I had a reply to my ticket now. It confirms that the removed cap is already missing from my board.

Does anyone have a photo or better description of where the blob is?

I think it may be an antenna issue. The external antenna has worked perfectly now and gives a good solid fix

Somewhat late to this but, for UK people i just found this.

http://www.connextech.co.uk/fgps35064-mr-10---internal-active-gps-antenna-100mm-rg174-mmcx-ra-1114-p.asp

which at £0.10 seems an absolute steal!

@Brad-Buskey That's what I am doing at the moment but i know that the GPS time is much more likely to be correct (Unless there is a way of setting the time from the GPS and then it won't matter)

It looks like i can compile and run fairly simple command line code at the moment. if i try and compile ogps (for example) then i get a number of errors which relate to additional libraries and header files and so on.

I have managed to get as far as

CLEAN SUCCESSFUL (total time: 60ms)
cd '/home/ianm/ogps'
/usr/bin/make -f Makefile
[ 33%] Building C object CMakeFiles/ugps.dir/main.c.o
[ 66%] Building C object CMakeFiles/ugps.dir/nmea.c.o
[100%] Linking C executable ugps
/home/ianm/toolchain/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl-1.1.15/bin/../lib/gcc/mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl/5.4.0/../../../../mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find -lubox
/home/ianm/toolchain/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl-1.1.15/bin/../lib/gcc/mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl/5.4.0/../../../../mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find -lubus
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
CMakeFiles/ugps.dir/build.make:120: recipe for target 'ugps' failed
make[2]: *** [ugps] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:67: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/ugps.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/ugps.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:127: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

has anyone else tried this yet? I think it is upset about libraries but I am not 100% on this as the whole linux things is a bit new to me at present.

Wow, I have actually managed to get this to work!

The biggest problem was getting the environment variables to remain valid over a reboot! Thanks very much for the pointers.

Hi, is there a guide somewhere to setting up a key based login on the omega2?

Hi,

Is anyone aware of a way to get ogps to output the gps time as well as the position data?
I was wanting to create a log file with the time from the gps rather than the system time.

Cheers.

I have this set up and working now but I was wanting to try and leave the heading info off and replace it with the time or something.

I can easily add the system time but I can't see a way (yet) of getting the gps time out. I am thinking at the moment that I will need to extract it from the NMEA data as the ogps calls don't supply it .

I had a reply to my ticket now. It confirms that the removed cap is already missing from my board.

Does anyone have a photo or better description of where the blob is?

Hi,

That is a picture of my board as it arrived from Onion. I have not made any modification at all.

The only thing I have done to it is to disconnect the antenna and connect an external active antenna. Once the external antenna is connected I get a solid fix with no issues. With the internal antenna... nothing.

Cheers.