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GPS expansion board - stephen fleming - 03-22-2016

Are there any plans for a GPS board like Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi?


RE: GPS expansion board - tllim - 03-22-2016

(03-22-2016, 12:11 PM)stephen fleming Wrote: Are there any plans for a GPS board like Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi?

GPS using UART communication, such Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT can runs on Pine A64 with proper UART driver.


RE: GPS expansion board - TheLostBit - 07-05-2016

Hello,
why not use a Bluetooth GPS Unit like Polaris 65 Chanel I65E .
Under Remix OS it runs fine with no Problems.
It used one Nokia Akku BL-5c for several hours.
So you don´t Need any IO Pins on the Pine64.


RE: GPS expansion board - xalius - 07-06-2016

Since most modern GPS receivers just have a UART interface with either NMEA or some binary protocol, a lot of different devices will work. If you need PPS support for time synchronization I saw a thread somewhere here on the forum, can't remember if that works out-of-the-box yet... I use a http://www.drotek.com/shop/en/home/613-ublox-neo-m8n-gps-hmc5983-compass-xl.html usually...