Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, randy warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how smart gpsd is, but it may not know about switching the receiver between binary and NMEA mode. Since the gpsd commands you show in your email specify 9600 baud, I assume you want binary? gpsd can't do

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth randy warner at 2008-04-03 11:09... snip The battery can indeed cause some problems if you don't have the software necessary to reset the receiver to a known state. The simplest thing to do is get a copy of Rick Hambly's TAC32 at cnssys.com. TAC32 will light up just about any Moto

[time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks Now that I've got a computer ready to be a time server, I am now fiddling about with my GPS modules, checking that they are working and the like. As I have yet to build and interface board for my Trimbles (requires a very fine pitch IDC connector, which is on backorder), I am testing

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is puzzling me about the VP is why I was unable to get this working myself. Through minicom, at both 9600bps and 4800bps, I typed @@Ci, which the manual tells me should get the device into NMEA mode. Nothing

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Hal Murray
My manual suggests you need to send @@CimodecksumCRLF I had a similar problem a while ago. I wrote a simple python hack to compute the checksum. The manual probably has an example you can test it on. I sent individual commands with things like this: echo -e -n \$PSRF103,0,0,0,1*24\r\n

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's also worth checking gpsd. It knows how to talk to lots and lots of GPS units and can smash some of them into a useful state. I haven't got around to writing an oncore driver yet. There was one in the works but the

Re: [time-nuts] Connecting my Oncores

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Chris Kuethe at 2008-04-02 16:15... On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Hal Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's also worth checking gpsd. It knows how to talk to lots and lots of GPS units and can smash some of them into a useful state. I haven't got around to writing an oncore driver