6.019204667,"alt":268.100,...
</pre>

===Graphical clients===
* cgps (ncurses based), installed by default:
<pre class="apf">
# cgps
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│    Time:       2010-06-10T13:41:26.0Z     ││PRN:   Elev:  Azim:  SNR:  Used: │
│    Latitude:    47.238710 N               ││   8    07    079    00      N   │
│    Longitude:    6.018278 E               ││   9    47    282    29      Y   │
│    Altitude:   1055.4 ft                  ││  12    10    216    00      N   │
│    Speed:      0.7 mph                    ││  15    79    194    39      Y   │
│    Heading:    265.5 deg (true)           ││  17    00    000    22      N   │
│    Climb:      0.0 ft/min                 ││  18    00    000    22      N   │
│    Status:     3D FIX (43 secs)           ││  26    84    265    25      Y   │
│    GPS Type:   Generic NMEA               ││  27    61    291    33      Y   │
│    Horizontal Err:  +/- 83 ft             ││                                 │
│    Vertical Err:    +/- 75 ft             ││                                 │
│    Course Err:      n/a                   ││                                 │
│    Speed Err:       +/- 114 mph           ││                                 │
│                                           ││                                 │
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│                                           ││                                 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘└─────────────────────────────────┘
</pre>

* Navit, etc....

==Links==
* [http://gpsd.berlios.de/ gpsd website]

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