pi-top[4] GPS via Serial

Displaying GPS data from an Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout V3 to the pi-top[4]

Hardware Requirements

• pi-top[4] or pi-top[4] DIY kit
• Raspberry Pi 4 (only if using DIY kit)
• Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout v3
• Some jumper wires

Please note that this will work with other GPS devices, however, not all NMEA sentences may be available. by default the Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout v3 does not show GPZDA by default, which is dame and date sentence but can be enabled with doing a serial write

Software

• pip3 install pySerial
• sudo apt install libatlas-base-dev -y (if using virtualenv)

Usefull links

• MTK NMEA Packet User Manual - perfect to learn how to configure the GPS device
• GPS - NMEA sentence information - perfect to learn what the NMEA sentence data actually is
• pi-top[4] SDK Documentation - helpful for info to use the pi-top features