GPSOut to plain text file

[nadimaj]

A request for Pete,

Would you be able to redevelop GPSOut so that a chosen GPS sentence is output to a raw text file instead of a comms port. If it's too much bother to output all, how about just $GPRMC. I'd gladly do it if you could spare me the code ;)

Thanks

[Pete Dowson]

Would you be able to redevelop GPSOut so that a chosen GPS sentence is output to a raw text file instead of a comms port. If it's too much bother to output all, how about just $GPRMC.

What would be the purpose of such a thing?

I'd gladly do it if you could spare me the code

It would be far easier to implement it as a simple Lua plug-in. It would only need to be a few lines in Lua, reading the relevant offsets, formatting the line and writing to a file, based on a 1 second timer event.

I always tend towards solving simple requests in simple ways, and the Lua plug-ins facility was exactly intended for such purposes.

Regards

Pete

[nadimaj]

What would be the purpose of such a thing?

It would be far easier to implement it as a simple Lua plug-in. It would only need to be a few lines in Lua, reading the relevant offsets, formatting the line and writing to a file, based on a 1 second timer event.

I always tend towards solving simple requests in simple ways, and the Lua plug-ins facility was exactly intended for such purposes.

Regards

Pete

Thanks Pete, I'll try with LUA. I'm helping a colelge student with a project (he needs to see how accurately people can fly in FS using VFR!)

[Pete Dowson]

Thanks Pete, I'll try with LUA. I'm helping a colelge student with a project (he needs to see how accurately people can fly in FS using VFR!)

To get you started, check out the example Lua plug-in called "record to csv". That isn't making GPS type records, but a comma-separated-values file containing lots of relevant information. That format is readable directly into Excel or other spreadsheets for easy analysis.

Regards

Pete