HG board GPS setup / problems

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So… I’ve been playing with the HackerGadgets board for a while now. However I have some issues.

If I run pygpsclient, I get the satellites signal bars and eventually get a lock (sometimes it is slow). If I close pygps, and start gpsd service, when I use gpsmon or cgps, I only see mode (1,2or3) and the position. All of these coming from TPV data. No SKY packets. So it seems thwt pygpsclient can interpret the complete raw data from the GPS module, however gpsd does not.

Does anybody else experience this? Do you have working configs for gpsd?

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Have you removed “console=serial0,115200” from cmdline.txt?

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my /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt files is:

console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=53919361-02 rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet fbcon=rotate:1 psi=1 splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=RO

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does my cmdline.txt look ok?

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It looks ok. I believe it’s some issue related to the software. But I haven’t figured it out.

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I had a similar issue with this board, since I also have the 4G board. I had set the connection to start automatically at boot, and both boards use the same GPIO port. As a result, with the HG board I also had the GPS not working, which I fixed by disabling the automatic 4G connection.