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Kismet says it will log GPS to database but does not unless location is already fixed #481

Open chrisbnyc opened 9 months ago

chrisbnyc commented 9 months ago

I am using Kismet on:

I am fairly confident that the GPS signal is working because I can see GPS data through cgps and gpsmon.

Many many times starting kismet without a locked 2D or 3D signal, I would see the UI say it was connecting to gpsd on the correct port and that it would log data. Then after getting a lock outside my office, I would see the gps stay 'green' but upon returning indoors to view my kismet log it was full of empty lat/lon data.

I was convinced I had a configuration error but I finally managed to get an indoor GPS fix before running kismet, and it logged data as expected.

So this is either working as expected (you need a fix before launching kismet) or I have a configuration error / bug where if it starts out connected to gpsd but if there is no data it never logs GPS.

Is this expected behavior?