Re: GPS not updating Alpha 5 Clock-Solved!

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Windell Oskay
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To the extent that you do have a lock, it is likely not actually drifting. That means that you are apparently having periods of a sizeable fraction of an hour when you do not have lock. We haven’t had this problem with our example running the code, so it’s likely not a firmware bug. 


The basic problem– and the reason that Alpha Clock Five does not come with the GPS module as a default option — is that it’s hard to guarantee a GPS lock, especially indoors. You might consider moving it elsewhere or adding an external antenna to the GPS module.