GPSDproxy / News: Recent posts

New refactored code. gpsdproxy now uses libgps for gpsd communication. New communication string format, comma separated with decimal values.

Client gpsdproxy is unchanged, but several improvements to the gpsdproxy_server script. It is still a simple Python script, but now it forks into background, logs messages to syslog, authenticates client, does some error handling.
Minor changes to database schema init_pgsql.sql.

This new version of GPSDproxy is almost finished about daemon operations: forks nicely in background, write a PID file, log to syslog, restart UDP socket if internet connection changes.

Next step will be authentication and data encryption.

This is the first release of GPSDproxy, a small program which reads GPS data from a running gpsd process (http://gpsd.berlios.de/) and forwards it to a remote server via an UDP connection.

GPSDproxy is intended to be run on GPS enabled mobile devices. The main features are:

* Very low traffic: can upload the position every 10 seconds, 24h/24h, 7days/week and consume less than 100Mb/month (telco-plan friendly).... read more