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authorSanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>2015-03-25 00:51:36 +0800
committerGary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>2015-03-25 14:04:24 -0700
commitd2a111589d37be0a76d18f4cfa33e1da5a4e4f66 (patch)
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parent27ed001a734aaac2310c855d20fdb027357a0585 (diff)
downloadgpsd-d2a111589d37be0a76d18f4cfa33e1da5a4e4f66.tar.gz
Updating documentation of contrib/
skyview.php no longer works, since GPSD NG, (2.90) Signed-off-by: Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>
-rw-r--r--contrib/README22
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@@ -8,13 +8,6 @@ with a log file. These utilities are not particularly clever - they
merely slurp a tty's output into a file, or spray the contents of a
file out of a tty.
-skyview.php is used to generate pictures of your skyview, and may be
-used to help determine if a given antenna placement is appropriate for
-some purpose. This tool requires about 24hrs worth of "Y" messages and
-outputs an image of accumulated SV position and signal strength. It is
-sometimes entertaining to "see" occulted SVs using multipath. You must
-have the PHP-GD library installed to use this script.
-
ashctl might be used to reset an uncooperative Ashtech receiver to
a usable state. For whatever reason sometimes they do not respond to
a protocol switch command; this spams the receiver with configuration
@@ -44,7 +37,7 @@ to create a snapshot of the current sat view.
ntpoffset generate an estimate of your GPS's offset from a peerstats
file. For instructions on how to use this script, see the GPSD Time
-Service HOWTO in this distrubution.
+Service HOWTO in this distrubution, in the www/ subdirectory.
ppscheck watches a specified serial device for changes in handshake lines
CD, RI, and CTS by running ioctl(...., TIOCMIWAIT, ...) in a loop. When it
@@ -52,3 +45,16 @@ sees a state change it emits a timestamped line of output dumping the state
of the handshake signals. It's useful for checking whether a device is
emitting 1PPS. There is troubleshooting advice in the header comment.
+------
+The files below do not work with current versions of gpsd.
+
+[The GPSD protocol changed in 2.90, and messages emitted are no longer
+of the form that this script expects.]
+
+skyview.php is used to generate pictures of your skyview, and may be
+used to help determine if a given antenna placement is appropriate for
+some purpose. This tool requires about 24hrs worth of "Y" messages and
+outputs an image of accumulated SV position and signal strength. It is
+sometimes entertaining to "see" occulted SVs using multipath. You must
+have the PHP-GD library installed to use this script.
+