[Nottingham] USB dongles/widgets for GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, others) and 3G/4G SMS & data?

[Martin]

A quick internet surf suggests there are a gazillion more recent
USB-based devices at £10 - £20 as compared to some rather clunky
'hat'-based devices at £40 and more that look to use multi-generations
old chipsets...

Hence the question for what are the current devices and are there any
'gotchas'...?

My first impression is that such as u-blox-8 and SiRFstar(-n?) are the
main chipsets to go for... But what are they called once the Marketing
people have renamed them into branding obscurity?!

And full featured rather than suffering a dongled dongle?...


Anyone out there already played with this?

(Especially to use as an ntpd stratum 1 source :-) )

Cheers,
Martin


On 19/03/2019 17:05, VM via Nottingham wrote:
> Why not a pi-specific hat then?
> 
> On 19 March 2019 13:26:48 GMT, Martin via Nottingham
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>     Folks,
> 
>     Anyone any experience with the various £10/£20 USB dongles on linux for
>     GPS and internet?
> 
>     I'm wanting to upgrade one of my RasPi boards to find out for itself
>     what time it is, where it is, and to be able to communicate to the world.
> 
>     Are the USB gizmos any good? Anything to watch out for?
> 
>     There looks to be LOTs of 'em! :-) All with Marketing details only :-(
> 
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Martin
> 
> 
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