I2C and GPS

Benjamin Deering ben_deering at swissmail.org
Thu Nov 24 12:44:22 CET 2011


With the i2c devices removed, I get TTFF of around 1 minute in 
shr-core.  It sounds like putting ferrite beads on SDA and SCL might 
help reduce EMI, so I will try that when I get a chance.

Ben

On 11/23/2011 05:06 PM, dmatthews.org wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:20:16 -0500
> Benjamin Deering<ben_deering at swissmail.org>  wrote:
>
> Hi Ben
>
> Not sure this is relevent to you, but I now have the fastest GPS fix I've ever had on the freerunner.
>
> QTMoko v35 and I put this in /etc/default/gpsd:-
>
> START_DAEMON="true"
> GPSD_OPTIONS=""
> DEVICES="/dev/ttySAC1"
> USBAUTO="false"
> GPSD_SOCKET="/var/run/gpsd.sock"
>
> Before doing this it was pretty poor - worse than earlier versions of qtmoko and much worse than every SHR I've tried. On a reasonably clear day I now reliably get a fix in under a minute, sometimes within a few seconds.
>
> The only other varying factor (doubtful relevence) is that I got pissed with QTMoko and to a lesser extent SHR foobarring the SD card, so I'm now running from the card instead of NAND and everything is pretty good




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