GPSD on Hassos

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,

I am trying to use a USB GPS together with the GPSD integration.
The following USB GPS will be used: NAVILOCK GPS NL-602U USB

According to GPSD I need to install the gpsd software package

My setup for this test was a fresh hassos installation on a proxmox hypervisor using the QCOW2 image from here: https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/
The install went fine just like my main HomeAssistant instance.

I tried a few things using the console from my HomeAssistant test installation but I think Hassio doesnt allow any sort of “normal” linux commands or installations.
apt-get install gpsd
resulted in
/bin/ash: apt-get: not found

Is this just not possible on Hassos? Is it already installed?
What can I do?

Do I need to go and install Hassio Supervised to have the full Hassio Experience but also the ability to install gpsd?

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You’ll need to install it on a different vm or lxc, and use the host option in your homeassistant configuration to point it to the gspd instance there.

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Thats an interesting idea.
I will try and use a small lxc container to just run the gpsd and connect to the USB GPS.

Once I get the GPS (in a few days) I will test it all out and post the results

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I documented how I did something similar. I had to use 2 rPI’s, one for HAOS and one for gpsd.