ttyUSB monitoring (CONTINUED)

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 07:52:49 EST 2008


On Jan 12, 2008 2:08 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:29 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> >> It's using NMEA-0183.
> On Jan 12, 2008 12:11 PM, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> wrote:
> > figuring out the serial protocol may be a bit ugly.
>   Given Thomas's remark and your example format strings,
> http://www.google.com/search?q=NMEA-0183
> seems to be useful.

  Yea, 'sort of'.  I did a bit of research, and it occured to me
exactly what he was trying to do.  The data is NMEA-0183, however,
this particular product tracks historical location information, not
just, 'WTF am I now?'.  Grabbing that stored data is what he's having
issues with.

-- 
-- Thomas


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