GlobalSat 05-BU353-W10 GPS GNSS Location Sensor, Windows 10 - Black

If you are looking for the correct GPS sensor to run a GPS app on a windows 10 PC, look no further. I decided to install a PC in my car to replace crap hardware available on the market utilizing android auto or apple carplay. One of the big things I needed was GPS navigation that could be integrated to an easy to use search interface.. Cortana is great for this. The roadblock was that my original globalsat BU-353S4 receiver used NMEA, which windows 10 does not understand (why this is, idk). You can use third party software in order to get it to work, but it's finnicky at best. With this GPS sensor, windows 10 understands it immediately, and apps all respond to it. No third party program needed. Also, the driver can be found at u-blox the description has a typo, so search 'u-blox gnss driver' in google and you should find it. I'm using Windows Maps now with no problem, and can use Cortana voice commands to navigate to new locations hands-free while driving.

Garbage, no drivers and no working drivers to be found. I went to all their sites and none of the drivers work for a Windows 10 Machine

Tried off and on over 2 days to get this to function on my new Surface Pro 7 - i7, never did. The driver and info was hard to find(u-blox gnss 2.40) After I did, I installed them - uninstalled them - reinstalled them from another site - a few times. To no avail. The product isn't listed on the GlobalSat site and couldn't find any support. Update: This seems to be an driver issue with Windows release 1903. Works fine on an old laptop running release 1809. So until they update the driver it won't work on the Surface.

The description implies that it only works on Windows 10. But it worked trivially for me using my own GPS software under Ubuntu and Raspbian Linux. It manifests as a ttyACM device with the USB vendor/product ID v1546p01A8 at a rate of 9600 bits/second and a default update frequency of 1Hz. It uses the Ublox 8 UBX-M8030 chipset which supports both the standard NMEA and the proprietary binary UBX protocol. The Ublox 8 is the most impressive GPS receiver of the sixteen I've tested with my own software. I'm amazed it's as inexpensive as it is.

Instructions that come with it do not work. Called GlobalSat for the correct link for the driver and it works like a charm.

for starters the shipping was very fast but, the low stars is not due to that. the problem is i been messing with this all day and cant get it working. i was under the impression the drivers would be on a disk inside but no there was nothing. so i figured no big deal off to the manufactures website i go. i downloaded what looked like the manufactures latest driver, wrong. finally i contacted support and got a link to the correct driver. now im getting a signal but no software i try will work. i started with MS Maps windows OS 10 Version 1804 and all i get is no GPS signal. tried 50 free programs from online finally installing an old copy of streets and maps 2013 but no, its recognizes the signal but cant read it. this things to cheap to bother returning i guess it will go into my crap collection in the closet, maybe ill find a use for it one day. if you choose to buy this, google is very limited on any kind of support or help for this thing.

Trying to use this item from my computer for boat navigation, didn’t give the right web address in order to download component information so that it will run on your computer. Wrote the company an email for correct web address, but no response. Went through all the questions and answers on their Amazon for this product, tried to use other web addresses to download correct information for unlock download, unfortunately could not get what I needed to get this unit to work. My suggestion do NOT buy this product. Although I did contact their customer service on Amazon and they were very nice and polite and tried to send me to the right where the dresses but even they could not download it.

Worked great for me as a way to feed GPS data to Airmagnet a wifi survey tool. I've found it can be prone to slight errors in areas of heavy tree cover but was expected.