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Bruce Simpson

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  • Email: bms@FreeBSD.org
  • Registered on: 06/17/2016
  • Last connection: 09/03/2016

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08/11/2016

11:02 AM pfSense Feature #6546: pfSense should support logging to e.g. ELK stacks
Parsing syslog input is indeed dog simple in Python with asyncore. I should be able to just glue this together to my ... Bruce Simpson

08/10/2016

08:33 AM pfSense Feature #6546: pfSense should support logging to e.g. ELK stacks
I now have that Python code wrapped up as a class, for use with Python logging. A current limitation is that logging ... Bruce Simpson

07/18/2016

11:45 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
And now I've had gpsmon SIGSEGV on me. It doesn't happen often, but it has happened from time to time.
gpsd itself...
Bruce Simpson
09:28 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
I think there may also be (benign) bugs in the gpsmon monitor for UBX in gpsd.
I just swapped out a car antenna (S...
Bruce Simpson

07/16/2016

11:11 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
An apparently identical uBlox5 MiniPCIe module (on site at a client's0 stops responding after CFG-PRT to UBX only.
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Bruce Simpson

07/14/2016

03:14 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
Using gpsctl to initialize the GPS is rather slow, due to the repeated auto-detection (even when the device type is f... Bruce Simpson
03:09 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
uBlox5 1PPS modifications. From memory, I believe green is TX data (at 3.3V level), grey is 1PPS (also 3.3V; configur... Bruce Simpson
02:21 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
Woops. Forgot to update the comment about 1PPS. We need it to supply only UTC seconds, and that's what the blob does.... Bruce Simpson
02:10 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
This !ublox5-boot.sh! is a bit ugly to embed in Shellcmd, but good enough to copy to /root and invoke from there. Bruce Simpson
01:19 AM pfSense Feature #6569: Support Rockwell ZODIAC binary protocol (Jupiter receiver) for high precision
I now have a fix. I traced this back to an error in the NAVX5 message.
There is a 2-byte version (0000) in front wh...
Bruce Simpson

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