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A global satellite tracker utilising the SparkFun Artemis module, Iridium 9603N satellite transceiver and u-blox ZOE-M8Q GNSS
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GNSS and iridium modem at the same time #1

Closed eried closed 3 years ago

eried commented 3 years ago

If I cannot have both on without damaging the board (?):

Is it ok to be constantly switching them (i.e. every 5 minutes check the position) just to be always connected to receive Ring alerts? Has anyone tried this? (do Ring alerts actually repeat? so it is not that crucial to be offline for a while?)

PaulZC commented 3 years ago

Hi Erwin (@eried), You cannot have both GNSS and Iridium on at the same time as the antenna switch could be damaged. Iridium uses 5V and GNSS uses 3.3V. They could be connected through the antenna switch. Please do not try to enable both at the same time. You will receive two ring alerts from Iridium, a few seconds apart, when there is a new message to be downloaded. But only two. They do not repeat again. Please see Example11 for more details. https://github.com/sparkfunX/Artemis_Global_Tracker/tree/master/Software/examples I am closing this issue. If you need more help or suggestions, please ask in the SparkX Forum: https://forum.sparkfun.com/viewforum.php?f=123 Best wishes, Paul