Wiki source code of Add GPS Support in LG308

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1 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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3 Below are the steps:
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5 Open the box and connect GPS antenna to GNSS port of EC25
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7 [[~[~[image:https://wiki.dragino.com/images/thumb/1/19/LG308_GPS_1.png/600px-LG308_GPS_1.png~|~|height="359" width="600"~]~]>>url:https://wiki.dragino.com/index.php/File:LG308_GPS_1.png]]
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9 Connect GPS antenna
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12 modify the two files:
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14 /etc/chatscripts/3g.chat
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16 {{{ABORT BUSY
17 ABORT 'NO CARRIER'
18 ABORT ERROR
19 REPORT CONNECT
20 TIMEOUT 10
21 "" "AT&F"
22 OK "ATE1"
23 OK "AT+QGPS=1" --> Add this line, so EC25 module GPS will be enable when dial up
24 OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","$USE_APN"'
25 SAY "Calling UMTS/GPRS"
26 TIMEOUT 30
27 OK "ATD$DIALNUMBER"
28 CONNECT ' '
29 }}}
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31 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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33 /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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35 {{{gen_gw_cfg() {
36 json_init
37 json_add_object gateway_conf
38 json_add_string "gateway_ID" "$gwid"
39 json_add_string "server_address" "$server"
40 json_add_int "serv_port_up" "$upp"
41 json_add_int "serv_port_down" "$dpp"
42 json_add_int "stat_interval" "$stat"
43 json_add_boolean "forward_crc_valid" 1
44 json_add_boolean "forward_crc_error" 0
45 json_add_string "gps_tty_path" "/dev/ttyUSB1" -----> Add this line so lora program knows to get the gps info from EC25
46 json_close_object
47 json_dump > /etc/lora/local_conf.json
48 }
49 }}}
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52 Reboot the device and run logread -f to verify if GPS already works.
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54 {{{Fri Mar 6 04:08:59 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ GPS serial port path is configured to "/dev/ttyUSB1"
55 Fri Mar 6 04:08:59 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ [main] TTY port /dev/ttyUSB1 open for GPS synchronization
56 Fri Mar 6 04:09:00 2020 cron.err crond[1689]: time disparity of 4301528 minutes detected
57 Fri Mar 6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ sockfd=4
58 Fri Mar 6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ sockfd=5
59 Fri Mar 6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ FPort Filter: 0
60 Fri Mar 6 04:09:00 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ DevAddrMask: 0x0
61 Fri Mar 6 04:09:34 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO: [jit] queue is empty
62 Fri Mar 6 04:09:34 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: STAT~ {"stat":{"time":"2020-03-06 04:09:34 UTC","lati":22.70627,"long":114.24277,"alti":58,"rxnb":0,"rxok":0,"rxfw":0,"ackr":0.0,"dwnb":0,"txnb":0}}
63 Fri Mar 6 04:09:35 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ [up] PUSH_ACK received in 293 ms
64 Fri Mar 6 04:09:35 2020 daemon.info lora_pkt_fwd[3016]: INFO~ [down] PULL_ACK received in 596 ms}}}