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Re: Low cost GPS receiver?
From: |
Daniel O'Connor |
Subject: |
Re: Low cost GPS receiver? |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Apr 2023 11:01:11 +0930 |
> On 2 Apr 2023, at 10:42, Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 2 Apr 2023, at 07:10, Hal Murray <halmurray@sonic.net> wrote:
>> darius@dons.net.au said:
>>> For NTP purposes USB is fine, and solves both the communications and power
>>> in
>>> the same cable and you don't have to do any soldering either :)
>>
>> That depends on if you want good time or crappy time, and what your versions
>> of good and crappy are.
>
> Naturally, and what you consider 'low cost' :)
>
> At work we have an FTDI RS232 TTL cable connected to a uBlox M8T (that is
> inside a rack in a radar system) that NTP talks to with PPS capture because
> we don't control the firewall so NTP packets are blocked and it suffices to
> keep time well.
I setup ntpviz for it, here's a static grab of the last few days:
https://www.dons.net.au/~darius/chumphon-ntp/
>> I'm interested in better than you can get via USB with the ones I've tried.
>>
>> The firmware in most/many GPS modules seems to do a poor job of scheduling
>> the
>> serial transmissions.
>
> Do you have PPS connected?
> At least on FreeBSD you can tell the ucom driver to capture DCD or CTS with
> the PPS infrastructure which is what I use above.
FWIW the uBlox M8T has a USB interface built in which generates DCD/CTS edges
on the port with PPS.
With something like
https://gnss.store/neo-m8t-timing-gnss-modules/97-elt0085.html and a reasonable
antenna you should be good to go.
--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
-- Andrew Tanenbaum