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There is no GPS antenna built into the DRAWS board. That is by design as the DRAWS board is intended to be packaged (along with its host Raspberry Pi) into a metal case which would block an integrated

Yes that is correct. It is a requirement to have some antenna connected to the gps device on the DRAWS HAT. I have used a number of USB gps and I'm impressed how well the DRAWS gps works (11

I will confess that I don't understand the finer points in this discussion . But speaking as an operator who likes to operate out in the field with no Internet, I am surprised that the gps seems to

This config will break some apps, like 'make' which builds depending on time stamps. I'm not sure what else it breaks but I don't recommend your config change. I'll look into it. /Basil

partially true, i changed the line int he chrony.conf file from:towhen you change the makestep to 1 -1 it will instantly change the system time to whatever the time source it chooses

The chrony service does NOT change the time! The misconception is that the chrony service is setting the time to the one given by the NTP server. This is incorrect – what actually happens is that

nope, it just took out the other 4 sources. for whatever reason it's not giving me a sample at all. this is a communication problem between chrony and gpsd

Hi Art Try disabling the pool in chrony.conf, by adding a hashtag in front of that line. Save, restart chrony, give it some time, then check with chonyc sources -v 73 Julian oh8stn Julian

I do have the battery installed, and the rtc does have the correct time, however chrony doesn't view the gps as online and receiving a valid time this is what the sources looks like:and as you can

Thanks John. I was starting to think no feedback was coming. The cable mod was the first thing I did when you suggested it privately by email. it solves the squelch mute problem, but it doesn't solve

John, That did the trick. Thanks for catching that. Daniel

Thanks John. I will give that a go and report back on the result. Daniel

The reason you have a PPS and PPS2 is because you have both of these un-commented. Pick one or the other. Put prefer at the end of the line for the PPS you want to use. You can also remove require

Basil/John, The only way I found to automatically start GPSD on boot is as follows: Ubuntu/Debian The .deb package supplied for the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions launch at boot either

Hi John, I have performed the instructions as specified here (https://nw-digital-radio.groups.io/g/udrc/wiki/DRAWS%E2%84%A2%3A-Setup-GPSD-for-Time-and--Position). On the beta images gpsd comes

The gps realtime clock must be set by the gps (with antenna). Then it should be able to provide a date/time at startup, even if the gps is not active (i.e. not receiving signals from satellites). --

I am replicating the failure of gpsd to start automatically on reboot. I have not found the cause yet.

Hi Basil, Here is the output of ~/n7nix/gps/verify_time.sh pi@draws:~ $ ~/n7nix/gps/verify_time.sh timedatectl Local time: Thu 2018-12-27 21:19:48 EST Universal time:

I did the setup as described in the wiki.... with a battery installed and no gps antenna chronyc sources says that gps is unreachable cgps shows no fix BUT it has the correct date/time the time offset