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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on December 22, 2011 at 12:34pm

I don't think anyone has a tried a Locosys for a few years. (That tutorial was for the legacy ArduPilot, now discontinued.) 

APM should support most GPS modules in NMEA mode, however (although it's slow and inefficient).  You should be able to test if your module is in the right mode with the GPS_NMEA_test code in the Libraries/AP_GPS/Examples folder 

The output in the MP terminal is binary MAVlink. It's not supposed to be human readable. 

Nor sure I can offer any help beyond that. I don't even have one of those modules anymore.

Permalink Reply by David Ardis on December 22, 2011 at 12:54pm

Chris

 

What BaudRate shoud I have the gps module set to??

This is the module i have which bought new 2 weeks ago??

http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=104&...

 

David Ardis

3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on December 22, 2011 at 1:05pm

38k.  

There are countless GPS modules out there for sale, some new, some old. We only natively support the ones listed here. You're free to try others, and that's why we have NMEA code included, but we can only offer help for the ones the dev teams use and test themselves, which are on the list of supported equipment. 

Permalink Reply by David Ardis on December 22, 2011 at 2:29pm

Thanks Chris I will have a go at he test code

 

David Ardis

Permalink Reply by David Ardis on December 24, 2011 at 10:04am

I got the module working.

Basically the module is running too fast. I changed the following line in the tutorial

$PMTK314,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0*28 I changed it to

$PMTK314,0,5,5,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0*28

Hope this is useful to someone

David Ardis