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Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2025
I was using this with my Raspberry Pi do get time sync in the field for FT8 and other time sensitive Ham Radio software. It takes 15min-1hr to get a fix in an open area outside. I've only been able to get a fix with an extension USB. I'm possibly getting RFI from my display. I decided to buy a different model with a USB extension and NO flashing lights. this is what I got and it got a fix before I could even run gpsmon, cgps, etc. That will suit my needs, this won't! This is better>VK-162 G-Mouse USB GPS Dongle Navigation Module External GPS Antenna Remote Mount USB GPS Receiver for Raspberry Pi Support Google Earth Window Linux
Michael K.
Reviewed in Germany on September 12, 2024
Top!
Josh
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
I left this in the pi for over an hour, near a window, no lock. I plugged it into a USB outlet and plugged it into the wall literally right next to the pi.....got a lock in 2 minutes.Also note, I have spend well over 8 hrs installing all sorts of different gps software, watches many videos that claimed to fix it....nothing worked.So either there is something different with the newest version of raspberry pi.....or the usbs are just not giving it enough power.Either way, it didn't work for the pi.
Dixie Normus
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024
solid GPS dongle. Significantly better than the cheaper version (VK172). Can get a gps lock and can hold it much better/faster than the other.
John j
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
Great product
Roberto Piccione
Reviewed in Italy on September 3, 2022
Sensibile alla ricezione
Billy D Stephenson
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2022
I bought this to aid in mapping our water and sewer for our town. I’m the water and sewer operator and we had a bunch of old maps but it’s just a shot in the dark tying to find anything. So I’ve been using this to help mark our assets more accurately. This will get it closer for the next person to locate. I don’t really have a Trimble unit to compare it too but it’s close in Google which is what our mapping software is based off of. I use an iPad Pro 12 with this and a cellular data plan and it works great for us.
Andrew edwards
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2022
Device worked as advertised after figuring out the right drivers to use. Windows driver selection by default instantiates the device as a "Sensor" instead of a virtual com port. In theory this should work using windows Sensor API but for most users, they just want the classic NMEA feed on a com port.Following steps had me up and running as expected:follow the below steps to set it:- open Device Manager- find the GNSS locations sensor- right click and select "update Driver Software"- Browse my computer for driver software- Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer- select "u-blox GNSS receiver" in the listI'll buy some more of these.
A. Kubbat
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022
First, I connect it to (free) uBlox software u-center to check functionality and it found location and locked on to GPS & GLOSNASS satellites. But it took ~5 minutes for the first power-on to lock onto location. It took another 5 minutes to get an elevation that was within +-20% of actual elevation.Based on description of this chipset, I was expecting faster acquisition.Google Earth found the COM-port and was able to use location data.Older Microsoft "Autoroute" found COM-port and identified it as GPS -- but it never was able to use the data send by the GPS receiver. I suspect it may have to do with changes to the NMEA protocol.Likely Microsoft "Streets & Trips" will suffer the same incompatibility.I have not yet tested other apps and I am concerned they will have similar problems.Maybe it is possible to change the settings inside this receiver to output data compatible with older software. If not, it is better to use older GPS-receiver.
TryingSolar
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2021
I originally set this up on a raspberry pi, on a table at least 6' insidea room with windows, and it was able to pick up enough of a signalto get useful time information. Once moved to just inside the window,with a sky view, it worked great, and has been since then.I bought it for use with ham radio related software, and found it to bequite reliable. It has been in continuous operation for two weeks. Ichose to connect it to the Pi via a 10' USB3 cable, though it was workingfine plugged directly into the Pi. Even worked with a PiZeroW.
J. Lorenz
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021
It works, you must have patience it can take 20 minutes to acquire satellites. Doesn't look like it's doing anything, but eventually the light will start blinking...
Zathras
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2021
I like the cheerful green LED on this dongle. It is configured for American GPS and Chinese BeiDou satellites It may be possible to re-configure in Windows using the Ublox U-center program but I don't know how.As another reviewer stated, you must use a USB 2 socket, not USB 3.I am using this on a Linux computer for Network Time Protocol. The jitter of the NMEA sentences is amazingly low at a millisecond or less. Not something the average user would care about except as an indication of excellent hardware and software.Linux detects the pulse per second output from this dongle but I have not found a way for NTP to use it. Again, not a thing most users would care about at all.I have this on a 2 metre Amazon USB extension cable in an attic window.On a Raspberry Pi or Linux computer you can install gpsd and gpsd-clients and then use xgps to watch a diagram of the American and Chinese satellites in the sky.I intend to get another one of these.
Joan F
Reviewed in Spain on September 17, 2020
Funciona muy bien pero debemos estar cerca de una ventana para que capte bien la señal.Si estamos algo lejos se puede emplear un cable alargador USB.
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