srgny wrote:jarchie wrote: is no way to disable the "gps lost" message presently, but that's a feature that would be really easy to add. I'm traveling right now, but could probably make that change in a few days or so when I get back home.
Changing the firmware would be awesome.
Sorry for the delay, but better late than never. :-) This change has been made now.
The xmas menus are already a bit complicated, and I think the vast majority of people want to be alerted when their GPS loses a fix. So disabling the "gps lost" message is a compile-time option. The last bit of the "GPS Timekeeping" section in config.h now looks like
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// In most cases, the clock should report an error if the GPS loses
// its fix. But users with no GPS reception might want to disable the
// "gps lost" error message. Those users will instead move their
// clocks to an area of good reception whenever they wish to
// syncronize the clock time with the GPS time. To disable the GPS
// lost error message, comment out the GPS_LOST_ERROR_MSG macro below.
//
//
#define GPS_TIMEKEEPING
#define GPS_LOST_ERROR_MSG
To disable the "gps lost" message for your clock, follow the
Windows installation tutorial like before. Be sure to download the
latest version of xmas from GitHub. And when you get to the part where you edit config.h, comment out the GPS_LOST_ERROR_MSG macro definition by adding "//" at the start of the line:
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// In most cases, the clock should report an error if the GPS loses
// its fix. But users with no GPS reception might want to disable the
// "gps lost" error message. Those users will instead move their
// clocks to an area of good reception whenever they wish to
// syncronize the clock time with the GPS time. To disable the GPS
// lost error message, comment out the GPS_LOST_ERROR_MSG macro below.
//
//
#define GPS_TIMEKEEPING
//#define GPS_LOST_ERROR_MSG
After that change is made to config.h, follow the tutorial instructions for building and installing the new firmware. And voila! No more flashing "gps lost"!
srgny wrote:Thanks again for all your help!!!
You're very welcome!