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INDI Library v2.0.6 is Released (02 Feb 2024)

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Solved: Help requested: GPS setup

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Hello all,

I plan to do some traveling with a small, lightweight setup. Given I’ll be traveling I wanted to add a GPS to my Pi4 setup. I decided to pick up this little GPS unit:
Inexpensive GPS

It doesn’t seem to quite work yet and so I started reading here:
GPS Setup Docs

I turned off the virtual GPS.
I turned on the GPSD in the INDI setup (or so I think I did).
But still, when I check out the GPS status, I have been seeing the “Fix” = “waiting” for over 20 minutes and no GPS data shows up in the GPS info.

Does anyone have thoughts or pointers to how I may get this up and running?

Thank you for your time and help with this,
Brett
3 years 9 months ago #55928

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Hello all,

I wanted to report that I solved the issue by turning of the gps simulator.

Question: Why isn't the GPS sim turned of by default when you activate the GPSD?

Thanks,
Brett
3 years 9 months ago #56052

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I spent several days making a USB GPS work with my Astroberry setup, it only interfered with all kinds of equipment (cameras, mount communications, etc). I gave up and re-imaged my astroberry setup and it's been great, I have a CEM60EC with built in GPS and since I use KSTARS as my imaging system / plate solving / focus / slewing/ everything system, I told EKOS to source the GPS data from the mount.

Wish I had a solution for you, but I tried EVERYTHING, I MEAN everything to make GPSD work.
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