Re: [Paparazzi-devel] GPS_PORT_ID

[Ben Laurie]

https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/pull/569

On 26 October 2013 18:43, Ben Laurie <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26 October 2013 14:28, Freek van Tienen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Yes it is a bit confusing, but it should talk to the right device...
>> The GPS Port is emulated as an UART1 device inside paparazzi, zo that it can
>> handle all the normal paparazzi code.
>>
>> What I advice you to do is to telnet in the device and stop the ap.elf and
>> start it yourself so that you see the printf output. Normally when you
>> enable the ublox ucenter module it will output at which baudrates it tries
>> to connect to the GPS to set the correct settings. You could also enable
>> some more printf's inside the ubloc ucenter module if I'm right. End else
>> enable the printf's inside the uart code of the omap arch, then it will
>> output all the informations end to and from the gps.
>
> I've actually made it work, there'll be a pull request shortly.
>
> But I still maintain that the GPS_PORT_ID setting doesn't work. I had
> to change it in the C file.
>
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/26 Ben Laurie <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> I'm working on fixing the problem with u-blox over USB.
>>>
>>> conf/modules/gps_ubx_ucenter.xml has this line:
>>>
>>>     <define name="GPS_PORT_ID" value="GPS_PORT_UART2" description=""/>
>>>
>>> but as far as I can tell, this value is not actually used anywhere
>>> (that is, GPS_PORT_ID is not actually set by this line).
>>>
>>> How is this supposed to work?
>>>
>>> Likewise, ardrone2_raw.makefile has:
>>>
>>> GPS_PORT           ?= UART1
>>>
>>> which actually does appear to be used. But does not define GPS_PORT_ID
>>> - which is probably correct, since it seems its talking about a
>>> different kind of UART, but ... rather confusing!
>>>
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