PPS output on the Reach

Reach Module / M+ / M2 Hardware integration
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Hi,

I’m looking for a way to get PPS output from the reach. Is there a way to send it on one of the output pins?

Thank you in advance for helping.

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Hi Victor,

At the moment we do not support PPS out.

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Do you know if there is any plans to support it in the future?

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Hardware support is there, so it is a matter of priority for devs. There is plenty on their plate right now :slight_smile:

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What about the time mark pin from the uBlox? Doesn’t that give the option of getting a 1PPS out. From what I gather from the documentation (https://www2.u-blox.com/images/downloads/Product_Docs/u-bloxM8_ReceiverDescriptionProtocolSpec_(UBX-13003221)_Public.pdf, pp 172/282), it should be a matter of sending the CFG-TP5 message while initializing the device.

Can you maybe provide som information on how the reach configures the uBlox, so - if your developers don’t have time - the community might do it themselves?

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Those are different pins, timepulse and timemark. Timepulse is routed to Edison GPIO128, you can setup an interrupt that will move one of GPIOs on the DF13 headers accordingly.

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What do you mean by this?

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It means you can write program to read Edison’s GPIO128 state and mirror it on one of the pins in the DF13 connector.

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Did the devs have time to implement the PPS output to edison GPIO128?

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Hello!
What about PPS pulse now?
Is there any solution, or need to write program, as you wrote?

Thanks!

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Hello,

I am very interested in having PPS pulse output too, any idea when this will make it to the top of the priority list of things this team will do?

Thanks!

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Unfortunately, can’t say we will have time to do this in the foreseeable future. I can offer some guidance,if you decide to do this yourself, though.

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So, would it be possible to integrate a PPS pulse by ourselve? How would this be achieved? Should we modify and recompile the firmware? I need PPS pulse in order to feed the RTK position to a Lidar system.

Regards

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Reach comes with all you need for development. Compiler, debugger, build tools.

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If PPS was easily available we could use them chip in our GPR systems. We develop and sell GPRs (ground penetrating radars).

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Hello!
I’m trying to get PPS events but there is no interrupts at GPIO128 pin. At the same time I see interrupts at GPIO13 with 1000ms interval. Maybe GPIO13 is routed to uBlox timepulse?

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I’m sorry, my fault. GPIO128 MRAA number is 13, so these interrupts are pps.

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There certainly is some confusion due to different GPIO numbering systems. Good luck.