[time-nuts] Galileo service currently degraded

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

One alternative, if you only need two lines is to write a parser just for them. 
There’s not a whole lot to the protocol and the uBlox doc’s are pretty good at
describing it. Yes, it’s a binary protocol so there will be a bit of this and that
involved. 

Bob

> On Jul 13, 2019, at 5:16 PM, 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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