[time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

[Michael Wouters]

Hello Kevin

There is a Perl script to configure and log the ublox that is
available as part of OpenTTP
https://github.com/openttp/openttp/tree/master/software/gpscv/ublox

Cheers
Michael

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 8:03 AM Kevin Croissant
<kevin at kevincroissant.com> wrote:
>
> This is the library I am using:
> https://github.com/jkua/ubx
>
> Basically the only applicable files are ublox2.py and ubloxMessage.py.
> There's some bug in how it handles its byte buffer and the buffer grows out
> of control, which causes all sorts of issues. I tried to fix it but failed
> due to time constraints. Highly recommend against touching that library...
>
> I started off by using NMEA but found that there is was more resolution in
> the UBX messages, so that's why I went that route. I thought there must be
> a way to get the same resolution, but did not figure it out, and eventually
> I had to just get it online so I could move on. Looking at gpsd, I'm still
> not sure that it supports UBX, and I think that was why I disregarded it
> before. Do you know if it does? The only UBX messages my project truly
> needs are NAV-PVT and NAV-DOP, though I look at other ones for data
> validation and debugging.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 5:06 PM Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > kevin at kevincroissant.com said:
> > > The library I used for the U-blox UBX protocol frankly sucks, and was a
> > major
> > > source of issues.
> >
> > What library are you using and/or did you look at gpsd?
> >
> >
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