GPSD users, developers, et alia:
First, I want to thank Gary for all the effort he did put into helping
me to try to get my GPS functioning with gpsd and I wanted to say that
publicly.
I am at a point where gpsd is listening to the GPS port at 9600 baud,
I believe I do not have a PPS connection to the GPS and am simply
desirous of using the time from the gps sentences to set my laptop's
clock. Using cgps and gpspipe it has become abundantly obvious to me
that the GPS gets a fix and is aware of the time. I need only now to
interface this to chronyd (presuming my GPS has no pps output
notwithstanding a /dev/pps0 existing).
I tried adding the line as follows hereupon to my gpsd.sources file,
but it had zero impact and chronyc sources remained blank. I did
create a sources file with usno network sources that did work, so
chrony works and I used gpspipe to test gpsd, but they seem unable to
talk to each other.
refclock SHM 0 refid GPS poll 4 precision 1e-3
One not on my 3-year old version of gpsd (my current version from
Debian repositories is 3.25 not the current 3.26 version.
I contacted the Debian maintainer for gpsd and asked why the latest
version of Debian Trixie had a three year old version of gpsd therein.
He indicated that the Debian Trixie code freeze occurred before the
latest drop of gpsd and thus it was not inclusive thereto. He did say
he would get the current version into unstable, testing, and then
perhaps into Trixie but there was an issue. Apparently gpsd used
libraries more current than those inclusive to Debian Trixie and that
was part of the problem. If anyone is interested, I can send you the
response and explanation this man sent me along with his email address
if anyone has questions for him. I was told that the best thing to do
was either switch to unstable or testing (I loath the idea of that) or
just use the version they have currently.
Very Respectfully,
Stuart Blake Tener, BScCS, N3GWG (Extra), MROP
Computer Scientist / FCC Licensed Radio Operator
Las Vegas, NV / Philadelphia, PA
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