# GPS input in BlueOS

**URL:** <https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/gps-input-in-blueos/13909>\
**Category:** BlueOS\
**Created:** [March 16, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/gps-input-in-blueos/13909 "2023-03-16T13:13:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gcelec](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.bluerobotics.com/gcelec/32/2038_2.png) [@gcelec](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/gcelec)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/gps-input-in-blueos/13909/1 "2023-03-16T13:13:43Z")

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A couple of years ago I posted in the [Dive Log](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/2-000-ft-tunnel-inspection-bluerov2/10423) about how I convert meters and feet from my line counter to Lat and Long in a GPGGA NMEA string and send it to the TCP port for as a GPS input.  
I’m trying to do it again, but this time I have BlueOS 1.1.0-beta.16 and I can’t get it to work.

I created New NMEA socket:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/bluerobotics/original/2X/1/1d47979b3ea9b05460278399a5a978a8258b73ce.png)

NMEA Router Connects to the TCP port:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/bluerobotics/original/2X/8/85f57a0d635b59b16714159835f3d7fe682b5212.png)

I can see the Feet and Meter Readings in the Mavlink Inspector - 220 GPS\_INPUT, but they aren’t displaying in QGroundControl

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/bluerobotics/original/2X/4/44bca39fb7ec9b264f509d5b06aef96d2bc4c06f.png)

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**Author:** ![EliotBR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.bluerobotics.com/eliotbr/32/6937_2.png) [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/gps-input-in-blueos/13909/2 "2023-03-23T11:48:30Z")

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Hi @gcelec, apologies for the delay on getting to this.

I asked about this internally when I saw the post, but haven’t yet had a response.

I’m not certain what’s causing the issue, but given QGC is seemingly receiving the messages but not displaying the values that seems likely to be a QGC issue rather than a BlueOS one. Can you try installing [QGC \>= 4.2.5](https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/releases)? I’m not certain if it will help, but it did include some GPS display related changes, so 🤞

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**Author:** ![gcelec](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.bluerobotics.com/gcelec/32/2038_2.png) [@gcelec](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/gcelec)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/gps-input-in-blueos/13909/3 "2023-03-23T12:51:46Z")

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Hi @EliotBR , No problems about the delay - My workaround was to go old school by recording my screen on a DVR via an overlay box.  
I don’t have time to set up the line counter via GPS so I’ll leave this to rest and I’m guessing it will be resolved if and when I have another go at it. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help to get a resolution.