GPS

I was looking to add GPS to my Raspberry Pi (specifically the Clockwork uConsole) and found this USB GPS Receiver with 2m Extension Cable on the PiHut website.

The unit has a USB interface, a 2 meter long cable, and the GPS receiver itself is magnetic and so can attach to lots of different surfaces. Plus, since it was sold on the PiHut website I was quite confident that it would be easy to get working with the Raspberry Pi. As it happens, it was easy to get working, I just needed to install a couple of extra tools to make sure it was producing the correct data.

In this article we'll look at what happens when you plug in the GPS receiver, and then look at a couple of packages you can use to verify that the GPS receiver is working correctly. This assumes that you are running the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS.