GPS module

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• VonSzarvas Posts: 3,617

  2020-06-05 16:16

  If the GPS module is supported in Blockly, then you'd find example code and drivers in the latest Simple Libraries workspace.
  
• Rsadeika Posts: 3,862

  2020-06-05 16:33

  I do not do Blockly, but I will look at the code, not sure how far I will get with that.
  
  Ray
• dgately Posts: 1,639

  2020-06-05 17:19

  In SimpleIDE, try:
  

  #include "simpletools.h"
  #include "gps.h"
  
  // ------ Main Program ------
  int main() {
  
    gps_open(0, 32, 9600);
    pause(100);
    print("Starting...");
    print("%s%d\r", "GPS: ", (int)(gps_longitude() * 1000000));
  
  }
  

  This is what BlocklyProp Solo created as C code from a simple GPS block. Look in SimpleIDE's gps lib directory for more options.
  /Learn/Simple Libraries/Sensor/libgps
  
  dgately
• Rsadeika Posts: 3,862

  2020-06-05 18:16

  Thanks dgately. First thing I did was look in the SimpleIDE's gps lib directory, saw at lot of command options, but did not see any example setup code. It looks like Parallax is minimizing support for SimpleIDE.
  
  I will not be using Spin/Spin2 or Blockly, so it looks like my options are starting to become very narrow. Switching over to FleGUI is still to early, FlexGUI has a long way to go, in terms of accessing simpletools lib.
  
  Ray
• dgately Posts: 1,639

  2020-06-05 18:30

  Use this as a guide for what you can do with the GPS (this is how I created the C example):
  
  You'll just have to write bits of C code in place of those GPS library function blocks that BlocklyProp provided.
  
  Like:

  gps_latitude()
  gps_altitude()
  gps_heading()
  gps_speed()
  etc...
  

  

  

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• VonSzarvas Posts: 3,617

  2020-06-05 19:33

  There's a C example here : https://github.com/parallaxinc/Simple-Libraries/tree/master/Learn/Examples/Devices/Sensor/GPS
  
  And another one here : https://github.com/parallaxinc/Simple-Libraries/blob/master/Learn/Simple Libraries/Sensor/libgps/libgps.c
  
  You could try those two. They were originally written for an older GPS module, but should still work. If not, they would only need a very minor tweak.
  
  Thinking about it, the 2nd example is with the current libgps, so I'd expect that to work straight off the bat.