Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
80 lines (61 loc) · 3.9 KB

GPS-NTP-server.md

File metadata and controls

80 lines (61 loc) · 3.9 KB

GPS-based NTP-server (Serial)

!!! failure "This feature is not included in precompiled binaries"

To use it you must compile your build. Add the following to user_config_override.h:

#ifndef USE_GPS
#define USE_GPS                                  // Add support for GPS and NTP Server for becoming Stratus 1 Time Source (+3k1 code, +132 bytes RAM)
  #define USE_FLOG                               // Add support for GPS logging in OTA's Flash (Experimental) (+2k9 code, +8 bytes RAM)
#endif

The foremost reason for the inclusion of this driver was to have a network unrelated time source, but besides this location data is provided too.

!!! info "Only u-blox-devices are supported"

The UBX binary protocol was chosen, because it is very memory efficient and all the needed data can be read without further parsing. The genereric NMEA-standard is NOT supported!

The driver is tested on a NEO-6m and a Beitian-220. Series 7 should work too. These modules are quite cheap, starting at about 3.50€ for the NEO-6m.

Features:

  • simplified NTP-Server
  • sets system time automatically and Settings.latitude and Settings.longitude via command
  • get position and time data
  • can log postion data with timestamp to flash with a small memory footprint of only 12 Bytes per record (!!EXPERIMENTAL!!)
  • constructs a GPX-file for download of this data
  • Web-UI and console command interface

Connecting the GPS-device to a Wemos D1 mini

Wemos D1 Mini GPS
VCC +3.3V Vin
GND GND
TX Rx
RX Tx

Tasmota Settings

In the Configuration -> Configure Module page, select the following for Wemos D1 mini:

  1. Module Type: 18 Generic
  2. TX GPIO1 Serial Out: GPX_TX
  3. RX GPIO3 Serial In: GPX_RX

No further installation steps needed. To get more debug information compile it with option "DEBUG_TASMOTA_SENSOR". The driver expects the device to be configured for 9600 baud, which is the default for most of these sensors. If necessary the configuration can be changed with the freely available "u-center"-software, which is windows-only but is reported to run quite well with WINE and can be confirmed to work with CrossOver on macOs Catalina.

NTP-Server

Simply start the server with 'sensor60 9'.

Flash-Log

This is highly experimental feature, which uses the OTA-partition to log position data.

!! ⚠️ FOR OBVIOUS REASONS THIS WILL SHORTEN THE LIFE OF THE FLASH MEMORY AND SHOULD BE USED WISELY ⚠️ !!

After the first recording, a download-link will appear in the web interface. By clicking on it, a GPX-file will be created on-the fly for download. All recorded data is lost after each OTA-update.

Commands

Command Description
sensor60 0 write to all available sectors, then restart and overwrite the older ones
sensor60 1 write to all available sectors, then restart and overwrite the older ones
sensor60 2 filter out horizontal drift noise
sensor60 3 turn off noise filter
sensor60 4 start recording, new data will be appended
sensor60 5 start new recording, old data will lost
sensor60 6 stop recording, download link will be visible in Web-UI
sensor60 7 send mqtt on new postion TELE -> consider to set TELE to a very high value
sensor60 8 only TELE message
sensor60 9 start NTP-Server
sensor60 10 deactivate NTP-Server
sensor60 11 force update of Tasmota-system-UTC with every new GPS-time-message
sensor60 12 do NOT update of Tasmota-system-UTC with every new GPS-time-message
sensor60 13 set latitude and longitude in settings
sensor60 14 open virtual serial port over TCP, usable for u-center
tcp://ip-address:port (default port 1234)
⚠️ misconfiguration via u-center can virtually brick the device ⚠️
sensor60 15 pause virtual serial port over TCP (connection stays active in the background)