Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] DOP, Port Scan & Py

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

Hi and welcome.

1) Is being able to out DOP, including HDOP and PDOP related to the logger
> or the GPS Babel command? I am using "unicsv" to extract data from my
> SkyTraq logger. The HDOP and PDOP are not output. Is that because the
> logger doesn't record it?
>

​DOP isn't something we know how to pull from Skytraq. It's not something
we worry about a whole lot.​

2) Before using a command line statement to pull the data, I have to check
> the Device Manger to find with COM port the logger is registered to. Is
> there a way to scan the ports to find the GPS logger?
>
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Our GUI only offers windows com ports that are available. The CLI version
doesn't offer that.​


> 3) I noticed QGIS has a plug-in to pull data from a GPS logger using GPS
> Babel. Are there any recommendations for using Python to retrieve data from
> a logger?
>

There's another user right now scripting GPSBabel with Python, but it's
really up to you to integrate it in other languages. You just build the
command and shell out to it.

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