Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W - GPS module compatibility?

[gregpdx]

I’ve been having a heckuva time trying to get a GT-U7 (NEO 6) GPS module working on physical pins 6 and 7 (UART1) on my Pico Plus 2W.

System: 3.4.0; MicroPython feature/psram-and-wifi, pico_plus2_rp2350 v0.0.11 on 2024-11-26

I’m wondering if it’s even compatible at this point. Have tried all possible baud rates that I know of, and the GPS module is pushing data, but it’s garbled garbage that’s being logged.

Example raw data:
[GPS Raw Bytes] b’2\x12:\x1a"\x1a\x05\t\x14%&&\x03\x05$\x07\x10\x07\x07\x01,071359.00,4’
[GPS Raw Bytes] b’515.38385,\x0e,12238.95238,\x17,2,06,1’

If I had any hair left, I’d pull it out. Maybe this module isn’t compatible? Or is there a limitation in the beta firmware preventing the comms?

Thx

[m1cr0py7h0n]

Have you tried this minimal setup?
Please note, that pins 4 and 5 are used for this… either change the code or your setup accordingly to make it work…

…this should produce at least some data output…

The full instruction can be found here…
Down below is a library given to parse the values from the GPS stream in a human readable format…