[time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks Now that I've got a computer ready to be a time server, I am now fiddling about with my GPS modules, checking that they are working and the like. As I have yet to build and interface board for my Trimbles (requires a very fine pitch IDC connector, which is on backorder), I am testing

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is puzzling me about the VP is why I was unable to get this working > myself. Through minicom, at both 9600bps and 4800bps, I typed @@Ci, > which the manual tells me should get the device into NMEA mode. Nothing >

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Chris Kuethe at 2008-04-02 13:13... > My manual suggests you need to send > > @@Ci > > where 1 = nmea > and is the checksum byte > i think both CR and LF are required. Ah, thanks. That must be in another chapter - the wretched PDF is split into about six files and I was only looking at

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Hal Murray
> My manual suggests you need to send > @@Ci I had a similar problem a while ago. I wrote a simple python hack to compute the checksum. The manual probably has an example you can test it on. I sent individual commands with things like this: echo -e -n "\$PSRF103,0,0,0,1*24\r\n" > /dev/tty

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Hal Murray at 2008-04-02 14:08... >> My manual suggests you need to send >> @@Ci > > I had a similar problem a while ago. > > I wrote a simple python hack to compute the checksum. The manual probably > has an example you can test it on. ... > It's also worth checking gpsd. It knows how

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's also worth checking gpsd. It knows how to talk to lots and lots of GPS > units and can smash some of them into a useful state. I haven't got around to writing an oncore driver yet. There was one in the works but the pe

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Chris Kuethe at 2008-04-02 16:15... > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's also worth checking gpsd. It knows how to talk to lots and lots of GPS >> units and can smash some of them into a useful state. > > I haven't got around to writing an oncore

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-02 Thread randy warner
iscussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores Quoth Hal Murray at 2008-04-02 14:08... >> My manual suggests you need to send >> @@Ci > > I had a similar problem a while ago. > > I wrote a simple python hack to compute

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, randy warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not > sure how smart gpsd is, but it may not know about switching the receiver > between binary and NMEA mode. Since the gpsd commands you show in your email > specify 9600 baud, I assume you want binary? gpsd can't

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth randy warner at 2008-04-03 11:09... > The battery can indeed cause some problems if you don't have the software > necessary to reset the receiver to a known state. The simplest thing to do > is get a copy of Rick Hambly's TAC32 at cnssys.com. TAC32 will light up just > about any Moto receive