I've been playing around with the idea of using an Arduino UNO to read information out of my Thunderbolt GPSDO via the serial port rather than using a PC (99% of the time anyway). The idea here is to get the time and some status info to drive an LED display and some LEDs to show the time adjusted to Central time, light up to 8 LEDs to represent the birds that are currently locked onto, and one LED for a Major alarm.
I just received the RS232 to TTL converter breakout board today and I can see received data over the hardware serial RX pin. Now I know that TB uses TSIP and not NMEA msgs, but is TSIP binary? I am getting this kind of thing at 9600: âV?éFõ.¦×¿ú'NÅ/Ã@pq:yÀ etc.... about once per second. I found this code on Google Code and the header file here https://code.google.com/p/arduino-trimble-thunderbolt-gpsdo/source/browse/trunk/libraries/Tsip/Tsip.h?r=31 implies to me that I should use this as a starting point as this sure ain't ASCII coming over the wire. Does this sound right? Thanks, Russ K0WFS _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
