Hi,

I'm running ros gpsd client on melodic. I'm conected with an external gpsd via tcp. This gpsd uses an ublox hardware.

What I did:

• Checked communication to external gpsd via gpsmon <ip_of_server> and saw meaningful values
• ran gps_client with appropriate settings on parameter host and port.

Result: on /extended_fix message

header:
  seq: 565
  stamp:
    secs: 1614755865
    nsecs: 571623888
  frame_id: "gps"
status:
  header:
    seq: 0
    stamp:
      secs: 1614755865
      nsecs: 571623888
    frame_id: ''
  satellites_used: 0
  satellite_used_prn: []
  satellites_visible: 0
  satellite_visible_prn: []
  satellite_visible_z: []
  satellite_visible_azimuth: []
  satellite_visible_snr: []
  status: -1
  motion_source: 0
  orientation_source: 0
  position_source: 0
latitude: 0.0
longitude: 0.0
altitude: 0.0
track: 0.0
speed: 0.0
climb: 0.0
pitch: 0.0
roll: 0.0
dip: 0.0
time: 0.0
gdop: 0.0
pdop: 0.0
hdop: 0.0
vdop: 0.0
tdop: 0.0
err: 0.0
err_horz: 0.0
err_vert: 0.0
err_track: 0.0
err_speed: 0.0
err_climb: 0.0
err_time: 0.0
err_pitch: 0.0
err_roll: 0.0
err_dip: 0.0
position_covariance: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
position_covariance_type: 0

Additionally, I've checked the gps_client by means of a local gpsd, gpsfake and an artificial NMEA log. Here, I see meaningful ouput on the ros messages.

Do you have any advice how to find the cause of having no fix when connected to the external gpsd?

Thanks.