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Is it possible to use ogps for a generic GPS tracker



  • @Radek said in Is it possible to use ogps for a generic GPS tracker:

    ok, I am really despaired.

    Relax, we get this sorted.

    When I have ogps installed:

    • When I ask baud rate with stty it gives me 4800
    • I'm trying to change the baud rate to 9600 (with stty) it won't let me

    OK, I assume this is because the device is already open (in use), my mistake. What's the exact error message?

    I'm away from my h/w at the moment but I can have a look on Monday how we can convince ugps to run with a different baudrate.



  • @Radek @Marko-Lukat From the code we can see the device is opened at 4800:

    if (nmea_open(device, &stream, B4800) < 0)

    I'm not sure why this is the case.



  • @Radek I updated the code to set baud rate to 9600, you can see if it works or not, I can't test as I don't have an LTE device.

    I built it for you to try, you can find the binary here:

    https://github.com/crispyoz/ogps.git



  • ok, so I decided to start from scratch. I reseted my Omega2+ to factory settings. Then installed stty, and screen.
    Now the default baud rate for ttyS0 is set to 115200 which kinda make sense as it is the baud rate you can see in docs should be the default.
    I checked the ttyS1 and the baud rate is by default set to 9600 so I connected the tracker to the ttyS1
    After this:

    • I can read it with cat and it gives me correct data.
    • I can read it with screen and it gives me correct data as well.

    As next I installed ogps, configured it to use ttyS1. Then run ubus call gps info but still no signal.
    Then I replaced the /usr/sbin/ugps with the version provided by @crispyoz (a huge, huge thanks for it) run ubus call gps info and not getting signal as well.

    Following it I installed gpsd and gpsd-clients, configured it. After running gpsmon and can see following

    Screenshot 2020-06-28 at 16.28.18.png

    So that seems to be working fine. Also cgps -s seems to be working fine:

    Screenshot 2020-06-28 at 15.58.01.png

    I could of course try to use gpsd but I would really prefer to get ogps working.

    Another question is: can I change the baud rate of ttyS0? Because I need also to connect the GSM module which also requires baud rate of 9600.

    If I understand it correctly the baud rate of 115200 is set by the operating system because Omega2 is sending login data during boot process. If I am not wrong in regular Linux I could change the kernel boot option but I don't know how to do this in Omega.

    Oh yes, and I can't change the baud rate using stty. When I try to execute stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600 it just hang until I kill it with ctrl+c

    So here I am right now. Thanks a lot for your help guys



  • @Radek This being Monday I verified that ogps9600 does in fact work with a 9600 baud terminal interface (šŸ‘ @crispyoz). However, I had cases where it simply got stuck. My test sequence is that I feed an external 4800 baud stream into ttyS1 which I then change to 9600 baud and see if ugps recovers. The problem here was that if I feed garbage for too long there was no recovery. If the interval is short enough everything turns out ok.

    I'd like you to test the executable from my github repo. This is also hardwired to 9600 baud but it also writes the callback buffer to a logfile (/tmp/oink.log, don't ask).

    • download
    • chmod +x ugps9600+logging
    • stop any other ugps task
    • ./ugps9600+logging /dev/ttyS1 &

    If everything works out the logfile will keep growing and you can see effectively how all the NMEA sequences build up.

    If you think it's stuck (ubus command doesn't show anything for an extended length of time) check the logfile, my assumption here is that it will have stopped growing at this point. Each line in said file is the buffer length followed by a hex entry count followed by the buffer content (in brackets), e.g.

    14, 0000000E: [[random garbage]]

    When it gets stuck for me the buffer has grown to a size of 4K which is critical as from this point onward there won't be any more message callbacks to ugps. IOW no recovery. My guess would be that this is the buffer limit for ustream and unless you consume its data you won't get any new stuff.

    I'm toying with an idea to force a flush/consumption if the buffer grows unreasonably large for valid NMEA but lets figure out your issue first.



  • @Marko-Lukat This seems like classic buffer overrun behaviour which would make sense since you're feeding the terminal at double the rate.



  • Guys, as first I would just like to say, I'm involved in an Open Source project and participate in few others and I really don't remember to ever encounter such a friendly and helpful community. I really thank you so much.

    @Marko-Lukat : sadly it still doesn't work for me and the log file (nice name) is being actually filled with correct data. I'm pretty sure I'm screwing something.

    Attaching the log file.

    Sorry, wasn't able to upload for some reason. Here it is: https://cloud.sigsiu.net/f/d3d210f48188414581e0/



  • wow, wait, it looks like the coordinates in the file are multiplied about 100 times



  • @Radek said in Is it possible to use ogps for a generic GPS tracker:

    wow, wait, it looks like the coordinates in the file are multiplied about 100 times

    That's how it is defined. Don't worry.

    BUT ... ugps is hardwired for $GP on the sequences it accepts (RMC/GGA/VTG/TXT). And your device delivers $GN. Ouch! Looks like we need a lot of fixes!

    • configurable baudrate (at least 4800..115200)
    • ignore initial two letters
    • potentially fix callback starving

    Just noticed that your first data dump shows $GP sentences, but the logfile uses $GN where it matters ... otherwise we'd have spotted it earlier.



  • A new test version is available from github. Baudrate can now be specified with the -b parameter, NMEA sentence filtering is now more relaxed.



  • Wow, we are definitely a step further. When I start the version @Marko-Lukat provided with ugps -b 9600 -S -d 7 /dev/ttyS1 this is what I am getting:

    root@Omega-9A9F:~# ugps -b 9600 -S -d 7 /dev/ttyS1
    Failed to add object: Invalid argument
    ugps: date: 2020-06-30T19:51:08 UTC
    ugps: position: 49.928734 9.003940
    ugps: height: 149.8
    ugps: date: 2020-06-30T19:51:09 UTC
    ugps: position: 49.928734 9.003942
    ugps: height: 149.5
    ugps: date: 2020-06-30T19:51:10 UTC
    ugps: position: 49.928734 9.003942
    ugps: height: 149.1
    ugps: date: 2020-06-30T19:51:11 UTC
    ugps: position: 49.928734 9.003945
    ugps: height: 148.8
    ugps: date: 2020-06-30T19:51:12 UTC
    ugps: position: 49.928726 9.003947
    ugps: height: 148.5
    

    I modified the /etc/init.d/ugps like this:

    #!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
    # Copyright (c) 2014 OpenWrt.org
    
    START=80
    
    USE_PROCD=1
    PROG=/usr/sbin/ugps
    
    service_triggers() {
    	procd_add_reload_trigger gps
    }
    
    start_service() {
    	local tty="$(uci get gps.@gps[-1].tty)"
    
    	[ -d "/sys/class/tty/$tty/" ] || return
    
    	procd_open_instance
    	procd_set_param command "$PROG" "-d 9600" "/dev/$tty"
    	procd_set_param respawn
    	procd_close_instance
    }
    

    But ubus call gps info still returns:

    root@Omega-9A9F:~# ubus call gps info
    {
    	"signal": false
    }
    

    I am probably missing some small thing. But thanks a lot for your help. It's already a huge successes.

    Regards,
    Radek



  • Ok guys, I discovered another thing. When I start the demon with the file I modified it will return the signal=false. But if I start ugps manually with ugps -b 9600 /dev/ttyS1 & the ubus call gps info will return

    root@Omega-9A9F:~# ubus call gps info
    {
    	"age": 1,
    	"latitude": "49.928703",
    	"longitude": "9.003965",
    	"elevation": "147.6",
    	"course": "",
    	"speed": ""
    }
    

    So I am pretty sure the ogps itself works perfectly ok now.



  • This (Failed to add object) sounds more like there is already/still a gps ubus object added to the daemon. Can you make sure there is no other ugps instance running?

    Also in your init.d script, I assume this is a typo and it actually reads -b 9600, not -d 9600?!



  • OMG. I am such an idiot. One typo and I am wasting your precious time. But

    It is XXXXX works right now

    Thank you sooooo much. It works perfectly now. I am sooooo happy.

    Regards,
    Radek



  • Sorry about the f word šŸ˜§



  • @Radek it is a breach of the terms of use. I edited it out rather than apply any penalty.



  • @crispyoz I got it. Thanks a lot. I was just too excited šŸ˜Š



  • @Radek I think we all appreciate your passion and we look forward to your future contributions.


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