[FOSS-GPS] ublox M8P

anthony wooldridge arwooldridge at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 4 03:12:05 PST 2016


That's the hope, but it is only two GNSS capable as proposed. Hopefully 
it could do GPS plus Galileo in future, but they may be some limitations 
in functionality due to the extra firmware size and computing load of 
the RTK function.

On 03/03/2016 19:11, Jared Bench wrote:
> Ublox just announced a firmware update for the M8N that includes 
> support for Galileo.  It's likely this will extend to the M8P.
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:19 AM, anthony wooldridge 
> <arwooldridge at googlemail.com <mailto:arwooldridge at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Interesting device ( the NS-HP) , but GPS only I think.
>     Satellite numbers often go below threshold, or optimum geometry,
>     for RTK when using GPS only.
>     Then you get a big jump reverting to single. So not good if you
>     need 100% availability.
>     Glonass doesn't help initial lockon AFAIK ( if integer ambiguity
>     is switched off, at least in RTKlib) but might help hold an RTK
>     solution once found.
>     It would depend how the M8P is configured for this.
>     M8P initial product data says no support for Galileo, but maybe
>     that could change?
>
>
>     On 02/03/2016 23:22, RickHwang wrote:
>
>         There is a $50 board with integrated RTK solution, larger size
>         than ublox M8P
>         though.
>
>         https://twitter.com/NavSpark/status/705032188320813056
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