node-gpsd-client

A Nodejs GPSD client

Forked from and heavily inspired by Node GPSD project, with a few little differences:

• GPSD client only
• No builtin logger
• Using message buffer to overcome TCP fragmentation
• Auto reconnect if connection suddently dropped

Usage Example

const Gpsd = require('node-gpsd-client')
const client = new Gpsd({
  port: 2947,              // default
  hostname: 'localhost',   // default
  parse: true
})

client.on('connected', () => {
  console.log('Gpsd connected')
  client.watch({
    class: 'WATCH',
    json: true,
    scaled: true
  })
})

client.on('error', err => {
  console.log(`Gpsd error: ${err.message}`)
})

client.on('TPV', data => {
  console.log(data)
})

client.connect()

Options

• port: set GPSD port, defaults to 2947
• hostname: set GPSD hostname, defaults to localhost
• parse: parse data as JSON object
• reconnectThreshold: max seconds to consider connection is dead since last data received, defaults to 0
• reconnectInterval: interval in seconds to detect a connection, defaults to 0

Reconnection will only run when both reconnectThreshold and reconnectInterval is greater than 0.

License: MIT