1GPXLOGGER(1)                  GPSD Documentation                  GPXLOGGER(1)
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NAME

6       gpxlogger - Tool to connect to gpsd and generate a GPX file
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SYNOPSIS

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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DESCRIPTION

14       This program collects fixes from gpsd and logs them to standard output
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17       The output may be composed of multiple tracks. A new track is created
18       if there's no fix written for an interval specified by the -i and
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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OPTIONS

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
32       developers. It enables various progress messages to standard error.
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34       The -d option tells gpxlogger to run as a daemon in background. It
35       requires the -f option, which directs output to a specified logfile.
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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
44       it, and -e dbus is specified, this program listens to DBUS broadcasts
45       from gpsd via org.gpsd.fix.
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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
53       number. If there is a second colon-separated suffix, that is taken as a
54       specific device name to be watched. However, if the server
55       specification contains square brackets, the part inside them is taken
56       as an IPv6 address and port/device suffixes are only parsed after the
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60           Look at the default port of localhost, trying both IPv4 and IPv6
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63       example.com:2317
64           Look at port 2317 on example.com, trying both IPv4 and IPv6.
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66       71.162.241.5:2317:/dev/ttyS3
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70       [FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210]:2317:/dev/ttyS5
71           Look at port 2317 at the specified IPv6 address, collecting data
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SEE ALSO

75       gpsd(8), gps(1) gpspipe(1)
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AUTHORS

78       Amaury Jacquot <sxpert@sxpert.org> & Petter Reinholdtsen
79       <pere@hungry.com> & Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>
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83The GPSD Project                  05 Mar 2017                     GPXLOGGER(1)