Luis Carlos Triviño Torres asked 7 years ago
Rui and Sara, good afternoon, one question, are you going to work the ESP32 with GPS ???. or where can I find information on this topic, Thanks
Sara Santos Staff answered 7 years ago
Hi Luis.
We don’t plan adding anything about that topic, at the moment.
We have a tutorial on how to use the neo-6M GPS module with the Arduino. The module communicates via serial port, so I think that you just have to read the messages available on the serial port.
Take a look at the first sketch example on the Arduino tutorial: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/guide-to-neo-6m-gps-module-with-arduino/
I think it should work on the ESP32, but I haven’t tested it.
This tutorial from sparkfun, may also be helpful: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/esp32-thing-motion-shield-hookup-guide/using-the-gps-port
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Sara 🙂
Fred.martin.h answered 6 years ago
Hi Sara
ESP32 and serial GPS work well as with an Arduino (same libraries)
But I have a hardware conflict with a TTGO ESP32 LoRa and its builtin OLED screen
the OLED screen uses Pin 16 as Reset Pin (Needs to be pulled down for 50 mS initially)
unfortunatly Pin 16 is by design the UART Serial2 Rx pin !!!
Too bad it’s the only Serial available to hookup a serial device like a Serial GPS
A sketch using the OLED only works fine
A sketch using the Serial GPS works fine too!!
Now both combined do crach the ESP32
Any trick to go around this issue ? can we reassign the Serial2 pins ?
Thanks for any tips
Fred Martin
Sara Santos Staff answered 6 years ago
Hi Fred.
You can reassign the serial pins.
Andreas SPies has a good video explaining how to do that.
I think that is exactly what you’re looking for.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Sara