gbxgarminacfr

Gearbox Garmin GPS driver

This driver provides a interface_gps interface to Garmin GPS devices, as well as any other GPS device supported by the GbxGarminAcfr library. This should include most GPS devices that use NMEA to communicate.

Compile-time dependencies
  • Gearbox library GbxGarminAcfr
Provides
  • interface_gps
    • Output GPS interface
Supported configuration requests
  • None.
Configuration file options
  • read_gga (boolean)
    • Default: true
    • Read and parse GGA messages.
  • read_vtg (boolean)
    • Default: true
    • Read and parse VTG messages.
  • read_rme (boolean)
    • Default: true
    • Read and parse RME messages.
  • ignore_unknown (boolean)
    • Default: false
    • Silently ignore unknown messages.
  • port (string)
    • Default: /dev/ttyS0
    • Serial port the laser is connected to.
  • debug (int)
    • Default: 0
    • Debugging level of the underlying library to get verbose output.
Example
driver
(
  name "gbxgarminacfr"
  provides ["gps:0"]
  port "/dev/ttyS0"
)
Author
Geoffrey Biggs