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I'm looking at running a QGIS workshop, including covering the GPS capabilities.</div>
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For attendees to access a GPS, I have a file of logged GPS NMEA sentences being fed through gpsd,</div>
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(obviously on Linux) tested and working with gpsmon, as shown, connecting to port 2947 on localhost. </div>
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xgps & cgps also work fine, just as expected.</div>
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When I try to use QGIS (v3.34.15) to use the same port for GPS data (running on the same Linux computer)</div>
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it fails to connect. Just the red error bar with the usual message. The settings seem fine. </div>
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The NMEA data were captured using QGIS in the first place. </div>
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Any suggestions? I don't see why QGIS fails to find and connect to the usual gpsd stream when the other apps find it just fine.</div>
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Thanks</div>
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Brent Wood</div>
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