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authorChris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>2009-07-05 03:22:47 +0000
committerChris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>2009-07-05 03:22:47 +0000
commit39c9eae22038fc1de40e86db35824416368b78b4 (patch)
treea0cf34664c44caec79af11f83496ef5a05fe9747 /gpsd.xml
parent37bc5352ffc2bdf092ca585ee0849b6bcca605e5 (diff)
downloadgpsd-39c9eae22038fc1de40e86db35824416368b78b4.tar.gz
GPSD can now be a gpsd client
that is, it can connect to and relay data from other gpsd instances. Sample usage # gpsd -S 12000 -n 'gpsd://localhost:2947/?raw' # cgps 127.0.0.1:12000
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@@ -186,19 +186,22 @@ to standard error if <application>gpsd</application> is in the foreground
Normally, a data source is the name of a local serial device from
which the daemon may expect GPS data.</para>
-<para>A data source name may also be a URL pointing to a specific
-differential-GPS service (DGPSIP server or Ntrip broadcaster).If the
-URL starts with "ntrip://" Ntrip will be used; if the URL starts with
-"dgpsip://", DGPSIP will be used. <application>Gpsd</application>
-also defaults to DGPSIP if no protocol is defined. For Ntrip services
-that require authentication, a prefix of the form "username:password@"
-can be added before the name of the Ntrip broadcaster. If a suffix of
-the service name begins with ":" it is interpreted as a port number,
-overriding the default IANA-assigned port of 2101. For Ntrip service
-you also need to specify which stream to use; the stream is given in
-the form "/streamname". So, an example DGPSIP URL could be
-"dgpsip://dgpsip.example.com" and a Ntrip URL could be
-"ntrip://foo:bar@ntrip.example.com:80/example-stream". <!-- If this
+<para>A data source name may also be a URI pointing to a specific
+network GNSS service (GPSD server, DGPSIP server or Ntrip broadcaster).
+If the URI starts with "ntrip://" Ntrip will be used; if the URI starts
+with "dgpsip://", DGPSIP will be used; if the URI starts with "gpsd://",
+gps protocols will be used. <application>Gpsd</application> defaults to
+DGPSIP if no protocol is defined. GPSD URIs take an optional argument to
+select the wire protocol: raw, nmea or gpsd - these correspond to "R=2",
+"R=1" and "w=1" modes. For Ntrip services that require authentication, a
+prefix of the form "username:password@" can be added before the name of
+the Ntrip broadcaster. If a suffix of the service name begins with ":"
+it is interpreted as a port number, overriding the default IANA-assigned
+port of 2101. For Ntrip service you must specify which stream to use;
+the stream is given in the form "/streamname". !n example DGPSIP URI could
+be "dgpsip://dgpsip.example.com" and a Ntrip URI could be
+"ntrip://foo:bar@ntrip.example.com:80/example-stream". A gpsd URI could be
+"gpsd://gpsd.example.com:12000/dev/gps1?raw". <!-- If this
option is not given, <application>gpsd</application> will hunt for a
DGPSIP server. --></para>