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Tips and questions relating to the GPS modules from SFE
By dongustavo
#139436
Hello,

the eval board for venus (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10921) has the venus flash version.

The question is: does it save the settings (I mean update rate, nmea output sentences, baud rate, etc)?

I would like to program these paramenters one time only.

Bye,
Gustavo
By Matz
#139500
Hi Gustavo!
You can make it save the settings.
If you are using the GPS Viewer software to comunicate with the module and you send a binary message you can select either "update to SRAM" or "update to SRAM and flash". If you select the latter Venus will save the settings.
If you are configuring your venus manually via UART make sure that the attribs byte is set accordingly:
0x00 update to SRAM
0x01 update to SRAM and flash
For further clarification check the binary command set here: http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/dat ... 1.4.19.pdf

Hope this helps

Matz

P.s.: Next time search the forum first, you could have found the info you are looking for right here: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17278&p=81221&hili ... set#p81221