ioBroker GPS (serial/USB) Adapter

This adapter reads GPS data from a serial or USB GPS device and makes it available in ioBroker.

This adapter uses Sentry libraries to automatically report exceptions and code errors to the developers. For more details and for information how to disable the error reporting see Sentry-Plugin Documentation! Sentry reporting is used starting with js-controller 3.0.

Getting Started

Insert a USB or serial GPS receiver into your ioBroker host system. Make sure the device is recognized by the operating system and note the assigned serial port (e.g. COM3 on Windows or /dev/ttyUSB0 on Linux). Go to the adapter configuration page and select the serial port and other parameters if necessary (default baud rate is usually 4800 or 9600). Save and start the adapter. After a while, GPS data should appear in the adapter's data points.

Tested devices

Normally, all devices that deliver NMEA data via serial or USB should work. Here are some devices that have been tested:

• GlobalSat BU-353N5 USB-GNSS-Receiver
• VK-162 G-Mouse USB GPS
• G72 G-Mouse USB

Changelog

1.0.0 (2026-05-29)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added possibility to select GPS device by name instead of path

0.0.4 (2025-12-03)

• (@GermanBluefox) Corrected issues for repo checker

0.0.3 (2025-12-01)

• (@GermanBluefox) Initial release

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2025-2026 bluefox [email protected]

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