Ingo Lohs
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A cheap and accurate clock based on GPS

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A cheap and accurate clock based on GPS

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
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RGB Backlight LCD - 16x2
Adafruit RGB Backlight LCD - 16x2
in my case an nobrand LCD 20x4 Display mit I2C Adapter for easy connectivity
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Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
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Jumper wires (generic)
Jumper wires (generic)
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GPS receiver (generic)
GY-GPS6Mv2 with ublox NEO-6M
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Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

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Code

GPS_SoftwareSerial_Parsing_ilo

C/C++
Adafruits Example adjusted a little
// Test code for Adafruit GPS modules using MTK3329/MTK3339 driver
//
// This code shows how to listen to the GPS module in an interrupt
// which allows the program to have more 'freedom' - just parse
// when a new NMEA sentence is available! Then access data when
// desired.
//
// Tested and works great with the Adafruit Ultimate GPS module
// using MTK33x9 chipset
//    ------> http://www.adafruit.com/products/746
// Pick one up today at the Adafruit electronics shop
// and help support open source hardware & software! -ada

// modified 01.02.2020 - Ingo Lohs
// GPRMC & GPGGA decoder: https://rl.se/gprmc

#include <Wire.h> 
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(0x3F,20,4);  // set the LCD address to 0x27 for a 16 chars and 2 line display > 0x3F in my case for a 2004 lcd display

#include <Adafruit_GPS.h>
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

// Connect the GPS Power pin to 5V
// Connect the GPS Ground pin to ground
// Connect the GPS TX (transmit) pin to Digital 8
// Connect the GPS RX (receive) pin to Digital 7

// you can change the pin numbers to match your wiring:
SoftwareSerial mySerial(8, 7);
Adafruit_GPS GPS(&mySerial);

// Set GPSECHO to 'false' to turn off echoing the GPS data to the Serial console
// Set to 'true' if you want to debug and listen to the raw GPS sentences
#define GPSECHO  true

int timezone = +1; // Europe/Berlin (UTC +0100) > NMEA is UTC oriented

void setup()
{
  lcd.init();                      
  lcd.backlight();

  // connect at 115200 so we can read the GPS fast enough and echo without dropping chars
  // also spit it out
  Serial.begin(115200);
  delay(5000);
  Serial.println("Adafruit GPS library basic test!");

  // 9600 NMEA is the default baud rate for Adafruit MTK GPS's- some use 4800
  GPS.begin(9600); // > in my case I use UBLOX 6M: GY-GPS6Mv2

  // uncomment this line to turn on RMC (recommended minimum) and GGA (fix data) including altitude
  GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_RMCGGA);
  // uncomment this line to turn on only the "minimum recommended" data
  //GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_RMCONLY);
  // For parsing data, we don't suggest using anything but either RMC only or RMC+GGA since
  // the parser doesn't care about other sentences at this time

  // Set the update rate
  GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_UPDATE_1HZ);   // 1 Hz update rate
  // For the parsing code to work nicely and have time to sort thru the data, and
  // print it out we don't suggest using anything higher than 1 Hz

  // Request updates on antenna status, comment out to keep quiet
  GPS.sendCommand(PGCMD_ANTENNA);

  delay(1000);
  // Ask for firmware version
  mySerial.println(PMTK_Q_RELEASE);
}

uint32_t timer = millis();
void loop()                     // run over and over again
{
  char c = GPS.read();
  // if you want to debug, this is a good time to do it!
  if ((c) && (GPSECHO))
    Serial.write(c);

  // if a sentence is received, we can check the checksum, parse it...
  if (GPS.newNMEAreceived()) {
    // a tricky thing here is if we print the NMEA sentence, or data
    // we end up not listening and catching other sentences!
    // so be very wary if using OUTPUT_ALLDATA and trytng to print out data
    //Serial.println(GPS.lastNMEA());   // this also sets the newNMEAreceived() flag to false

    if (!GPS.parse(GPS.lastNMEA()))   // this also sets the newNMEAreceived() flag to false
      return;  // we can fail to parse a sentence in which case we should just wait for another
  }

  // if millis() or timer wraps around, we'll just reset it
  if (timer > millis())  timer = millis();

  // approximately every 2 seconds or so, print out the current stats
  if (millis() - timer > 2000) {
    timer = millis(); // reset the timer

    Serial.print("\nTime: ");
    if (GPS.hour < 10) { Serial.print('0'); }
    Serial.print(GPS.hour, DEC); Serial.print(':');
    if (GPS.minute < 10) { Serial.print('0'); }
    Serial.print(GPS.minute, DEC); Serial.print(':');
    if (GPS.seconds < 10) { Serial.print('0'); }
    Serial.print(GPS.seconds, DEC); Serial.print('.');
    if (GPS.milliseconds < 10) {
      Serial.print("00");
    } else if (GPS.milliseconds > 9 && GPS.milliseconds < 100) {
      Serial.print("0");
    }
    Serial.println(GPS.milliseconds);
    Serial.print("Date: ");
    Serial.print(GPS.day, DEC); Serial.print('/');
    Serial.print(GPS.month, DEC); Serial.print("/20");
    Serial.println(GPS.year, DEC);
    Serial.print("Fix: "); Serial.print((int)GPS.fix);
    Serial.print(" quality: "); Serial.println((int)GPS.fixquality);

    // output to LCD Display
    lcd.setCursor(5,0); // ,0 = first line
    int hour = (GPS.hour) + timezone; // format GPS.hour UTC to your individual timezone
        if (hour < 10) { lcd.print('0'); }
        lcd.print(hour, DEC); lcd.print(':');
        if (GPS.minute < 10) { lcd.print('0'); }
        lcd.print(GPS.minute, DEC); lcd.print(':');
        if (GPS.seconds < 10) { lcd.print('0'); }
        lcd.print(GPS.seconds, DEC); 

    // output to LCD Display
    lcd.setCursor(5,1); // ,0 = second line
        if (GPS.day < 10) { lcd.print('0'); }
        lcd.print(GPS.day, DEC); lcd.print('.');
        if (GPS.month < 10) { lcd.print('0'); }
        lcd.print(GPS.month, DEC); lcd.print('.'); 
        lcd.print(GPS.year, DEC);
    
    if (GPS.fix) { // do we have a satelite-connection? if yes, we have more values:
      Serial.print("Location: ");
      Serial.print(GPS.latitude, 4); Serial.print(GPS.lat);
      Serial.print(", ");
      Serial.print(GPS.longitude, 4); Serial.println(GPS.lon);

      Serial.print("Speed (knots): "); Serial.println(GPS.speed);
      Serial.print("Angle: "); Serial.println(GPS.angle);
      Serial.print("Altitude: "); Serial.println(GPS.altitude);
      Serial.print("Satellites: "); Serial.println((int)GPS.satellites);

      lcd.setCursor(0,2); // ,2 = third line
      // 1 Knoten = 1,852 Kilometer per hour
      float speed = (GPS.speed) * 1.852; // Switch from Speed/Knoten > Speed/km/h
          //lcd.print("Speed km/h: "); 
          lcd.print(speed);
      // Bewertung der Windstärke nach https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windgeschwindigkeit
      /* Beschreibung     - Geschwindigkeit in km/h
       * Windstille       - 0-1
       * leiser Zug       - 2-9 
       * leichte Brise    - 10-19
       * schwache Brise   - 20-28
       * mäßige Brise     - 29-37
       * frische Brise    - 38-46
       * starker Wind     - 47-56
       * stürmischer Wind - 57-74
       * Sturm            - 75-83
       * schwerer Sturm   - 84-102
       * Orkan            - > 103
       */

      if (speed <= 1)                          {lcd.print(" Windstille");}
      else if ((speed > 1)  && (speed <= 9))   {lcd.print(" leiser Zug");}
      else if ((speed > 9)  && (speed <= 46))  {lcd.print(" Brise");}
      else if ((speed > 46) && (speed <= 56))  {lcd.print(" starker Wind");}
      else if ((speed > 56) && (speed <= 74))  {lcd.print(" stuerm. Wind");}
      else if ((speed > 74) && (speed <= 83))  {lcd.print(" Sturm");}
      else if ((speed > 83) && (speed <= 102)) {lcd.print(" schwerer Sturm");}
      else if (speed > 102)                    {lcd.print(" Orkan");}
      else                                     {lcd.print(" ohne Bewertung");}
                
      lcd.setCursor(0,3); // ,3 = fourth line
          lcd.print("Hoehe: "); lcd.print(GPS.altitude);
    }
  }
}

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Ingo Lohs
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I am well over 50 years and come from the middle of Germany.
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