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6 gpxlogger - Tool to connect to gpsd and generate a GPX file
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9 gpxlogger [-D debug-level] [-d] [-e export-method] [-f filename] [-l]
10 [-m minmove] [-h] [-V] [-i track timeout] [server [:port
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14 This program collects fixes from gpsd and logs them to standard output
15 in GPX, an XML profile for track logging.
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17 The output may be composed of multiple tracks. A new track is created
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19 defaulting to 5 seconds.
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21 gpxlogger can use any of the export methods that gpsd supports. For a
22 list of these methods, use the -l. To force the method, give the -e one
23 of the colon-terminated method names from the -l table.
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26 The -h option causes gpxlogger to emit a summary of its options and
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29 The -V option causes gpxlogger to dump the package version and exit.
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31 The -D option sets a debug level; it is primarily for use by GPSD
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34 The -d option tells gpxlogger to run as a daemon in background. It
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37 The -m option sets a minimum move distance in meters (it may include a
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40 The -r option tells gpxlogger to retry when GPSd loses the fix. Without
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43 If D-Bus support is available on the host, GPSD is configured to use
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47 With -e sockets, or if sockets is the method defaulted to, you may give
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50 The sockets default is to all devices on the localhost, using the
51 default GPSD port 2947. An optional argument to any client may specify
52 a server to get data from. A colon-separated suffix is taken as a port
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63 example.com:2317
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70 [FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210]:2317:/dev/ttyS5
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75 gpsd(8), gps(1) gpspipe(1)
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78 Amaury Jacquot <sxpert@sxpert.org> & Petter Reinholdtsen
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83The GPSD Project 05 Mar 2017 GPXLOGGER(1)