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

[Martin]

Oh noooo...

I've just stumbled across RTKLIB :-)

http://www.rtklib.com/


(Mmmm... Need to get the first bits going first...!)

Any recent pointers?

Cheers,
Martin


On 19/03/2019 17:45, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> 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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