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Are there even any chipsets out there that can receive IRNSS? I don't think the very common u-blox ones can. It seems like only some Qualcom 4G/5G chipsets supp
by dark-star 4y ago
Are there even any chipsets out there that can receive IRNSS? I don't think the very common u-blox ones can. It seems like only some Qualcom 4G/5G chipsets support it, which are probably difficult to get on a hacker-friendly add-on board, especially outside India?
- captn3m0 4y agoYeah, probably something to reconsider by end of this year. There’s a planned mandate for smartphones to support this: https://www.gpsworld.com/india-mandates-navic-support-for-smartphones-no-timeline-yet/ https://www.gpsworld.com/india-mandates-navic-support-for-sm....
- edb_123 4y agoSeptentrio, Hemisphere and Trimble have boards capable of receiving NavIC/IRNSS, at least. The cheapest module would probably be Septentrio Mosaic-X5.
- dark-star 4y agoDigikey lists that module (which is not much different in size/shape from the U-Blox modules) at 675$, so I'm not sure this puts it in the cheap/hobbyist range ...