Hi Jason, thanks for your support as well. The One-Liner tests should be a 
great help. When I try your GPS one-liner verbatim, or set to 9600, the 
line feeds, but then just sits until I ctrl-C. What does this tell me?

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 1:45:24 PM UTC-7, Jason Kridner wrote:
>
> With my latest device tree patches, it should be UART by default without 
> any config-pin calls. 
>
> Most of these GPS devices are 4800 or 9600 baud by default. 
>
> I've created a page for one-liner tests for various modules: 
> https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-blue/wiki/One-Liner-Module-Tests 
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:52 PM Robert Nelson <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Timothy Litvin <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>> > Greetings from the steep learning curve.  I’m setting up my first 
>> Arduplane
>> > while learning Linux on my first AP (BBBlue) with my first GCS (Mission
>> > Planner) on Windows 10, for use in a custom vessel. Practically 
>> speaking,
>> > it's been a recipe for delayed gratification, uncomfortably akin to a 
>> monkey
>> > with a typewriter.
>> >
>> > I now have blue-arduplane running on the Bone (sudo
>> > /usr/bin/ardupilot/blue-arduplane -C udp:192.168.8.132:14550 -B 
>> /dev/ttyO5
>> > with telemetry reporting via wifi to my Windows 10 laptop, but no signal
>> > arrives from the GPS (booted, with flashing blue led). My GPS is a 
>> generic
>> > ublox neo-M8n (with compass), plugged into the GPS jst-sh (wired 
>> according
>> > to attached jpeg). Windows Device Manager reports ublox Virtual Com 
>> Port on
>> > COM5.
>> >
>> > I’m guessing the GPS needs to be further configured, i.e., I need to 
>> either
>> > download/install or create a new ublox-M8 configuration file. I've 
>> installed
>> > u-center to configure the GPS; u-center reports nothing.  That feed 
>> seems to
>> > imply/require a Passthrough connection in Mission Planner while running
>> > blue-arduplane) so, in the Flight Data screen, ctrl-F:
>> >
>> > It’s unclear whether the “MAVSerial pass” button is activated on click
>> > (doesn’t toggle color, just grays temporarily on rollover & click).
>> > u-center 8.25 doesn’t detect GPS on any port. Tried also creating a TCP
>> > connection in u-center through Network Connection, New, setting Address 
>> to
>> > tcp://localhost:500, set baud to 38400 (with and without AutoBaud) after
>> > which I get a Connection Error message.
>> >
>> > I then installed minicom on the Bone. When I run "dmesg | grep tty" I 
>> get:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > [    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyO0,115200n8
>> > root=UUID=1b96dc8c-4e92-4f4f-86de-36d769439063 ro rootfstype=ext4 
>> rootwait
>> > coherent_pool=1M net.ifnames=0 quiet cape_universal=enable
>> >
>> > [    0.002863] WARNING: Your 'console=ttyO0' has been replaced by 
>> 'ttyS0'
>> >
>> > [    2.492065] 44e09000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x44e09000 (irq = 158,
>> > base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
>> >
>> > [    2.505478] console [ttyS0] enabled
>> >
>> > [    2.506866] 48022000.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x48022000 (irq = 159,
>> > base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
>> >
>> > [    2.507975] 48024000.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x48024000 (irq = 160,
>> > base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
>> >
>> > [    2.509094] 481a6000.serial: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x481a6000 (irq = 161,
>> > base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
>> >
>> > [    2.510109] 481a8000.serial: ttyS4 at MMIO 0x481a8000 (irq = 162,
>> > base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
>> >
>> > [    2.511416] 481aa000.serial: ttyS5 at MMIO 0x481aa000 (irq = 163,
>> > base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
>> >
>> > [    9.819121] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
>> >
>> > [    9.831852] systemd[1]: Created slice system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > In Minicom I took a blind whack at setting Serial Port ttyS5 (and 
>> ttyS4) to
>> > 38400 Baud, 8N1 and Hardware control on/off, to my chagrin, no effect 
>> on the
>> > non-existent GPS connection. U-center still can't connect, so I can't
>> > configure the GPS...if that's what i need to do. Minicom reports the 
>> port's
>> > values have been changed, but  "dmesg | grep tty" reports the same as 
>> above,
>> > unchanged. I've also tried using the -B /dev/ttyS5 alternative for GPS 
>> when
>> > starting blue-arduplane. At this point it occurs to me that I could've
>> > steered wrong repeatedly, or just missed a step.
>> >
>> > If you know what you’re doing, by now it’s probably clear that I don’t.
>> > Helpful hints anyone?
>>
>> so you need to connect the pin to the peripheral:
>>
>> #uart 2 (gps)
>> config-pin P9.21 uart
>> config-pin P9.22 uart
>>
>> #uart 1
>> config-pin P9.24 uart
>> config-pin P9.26 uart
>>
>> PS, i just pushed an arduplane deb update today too..
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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>> Robert Nelson
>> https://rcn-ee.com/
>>
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