Re: Recommend a USB gps for Rpi

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo David!

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 07:55:11 +0100
"David J Taylor" <gm8arv@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone on the list recommend a USB gps for the Raspberry Pi?

Any u-blox 8 should be fine, if the antenna is in a window, or better.

The newer u-blox 9 work with less signal than the 8's.

Sparkfun has  a NEO-M9N for $65:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15712

> My
> use case is for it to provide time services to a cluster so it
> doesn’t have to be super accurate. I currently have a u-blox 8 which
> works with gpsd but the time from it jumps all over the place.

What is you definition of "all over the place"?  Anything over USB
will never be better than 1 ms.  Much worse than that indicates a
problem.

RGDS
GARY
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