Unicore UM980 support

[dosas]

Hello,

is there support or planned support for the unicore UM980?

Thanks

[semuadmin]

In terms of configuring Unicore receivers, I don't have a UM980 to hand (perhaps some kind soul from SparkFun or Ardusimple would care to donate one?), but if I understand correctly the Unicore receivers are configurable via TTY (ASCII text) commands, so it should be supported already via PyGPSClient's TTY Commands panel.

You can either enter the commands manually (with or without an XOR checksum), or save them as presets in the json configuration file and then select them from the drop-down list.

e.g. to configure the baud rate on COM1...

https://www.ardusimple.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Unicore-Reference-Commands-Manual-For-N4-High-Precision-Products_V2_EN_R1.4-1.pdf

Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Support for UM980 NMEA Secondary Antenna and Attitude messages (e.g. GPGLLH, HPD) in PyGPSClient will require an update to the pynmeagps library. This is currently on the backlog and I hope to introduce this in the next version over the next month or so.

Support for UM980 binary messages (e.g. PVTSLN) in PyGPSClient will require a new Python parser library, provisionally "pyunigps", as well as an update to the GNSSReader class in pygnssutils. I'll look into this as and when I have the time and motivation.

[semuadmin]

Support for UM980 NMEA Extended messages (e.g. GPGLLH) in PyGPSClient will require an update to the pynmeagps library.

Now available in pynmeagps v1.1.0

[dosas]

Thanks, that was amazingly fast I will try as soon as I receive my UM980.