GPS Spitting Out Garbage... lots of it.
SuperCricket
Posts: 17
I was trying to get the Parallax GPS to work. I have the +5v, ground, and SIO pin hooked up to Pin 7 with a 1k OHM resistor. The RAW pin is not connected to anything. The GPS is on a breadboard separate from the Propeller Demo board.
I am running the below demo code, the only code I could find that anyone has written for the Propeller and the GPS. The GPS unit powers up and flashes the red LED sometimes up to a minute or two until it goes solid. The TV display is giving me tons of garbage which changes on each update of the screen.
Firmware: 7.?
Date: 02/04/55
Speed: 1679.3 mph
Next update it will go to 3400 mph date will go to 1980 or something else. It is completely random on each update of the screen. The satellites will jump around from 0-200. Garbage LAT and LONG coordinates too.
Here is the original thread I found:
http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=25&m=243895&g=243901#m243901
And the .spin objects are attatched.
Any thoughts?
I am running the below demo code, the only code I could find that anyone has written for the Propeller and the GPS. The GPS unit powers up and flashes the red LED sometimes up to a minute or two until it goes solid. The TV display is giving me tons of garbage which changes on each update of the screen.
Firmware: 7.?
Date: 02/04/55
Speed: 1679.3 mph
Next update it will go to 3400 mph date will go to 1980 or something else. It is completely random on each update of the screen. The satellites will jump around from 0-200. Garbage LAT and LONG coordinates too.
Here is the original thread I found:
http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=25&m=243895&g=243901#m243901
And the .spin objects are attatched.
Any thoughts?
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Chris Savage
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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
The attatched GPS code in my original post is correct and works well. Turns out we had a bad GPS unit from the electronics store here. Replaced it and it got a lock and started updating the values immediately.
Party on.
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=562370
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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support