[time-nuts] GPSDO standard interface?

[SAIDJACK at aol.com]

I dislike TSIP quite a bit. It's a disaster in my opinion if you are not  
intimately familiar already with the Trimble binary commands, and  exists in 
a number of inconsistent and non-compatible dialects as far as I know.  No 
way for a human to enter a simple command in a simple text terminal, you  
have to have everything translated by some application. I know the software  
folks like binary better than ASCII, because parsing binary  commands can 
theoretically be done with less effort. I think effort ==  results.

There is SatStat, GPSCon, and Ulrich's great Z38xx control program for  
human readable SCPI commands besides the good old ASCII terminals. HP leads the 
 way with GPIB/SCPI in my opinion. But it's like religion, everyone thinks 
theirs  is the right one, and everyone else is on the wrong path.
 
bye,
Said
 
 
In a message dated 6/26/2014 14:01:35 Pacific Daylight Time,  
holrum at hotmail.com writes:

There  are TSIP commands for doing all those things.  It should be fairly 
easy  to adapt them to control your hardware and whatever GPS receiver you 
are  using.
The nice thing about implementing a TSIP interface is being able to  use 
existing programs like Tboltmon and Lady Heather (over 30,000 lines of  code) 
to monitor and control it.  Also NTP knows how to talk  TSIP.



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I am planning on the output of at  least position, corrected phase error, 
DAC value, ambient temperature, and a  few other things.  I also see a need 
to read and write the PID gain and  damping factors, but that may just have 
to be a custom tty interface.  It  may be that I need to have a pass-through 
mode to give direct access to the  receiver for triggering site survey, etc. 
          
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