Hi all,

I have two astroberries on my network, one with a UBlox GPS dongle, the other without.

DeviceOne,
GPS dongle works fine - plug it in and time/location update, indi driver runs, GPS panel updates location etc etc. I've disabled VirtualGPS and set gpsd listen stream to 0.0.0.0:2947

All good.


DeviceTwo
I've disabled VirtualGPs etc.
Ekos sees the GPS Indi driver on DeviceOne, so KStars updates correctly, etc
CGPS, GPSMon, XGPS can all see GPS on DeviceOne:2947 and report position/time from it correctly.

All good.

What I would like is for DeviceTwo astroberry OS, GPS Panel, system time etc to also update from the GPS on DeviceOne

But, in GPS Panel on DeviceTwo, all I see is "Waiting....".

I've plugged the GPS dongle into DeviceTwo and GPS Panel etc all update correctly.

So I want GPS Panel, system time etc on DeviceTwo to be set from GPS on DeviceOne.

Anybody point me at what I need to do to get DeviceTwo to see the GPS on DeviceOne and behave as though it were directly connected?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

A combination of tty_bus , tty_attach, tty_fake to multiplex the serial port, and then a use of socat to transport one serial port over the network would probably do this. As the GPS is an output only device it shouldn't be too difficult. You can search sites like stackexchange for some script examples.

I've used this to connect multiple computers to the same gpsd:

gist.github.com/rickbassham/61d3b02ce959...656a7125#remote-gpsd

This is done on the machine NOT running gpsd. Just update the remote host to be the ip or hostname of the machine running gpsd.

Thanks guys,

I'll try these later in the week and let you know

Mark

I gave up. I tried all sorts and mostly achieved nothing.

In fact, I've given up with astroberry - gone back to good old Buster/Indiwebmanager on PIs, and Ubuntu/kstars on laptop.

It was an interesting exercise, but in the end beyond my skills (and patience). And there's probably no real need to do what was just a fanciful idea.

Mark

One way of sharing GPS with INDI from one device to another would be to add GPSD as a remote driver to your profile.

Sharing GPS with Indi was the easy bit, that works well.

I was trying to share with Astroberry OS, so on all Astroberry devices the GPS panel etc would update.

It was more of a mind game than a necessity. There is every chance I missed something obvious. I might try again one bored day.