GPS Library

[thecapitalizt]

I'm doing a project for school, and I need a library that can read a NEMA stream coming from my GPS. Theres one on the NI site, but its for Labview 7.1 and I def. can't afford to upgrade to that.

[FLX]

Which Version do you use?

Can you add the link to the lib, please?

Maybe i can save it for version 7.

[thecapitalizt]

Its from NI. Here's the link to the page about it. I'm running 7.0 Student Edition on Windows XP

[thecapitalizt]

Did some quick poking around, looks like there isn't much reason why 7.0 wont support it. Anyone mind re-saving it for me as 7.0 compatible?

Worst-case, I set my GPS to output to text, and parse the output as a string.

[Mike Ashe]

You might want to search the Info-LabVIEW archives for both messages and code. Here is an old library for LV 3.0

http://www.info-labview.org/the-archives/vi/lv3.0/

On that page look for: gps_nmea.zip and gps_nmea.txt

Don't know how well written it is, but it might be a good start. If you improve it, remember to share back with both Info-LabVIEW and the LAVA forums here. Good luck.

[thecapitalizt]

hahahahaahahahah ohhh what a twist of fate this is. I go from it complaining that the one from NI is too new, to this one which is too old to convert. I however found a version on the site for labview 5 that does work. It looks a bit too complex for me (i'm just a high school student with almost no programming experience!). I might drop back to my fallback plan which is to switch my GPS to text mode, where it dumps out the time, lat and long only in ascii format, and from there have it parse the output. I'll probably have a bunch of questions since i'm starting from nowhere, but at least this is a start! Again, thanks a lot for the help.

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