I'm trying to setup the hotspot I keep in my car to beacon my position to APRS using a USB GPS dongle. I bought a GlobalSat BU-353S4 USB dongle and it's a fresh install of pi-star 4.1.4. I turned on mobileGPS and set the port to ttyUSB0 with port speed of 4800. The mobileGPS file was created in /etc and has the correct info in it. If i turn on logging and check that file i can see the GPS info being sent from the globalsat. I can also cat /dev/ttyUSB0 and see the data. In config i set lat/lon to 0.0 that i saw in another post and in expert YSF GW settings I turned on APRS and GPSD but it's not sending the beacon to APRS or updating my position.
If i put in my lat/lon it does send APRS beacons but not the suffix i set in YSF GW APRS of 2. The ID it sends is callsign-n. If i change the suffix to 2 from ND in the YSF GW general section it sends the correct ID but applying any changes on the configuration page resets this back to ND.
So do I have the GPS setup correctly and the feature just isn't ready yet or am I missing something to get it to work?
73,
Paul KE8PHG
MobileGPS YSF GW
General support for the Pi-Star System
Return to “Pi-Star General Support”
Jump to
- Pi-Star Information
- ↳ Announcements
- ↳ Feature Requests
- ↳ FAQ
- Software Support
- ↳ Pi-Star General Support
- ↳ WiFi Setup
- ↳ IP Networking
- ↳ D-Star Specific Support
- ↳ DMR Specific Support
- ↳ YSF Specific Support
- ↳ P25 Specific Support
- ↳ NXDN Specific Support
- ↳ POCSAG Specific Support
- Hardware Support
- ↳ Raspberry Pi Foundation Hardware
- ↳ Friendly Arm Nano Pi Neo / Neo Air
- ↳ Hardkernel Odroid XU3 / XU4
- ↳ Orange Pi Zero
- ↳ Nextion Screens
- ↳ OLED Screens
- ↳ ZUMSpot (Hat / Libre / USB)
- ↳ MMDVM_HS Hat(s)
- ↳ DV-Mega Hat(s)
- ↳ DV-Mega GMSK Arduino
- ↳ DVAP Dongle
- ↳ DVR-PTR V1 V2 V3
- ↳ Other MMDVM Modem Boards
- ↳ Other All-in-one Boards with included RF
- ↳ Radio Equipment
- Repeater Keepers
- ↳ Software Support
- ↳ Hardware Support
- ↳ Everything Else
- Tutorials
- ↳ W1MSG Video Tutorials
- ↳ User Submitted Video Tutorials
- ↳ Tips and Tricks
- General Conversation
- ↳ Share your stuff
- ↳ I'm new here
- ↳ CQ CQ CQ
- ↳ I need to vent
- ↳ The Bar