gpsd to gpslogger gateway - get GPSd data into Reitti

[Stormwind99]

I wrote a gpsd to gpslogger endpoint 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-to-gpslogger-endpoint

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-to-gpslogger-endpoint.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.