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I'm having trouble getting my gps shield to work with my arduino

tlucas756

Hello everyone!

So this week i got a Neo-6M GPS shield in the mail, because I need it for a school project. However I'm a newbie when it comes to arduino programming, so I grabbed some code on the internet that said it'd function with this module.

But bad luck; I can't get this gps module to work and display my location, instead it gives me a bunch of characters on the serial monitor that I can't understand...

Could it be a problem with the program? Or maybe the antenna, or the GPS shield itself?

Could you give me some advice to test out?

Thank you!

 

Here's the page I grabbed the code from: Tutorial to Communicate Neo-6M GPS to Arduino : 7 Steps (with Pictures)   And some pictures of my hardware:imageimageimageimage

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  • Hello,

     

    Looking at your images I see your serial output is garbled and it shows at the bottom you have your baud rate set to 9600. If you read the tutorial it says the module has a default baud rate of 38400. I suggest the first thing you do it make sure your serial console settings are correct so as well as setting the baud rate to 38400 you may also need to look at what parity and stop bit settings are required too. First try with just changing the baud rate and if it's still garbled then look at the other settings.

     

    Actually I just read the article properly, the above is not right. It does look like a baud rate configuration issue somewhere but I it might not be in your connection to the Arduino for the serial monitor....

     

    Best Regards,


    Rachael

  • in reply to rachaelp

    Hello rachael, so I messed with the baud rates and found that it starts showing something at 115200 baud.

     

    But the gps signal doesn't seem to work; for the record in the code it mentions London so that's probably what the gps is trying to get, but doesn't receive.

     

    How could I change the location to my country (Portugal) without ruining the progress I've made?image

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  • in reply to rachaelp

    Hello rachael, so I messed with the baud rates and found that it starts showing something at 115200 baud.

     

    But the gps signal doesn't seem to work; for the record in the code it mentions London so that's probably what the gps is trying to get, but doesn't receive.

     

    How could I change the location to my country (Portugal) without ruining the progress I've made?image

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