gpsd gateway - get GPSd data into Reitti

[Stormwind99]

I wrote a gpsd gateway, which I wanted to mention here in case any other folks need to get location data from gpsd into Reitti.

https://github.com/Stormwind99/gpsd-gateway

For my use case, I use the gateway to get GPS data from the gpsd daemon into Reitti via the gpslogger endpoint. I have a Peplink BR2 Pro 5G router with an integrated GPS receiver and rooftop antenna on my camper van/RV, and the BR2 Pro is configured to send NMEA sentences via TCP to gpsd running on my RV's SBC. I then get that gps data into Reitti running on the same SBC, using this gateway process I wrote in Python. I track our travels in Reitti this way, using the multiple device support to track where the camper van is driven, and using on-phone trackers to map our hiking.

I personally run the gateway in a container via Podman under Linux, so I included a Dockerfile to build the container image and an example gpsd-gateway.container Podman Quadlet file to run it in a container.

Background info for gpsd - https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/

"gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer."

gpsd also hides the proprietary differences between different GPS receivers and and provides a uniform, device-independent format for clients, and multiplexes the device to allow multiple client applications to access location data simultaneously without contention.

Edited: Updated with new name

[dgraf-gh]

I love it :) Awesome job.

That Peplink BR2 looks amazing. I do not have any vehicle so this is a whole new world for me, but that and your solution is right up my alley 👍

[Stormwind99]

FYI: I renamed the project to gpsd-gateway since I also added support for HTTP File Uploader endpoints and batching points for a specified interval to upload multiple points in one GPX file.

Is there any difference between Reitti's pre-existing /api/v1/gpx/import endpoint and the new /api/v2/gpslogger/file endpoint? Other than the path and auth token name, they seem to behave the same and both worked with gpsd-gateway.

[dgraf-gh]

From your perspective, they both do the same. The gpslogger endpoint, right now, has an additional check for the test.xml gpslogger sends when the "Test" button is pressed.

I would suggest going against the normal gpx endpoint. There is less potential for surprise in the future if the gpslogger endpoint needs a chabge.