[Project] Display GPS Location on OLED

Brian Delicata

@Brad-Buskey Line 51 in showgps.py is missing a : at the end.

Brad Buskey

@Brian-Delicata said in [Project] Display GPS Location on OLED:

@Brad-Buskey Line 51 in showgps.py is missing a : at the end.

Got it, thanks.

Brad Buskey

I am working on my next project, which springboards off this one. Using the GPS to grab the current location and then pulling the weather from Weather Underground's API to display the current conditions. I am about 60% complete, most has been written, but now I need to go home and test.

I will post another project up once completed. And I will watch the syntax better this time.

Matthew Butch

Very cool- pretty similar to what I did. I added an animation while it was getting the fix. Just starts marching across the screen. I'll have to upload my script at some point.

FYI, you don't need to save a file with the data. You can call ubus directly:

gpsDataProcess = Popen(["ubus", "call", "gps", "info"], stdout=PIPE)
gpsDataJSON = gpsDataProcess.communicate()[0]
gpsDataProcess.stdout.close()
if ( gpsDataProcess.returncode == 0 ):
     # gps available
     gpsData = json.loads(gpsDataJSON)

Ian Marchant

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 .

Brad Buskey

@Ian-Marchant You could also just grab the system time instead.

Ian Marchant

@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)

Pi Phea

Thank you for this project. Nice and easy as a first project with Omega 2.

In my case there is a systematic error in the position returned by "ubus -S call gps info". Not a major one; just a few miles away but it is annoying for a device that should have an accuracy of a few meters

I looked at the source code on github and identified a bug in ugps when the NMEA data is converted.

I was wondering if you ever checked the accuracy of your results, for example by plotting the latitude and longitude on Google Map?

Did you find a fix?

Brad Buskey

@Pi-Phea Thanks for the comments. I have not found any kind of fix, nor would I be the one to likely find it - not a programmer, and no real training. This is really my first forray into this world.

When the name came up on the OLED for the local weather station, it was one that is close enough. (from a different project), but now I am curious to see where my Omega thinks it is.

Brad Buskey

@Matthew-Butch said in [Project] Display GPS Location on OLED:

Very cool- pretty similar to what I did. I added an animation while it was getting the fix. Just starts marching across the screen. I'll have to upload my script at some point.

FYI, you don't need to save a file with the data. You can call ubus directly:
gpsDataProcess = Popen(["ubus", "call", "gps", "info"], stdout=PIPE)
gpsDataJSON = gpsDataProcess.communicate()[0]
gpsDataProcess.stdout.close()
if ( gpsDataProcess.returncode == 0 ):
     # gps available
     gpsData = json.loads(gpsDataJSON)

I must be missing something here. I get the following when I run the .py file.

Initializing display
Writing '+-------------------+' to display
Writing '| Current GPS Info: |' to display
Writing '+---------+---------+' to display
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "showgps2.py", line 23, in <module>
gpsDataProcess = open(["ubus", "call", "gps", "info"], stdout=PIPE)
NameError: name 'PIPE' is not defined

Ryan G

@Brad-Buskey Did you happen to declare PIPE?

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

Matthew Butch

Yes sorry missed that part:

 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE