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authorSanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>2015-03-25 00:51:38 +0800
committerGary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>2015-03-25 14:05:35 -0700
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Updating documentation in contrib/
Tested that webgps.py works, and updated README Signed-off-by: Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>
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@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ lla2ecef transforms latitude/longitude/altitude (aka north-east-up or local
tangential plane) coordinates into the earth-centered-earth-fixed frame. If
invoked as "ecef2lla" it will transform coordinates in the opposite manner.
+ppscheck watches a specified serial device for changes in handshake lines
+CD, RI, and CTS by running ioctl(...., TIOCMIWAIT, ...) in a loop. When it
+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 have been tested to work with gpsd v3.14, as of 2015-03-23
+
webgps.py draws a sky view of the satellites and their tracks using HTML5. It
needs to run continuously in order to build a history and generate the
satellite tracks. Your browser must be able to display the <canvas> element to
@@ -34,12 +43,6 @@ 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, 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
-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.