On Saturday 27 October 2007, Jan Hoevers wrote: > Chuck wrote on 27-10-2007 12:24: > > i have only one problem with changing drivers... i have a web interface set up > > to monitor the sat view. the boss requires it. will look over shm and > > hopefully there is some kind of option for this as well. > > Wouldn't it be a simple solution to split off the RxD wire from the > serial line, and connect it to a second serial port, on the same or > another computer? > RS232 isn't multipoint, so TxD should be kept to a single port. It's > hardly used in this application anyway (only for receiver config). > > This way it would even be possible to feed a range of gps devices and > applications from a single receiver. > I guess the receiver has the power to drive a port or two; if not a > max232 as a buffer would solve that. Max232 is a serial buffer/driver > ic, costs virtually nothing and +5V is at hand for the receiver. >
nice idea! ill keep this as a reference in case we change from gpsd in the future. for now im going to let gpsd settle in without bothering it all the time and see where it goes. > Jan > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers > -- Chuck "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
