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Wiki source code of Add GPS Support in LG308

Version 1.10 by Xiaoling on 2022/05/14 10:29
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2 It is possible to GPS support in LG308 EC25 version so device will add location info to uplink packet to LoRaWAN server.
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6 Below are the steps:
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10 Open the box and connect GPS antenna to GNSS port of EC25
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13 [[image:https://wiki.dragino.com/images/thumb/1/19/LG308_GPS_1.png/600px-LG308_GPS_1.png||height="359" width="600"]]
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15 Connect GPS antenna
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18 modify the two files:
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22 /etc/chatscripts/3g.chat
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27 ABORT   BUSY
28 ABORT   'NO CARRIER'
29 ABORT   ERROR
30 REPORT  CONNECT
31 TIMEOUT 10
32 ""      "AT&F"
33 OK      "ATE1"
34 (% style="color:red" %)OK  "AT+QGPS=1"   ~-~-> Add this line, so EC25 module GPS will be enable when dial up(%%)
35 (% style="color:black" %)OK      'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","$USE_APN"'
36 SAY     "Calling UMTS/GPRS"
37 TIMEOUT 30
38 OK      "ATD$DIALNUMBER"
39 CONNECT ' '
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43 (% style="color:red" %)Note: After above settings, the GPS will be enable when dial up, if user doesn't use Cellular for Internet access, above script won't execute, in this case, user can run "echo AT+QGPS=1 > /dev/ttyUSB2" to enable GPS
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47 /usr/bin/generate-config.sh, after configure this, in the web page, select any frequency band and save to make this take affect.
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53 gen_gw_cfg() {
54 json_init
55 json_add_object gateway_conf
56 json_add_string "gateway_ID" "$gwid"
57 json_add_string "server_address" "$server"
58 json_add_int "serv_port_up" "$upp"
59 json_add_int "serv_port_down" "$dpp"
60 json_add_int "stat_interval" "$stat"
61 json_add_boolean "forward_crc_valid" 1
62 json_add_boolean "forward_crc_error" 0
63 (% style="color:red" %)json_add_string "gps_tty_path" "/dev/ttyUSB1"   ~-~-~-~--> Add this line so lora program knows to get the gps info from EC25(%%)
64 (% style="color:black" %) json_close_object
65 json_dump  > /etc/lora/local_conf.json
66 }
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71 Reboot the device and run logread -f to verify if GPS already works.
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76 Fri Mar  6 04:08:59 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: ~(% style="color:red" %)INFO~~ GPS serial port path is configured to "/dev/ttyUSB1"
77 Fri Mar  6 04:08:59 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ [main] TTY port /dev/ttyUSB1 open for GPS synchronization
78 Fri Mar  6 04:09:00 2020 cron.err crond[1689]: time disparity of 4301528 minutes detected
79 Fri Mar  6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ sockfd=4
80 Fri Mar  6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ sockfd=5
81 Fri Mar  6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ FPort Filter: 0
82 Fri Mar  6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ DevAddrMask: 0x0
83 Fri Mar  6 04:09:34 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO: [jit] queue is empty
84 Fri Mar  6 04:09:34 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: STAT~~ {"stat":{"time":"2020-03-06 04:09:34 UTC",(% style="color:red" %)"lati":22.70627,"long":114.24277,"alti":58,(%%)
85 (% style="color:black" %)"rxnb":0,"rxok":0,"rxfw":0,"ackr":0.0,"dwnb":0,"txnb":0}}
86 Fri Mar  6 04:09:35 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ [up] PUSH_ACK received in 293 ms
87 Fri Mar  6 04:09:35 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~~ [down] PULL_ACK received in 596 ms
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