NMEA 0183

The GNSS Compass supports outputting the version 4.10 compliant NMEA 0183 messages over both Serial and Ethernet connections.

For the serial variant (GC2-SER):

  • Serial data is output on the Auxiliary serial port.

  • Each message can be enabled or disabled and output rates are configurable.

For the Ethernet variant (GC2-POE):

  • Ethernet messages are enabled by default, however can be selectively disabled.

  • NMEA 0183 broadcast packets are sent via multicast to IP address 239.192.0.4.

  • These are sent whenever an Ethernet connection is established and cannot be disabled.

The minimum rate is 1 Hz, except for GPHBT & TSS1 whereby the minimum is as indicated in the table NMEA 0183 output messages supported.

The maximum output rate for any message is 50 Hz.

The NMEA 0183 messages are:

Sentence

Serial Default

Ethernet Default

Description

$GPGGA

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Time, latitude, longitude, height and HDOP

$GPGLL

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Latitude and longitude

$GPGNS

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Time, latitude, longitude, height and HDOP

$GPGSA

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

GNSS DOP and satellites used in solution

$GPGSV

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

GNSS satellites in view

$GPHBT

Disabled

Enabled (0.167 Hz) 60 seconds

Heartbeat supervision sentence

$GPHDG

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Magnetic deviation and variation

$GPHDM

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Magnetic Heading

$GPHDT

Enabled (8 Hz)

Enabled (8 Hz)

True heading

$GPHEV

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Heave

$GPRMC

Enabled (8 Hz)

Enabled (8 Hz)

Time, date, latitude, longitude and 2D velocity

$GPROT

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Rate of turn

$GPVBW

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Dual ground/water speed

$GPVLW

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Dual ground/water distance

$GPVTG

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Course over ground and ground speed

$GPZDA

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Time and date

$PASHR

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Time, orientation and orientation error

$TSS1

Disabled

Disabled

Heave, pitch and roll

$PFEC,GPatt

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Attitude and heading

$PFEC,GPhve

Disabled

Enabled (1 Hz)

Heave

NMEA 0183 output messages supported