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Sparkfun weatherboard on a mega and gps

By jetgen
-  Sun May 28, 2017 8:33 pm #195003
I have successfully gotten everything working on my weatherboard( 12081) mounted to a mega 2560 v3 except the GPS.
I'm using the example Weather_station_with_gps. I will also be implementing with the new version of the weatherboard when I receive it.

I have tested the weatherboard GPS function on an redboard and it does work. I then compiled the test program and loaded on the mega and it does not see the GPS. The RX is set to 4 and the TX is 5.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks!

Jenni

Re: Sparkfun weatherboard on a mega and gps

By Valen
-  Sat Jun 03, 2017 8:15 am #195059
The mega does not have a serial port on pins 4 and 5. So you'd have to jumper wire those to one of the other hardwire serial ports. Or alter the code to use a software serial library on those pins.
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