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SlashDevin / NeoGPS

NMEA and ublox GPS parser for Arduino, configurable to use as few as 10 bytes of RAM
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Example of a sketch with local configuration #28

Closed andrzejtokarski closed 7 years ago

andrzejtokarski commented 7 years ago

Is it possible to configure the library without editing files downloaded by library manager? Is this library even usable with Arduino IDE?

SlashDevin commented 7 years ago

Is it possible to configure the library without editing files downloaded by library manager?

No. The Arduino environment does not allow local includes to override Library includes. I really wish it would, because that's what I'm used to, too.

You can either

Old versions of NeoGPS required a copy in each sketch directory, not in the Libraries directory. This also allowed different configs for each sketch. But the current NeoGPS distribution is structured according to the Library Manager rules.

Is this library even usable with Arduino IDE?

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Of course it is usable with the Arduino IDE. Are you having trouble using the library, when installed from the Library Manager?

Make sure you don't have two copies of NeoGPS files (one in Libraries/NeoGPS and one in your sketch directory). This will cause strange errors, in either the build (compile or link) or the execution (crash, freeze, no data, weird data, etc.).

andrzejtokarski commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the answer :) I see now that I'm having more issues with Arduino IDE then any of the code itself.

It's a whole another question but do you know any reasons why the program would stop after getting a fix once ?

andrzejtokarski commented 7 years ago

I followed your instructions and copied the library src to the sketch directory. I'm reopening the issue because the compiler is stopping on:

sketch\src\ublox\ubxGPS.cpp:1:25: fatal error: NMEAGPS_cfg.h: No such file or directory

NMEAGPS_cfg.h is present in the root sketch directory (as other files).

When installed using the manager, configs in sketch and included:

#include "GPSfix_cfg.h"
#include "NMEAGPS_cfg.h"
#include <NMEAGPS.h>

It seems to work OK.

SlashDevin commented 7 years ago

You do not need 3 includes in you sketch. Just include "NMEAGPS.h".

Did you delete the Libraries\NeoGPS directory? I haven't tried this directory structure for a while.

Unless you have multiple sketches with different configs, I would suggest leaving it in Libraries\NeoGPS directory.

andrzejtokarski commented 7 years ago

The issue with this approach is that it's hard to track changes with Git when they are spread this way. Thank you for your time :)