### GPSDConfig Help

### How to install gpsd

gpsd is the daemon responsible for listening to and interpreting the constant stream of data being transferred from your GPS receiver to your Mac computer.

It will format the incoming data into a more easily recognisable sequence of JSON data and forward the JSON data to listening client applications.

gpsd is not available through the Mac App Store, but it can be easily installed (or uninstalled) with the Homebrew Package Manager.

#### Installing Homebrew

Installing Homebrew is most easily done via the Terminal application in the `/Application/Utilities` folder on your Mac.

Open Terminal and paste: `/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"` Then press the return key

You will be prompted for your Admin password as some of the actions taken by the install process require privileged access.

Please read the output carefully as you may be prompted for further actions.

With Homebrew installed you are ready to install gpsd.

#### Installing gpsd

Open Terminal and enter `brew install gpsd` followed by the return key.

Thats it!!

After installing any required dependencies, gpsd itself is installed, followed by a note about configuring your gpsd receiver device.

You can safely ignore this note if you are using GPSDConfig. The end result will be the same but GPSDConfig offers a friendly GUI for selection and configuration of your receiver device.

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