How Can I make Kstars read the GPS from a WWAN card?

[Jens Scheidtmann]

Hi Rani,

using "gpsd read from pipe", this StackOverflow turns up:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54903967/gpsd-how-to-create-a-virtual-gps-source-with-lat-lon-as-input

HTH; Jens

Am Mo., 8. Jan. 2024 um 06:39 Uhr schrieb Jasem Mutlaq <
mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>:

> Hello Rani,
>
> There are 2 methods that I know of:
>
> 1. Can GPSD use this NMEA stream? If it is possible then you can then just
> use GPSD. Not sure if GPSD supports NICs.
> 2. Develop INDI driver to read and process the NMEA stream. This is a lot
> of work of course, but if the GPSD option does not work then this is the
> only option.
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 6:35 PM Rani Ahmed <ranixlb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello. I run Debian Linux version 12. I recently bought a WWAN card. WWAN
>> is short for wireless WAN. It's a 4G and 3D Internet modem and has a GPS
>> receiver built in the card. I am running it on my Dell laptop workstation
>> precision 7530.
>> This is the *lsusb* result of the card:
>>
>> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:81cc Dell Computer Corp. DW5816e Snapdragon™
>> X7 LTE
>>
>> the WWAN modem is shown this way by this command:
>>
>> *mmcli --list-modems *
>> which produces this output:
>>     /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0 [Sierra Wireless,
>> Incorporated] DW5816e Snapdragon™ X7 LTE
>>
>> There is no /dev/ttyUSB0 or whatsoever in order to forward the GPS data
>> to the gpsd server so I can make kstars read gpsd.
>>
>> I only can read GPS NMEA data and GPS RAW data if I issue the command to
>> enable the :
>> *mmcli -m 0 --location-enable-gps-nmea*
>> *mmcli -m 0 --location-enable-gps-raw*
>>
>> This is the command that shows the GPS data.
>> *mmcli -m 0 --location-get *
>>
>> example result:
>>  -----------
>>   GPS | nmea: $GPGSA,A,2,12,25,,,,,,,,,,,3.8,3.7,1.0*39
>>       |
>> $GPRMC,152923.0,A,3334.300377,N,03523.614765,E,0.0,295.0,070124,3.2,E,A*03
>>       |
>> $GPGSV,3,1,12,06,08,036,20,11,38,049,21,12,61,077,22,18,08,206,16*72
>>       |
>> $GPGSV,3,2,12,20,25,092,18,25,64,338,22,32,01,264,15,05,16,132,*77
>>       |       $GPGSV,3,3,12,24,18,174,,28,21,312,,29,47,278,,31,01,323,*7A
>>       |       $GPVTG,295.0,T,291.8,M,0.0,N,0.0,K,A*2F
>>       |
>> $GPGGA,152923.0,3334.300377,N,03523.614765,E,1,04,2.9,93.4,M,22.0,M,,*64
>>
>
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