topic ArcGIS .NET Runtime and GPS receiver, how to connect in .NET Maps SDK Questions

ArcGIS .NET Runtime and GPS receiver, how to connect

JohnFix1 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:57:08 GMT

I am working on a Windows 10 app using the ArcGIS .NET SDK runtime and I am trying to read the location from my GPS receiver. The GPS receiver is "pushing" data to a COM port.

I can only seem to get location data from the Windows Location Service, but I want to be able to read from a connected GPS receiver. Of course I won't always know which COM port the receiver is attached to, or the baud rate. I do know the data will be in the NMEA format.

How do I get .NET runtime to find the COM port, set the correct baud rate, and read the GPS receiver data so I can see if on a map? Yes, I see I can setup my own data source....but I'm asking how do I connect to the GPS data feed?

I can't be the first trying to use a GPS receiver with runtime, yet I can't find anything on GeoNet. Of course is doesn't help that searching for GPS returns all kinds of results for GP (GeoProcessing).

Thanks.

John

Re: ArcGIS .NET Runtime and GPS receiver, how to connect

JoeHershman — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:35:28 GMT

There was a similar thread a few days ago, https://community.esri.com/thread/240359-how-to-get-satellite-info-net-wpf-1005

I would check out GitHub - dotMorten/NmeaParser: Library for handling NMEA message in Windows Desktop, Store, Phone, Universal, and Xamari… by Morten Nielsen‌

Re: ArcGIS .NET Runtime and GPS receiver, how to connect

JohnFix1 — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:24:13 GMT

Thanks Joe, we'll take a look. But this looks like exactly what we are dealing with and what we need.