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A status app for the GPS receiver, like the GPS Test apps on Android.
Position: coordinates, altitude, speed, course, sunrise and sunset, UTC and local time.
Sky: polar plot of the satellites per system (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS, SBAS, NavIC), used ones filled.
Signal: SNR bar per satellite, grouped by system.
Status: fix type, estimated accuracy, HDOP/VDOP/PDOP, time to first fix, receiver model.
Recording of the RMC, GGA, GSA and GSV sentences to logs/ in the app data folder.
Settings: units, coordinate format, night mode (red on black).
Uses the toolbar and the theme colours. Works with touch, keyboard and trackball.
Requires Tactility PR #733 for the GPS API exports and GSV/GSA output. minmea is bundled under its MIT option, as the SDK doesn't link it into apps (see THIRD_PARTY.md).
Tested on a LilyGO T-Deck with an L76K on the Grove port. Builds for esp32, esp32s3, esp32c6 and esp32p4.
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New Features
Added GPS Viewer with Position, Sky, Signal, and Status screens for live GNSS data, including location, fix quality, satellite visibility, and signal strength.
Added configurable units, coordinate formats, and night mode.
Added NMEA recording with status and log details, plus sunrise and sunset information on the Position screen.
Documentation
Added setup, usage, limitations, and licensing information for GPS Viewer.
A GNSS receiver status app: fix, satellites in view and used, signal
strength, sky plot, position, speed and time. Can record the receiver's
NMEA output to the SD card.
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Apps/GpsViewer/README.md
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/AppContext.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Main.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/MessageCard.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/PositionTab.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Recorder.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Sources.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Sources.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Theme.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Ui.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Widgets.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Widgets.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/GnssModel.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/GnssModel.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/SatelliteDb.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/SatelliteDb.h
Apps/GpsViewer/manifest.properties
Walkthrough
This pull request adds GPS Viewer as a Tactility app. It processes GPS receiver events into GNSS state and satellite data, displays position, sky, signal, and status views, and records reconstructed NMEA sentences. The app includes configurable units, coordinate formats, and night mode, plus keyboard, encoder, pointer, and gesture controls. Build configuration, manifest metadata, release notes, usage documentation, licensing, and third-party attribution are also added.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 8333f
Resolve recording data-loss paths, reader shutdown safety, simulator compilation, and night-mode readability before merging. GPS freshness and settings persistence also need corrections to avoid misleading displays and lost preferences.
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Actionable comments posted: 20
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Due to the large number of review comments, Critical severity comments were prioritized as inline comments.
Major comments: 3
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Recorder.cpp: 2
34-41: Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Prevent recording filenames from overwriting existing logs.
If recording restarts with the same GPS time, fopen(path, "w") erases the earlier log. The GPS time can remain unchanged when RMC updates stop. Create a unique filename with exclusive creation and retry on collisions.
52-59: Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Report recording write failures.
If a write fails or is short, flush() discards the buffered data while recording remains active. The UI continues to show REC and an increasing line count. Check the write and synchronization results, stop recording on failure, and report the error to the user.
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Sources.cpp: 1
207-216: Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Keep the reader’s state alive until it exits.
If a device operation blocks the reader for longer than the shutdown wait, stop() returns while the reader is still active. Closing the app then frees its source and context, so the reader can access freed memory. Keep both allocations alive until the reader signals completion.
Minor comments: 3
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Recorder.cpp: 1
83-85: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Low value
Flush the recording buffer when GPS input is idle.
If the receiver stops after an event is buffered, the deadline is not checked again. A later power loss can lose that log tail, even after more than two seconds. Check the flush deadline independently of incoming events.
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/NmeaWriter.cpp: 1
148-160: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Preserve the GSV signal ID in recordings.
When a final GSV message has fewer than four satellites and a nonzero signal ID, putGsv writes the signal ID as a satellite with zero elevation, azimuth, and SNR. Other tools can then report a fictitious satellite instead of the signal ID. Preserve the signal ID separately when recording.
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Main.cpp: 1
49-52: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Poor tradeoff
Preserve the previous settings during a save.
If a write fails after fopen(path, "w"), the previous settings can be lost. The next launch can silently load defaults or a mixture of saved and default values. Preserve a valid copy until the replacement is complete, and handle write and close errors.
Additional comments: 1
Apps/GpsViewer/THIRD_PARTY.md: 1
3-5: Minor · Potential issue · Quick win
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The new third-party inventory lists only NOAA equations, while the supplied PR description says minmea is bundled under its MIT option. If minmea is included in the distributed app, the inventory omits its attribution and license information.
Recipients consulting the linked third-party inventory do not receive the stated minmea attribution and license information there.
This can occur when: GPS Viewer is distributed with bundled minmea source or object code.
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Apps/GpsViewer/CHANGELOG.md
Apps/GpsViewer/CMakeLists.txt
Apps/GpsViewer/LICENSE
Apps/GpsViewer/README.md
Apps/GpsViewer/THIRD_PARTY.md
Apps/GpsViewer/main/CMakeLists.txt
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/AppContext.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Main.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/MessageCard.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/PositionTab.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Recorder.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Recorder.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/SignalTab.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/SkyTab.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Sources.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Sources.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/StatusTab.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Tabs.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Theme.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Ui.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Ui.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Widgets.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/app/Widgets.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/Format.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/Format.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/GnssModel.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/GnssModel.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/GnssTypes.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/GnssTypes.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/NmeaWriter.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/NmeaWriter.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/SatelliteDb.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/SatelliteDb.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/Settings.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/Settings.h
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/SunTimes.cpp
Apps/GpsViewer/main/Source/core/SunTimes.h
Apps/GpsViewer/manifest.properties
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- Build for the ESP32 platforms only again, the PC build fails
- Timestamp GPS events in the reader and drop events from an earlier receiver connection
- Start the first connection attempt from the clock instead of 0
- Keep GGA and GSA HDOP apart, latch TTFF with the shown fix, expire speed with RMC and altitude with GGA
- Clear used flags per GSA source, also for an empty combined GSA without a fix
- Count GSV merge windows from the first set of an epoch
- Give the menu and settings overlays their own focus group and the night palette, skip the title when wrapping
- Count recording start/stop presses so two quick presses cancel out
- Restore the window background after night mode, and use white on black for night mode on 1-bit displays
- Put the speed statistics on two lines when they don't fit
- Keep no settings and refuse recording without a user data folder, and say so in the menu
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A status app for the GPS receiver, like the GPS Test apps on Android.
Requires Tactility PR #733 for the GPS API exports and GSV/GSA output. minmea is bundled under its MIT option, as the SDK doesn't link it into apps (see THIRD_PARTY.md).
Tested on a LilyGO T-Deck with an L76K on the Grove port. Builds for esp32, esp32s3, esp32c6 and esp32p4.
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