Qt Positioning Serial NMEA plugin

Overview

Included with Qt Location is a position plugin which parses NMEA sentences streamed over a serial port into position updates.

This plugin can be loaded by using the provider name serialnmea.

Parameters

The following table lists parameters that can be passed to the serialnmea plugin.

Parameter	Description
serialnmea.serial_port	The serial port where the NMEA stream is coming.

Parameter Usage Example

The following examples show how to create a serialnmea PositionSource listening on a specific serial port

QML

PositionSource {
    name: "serialnmea"
    PluginParameter { name: "serialnmea.serial_port"; value: "tnt1" }
}

C++

QVariantMap params;
params["serialnmea.serial_port"] = "tnt1";
QGeoPositionInfoSource *positionSource = QGeoPositionInfoSource::createSource("serialnmea", params, this);