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

[Josh De La R. <jos...@gm...>]

Thanks for the feedback. I wrote this Notebook
https://github.com/joshdelarosa1/gpsbabel_py/blob/master/GPS_Babel%2BNotebook.ipynb
which calls GPS Babel from within Py.

Josh

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Robert Lipe <rob...@gp...>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
> ​
> 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.
>
> ​
>