I am trying to create a vehicle tracker, seems a common use case but one not well documented, wanted to use the GPS shield with the NB 1500. I have a SIM via my own provider and not using Arduino cloud. Is there a simple example retrieving the GPS information from the GPS Shield from the NB 1500?
Yes. The Sparkfun lib is IMHO the best. Works perfect with the Arduino GPS Shield with the u_Blox M8Q. Here you find all lib and examples
Ok.. well that is good to know.. I see a ton of examples there with GPS.. different hardware.. are you saying I can use the same code or just follow similar examples.. wonder why the sparkfun stuff is so much more expensive? Were you able to get one of the breakouts to work with the 1500?
Yes, both of them. From the software side there is no difference. I like the Arduino hardware better because you can change the battery, with the sparkfun it's soldered. The PCB is also better and even cheaper then SparkFun, the receiver is the same. The software from sparkfun is extraordinary good, I recommend the UART serial connection with nmea noise turned off, as in example 12.
myGPS.setUART1Output(COM_TYPE_UBX); //Set the UART port to output UBX only
myGPS.setI2COutput(COM_TYPE_UBX); //Set the I2C port to output UBX only (turn off NMEA noise)
With UART you can use a longer cable to the GPS receiver then with I2C. Example 12 is a good start.
Thank you! I will give these a go.. thank you for the references.
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