@xfactor99: I did not realize but this indeed will prevent future problems.
@sean: I downloaded and tested your change against signalk 1.37.4 and it is effective. I reported the signalk-xte issue in github https://github.com/pypilot/pypilot/issues/70
@sean: I downloaded and tested your change against signalk 1.37.4 and it is effective. I reported the signalk-xte issue in github https://github.com/pypilot/pypilot/issues/70