No data from Asset Tracker

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,
I’m a newbie and bought an Electron + ASSET3G260V2 Asset Tracker 3G Development Kit recently and don’t get accelerometer nor GPS data.

Device OS: 0.7.0

Library: ASSETTRACKER

Example: 1-gps-features.ino
int delayMinutes = 1; (for test purposes)
int accelThreshold = 9000;

$ particle serial monitor
Opening serial monitor for com port: "/dev/tty.usbmodem14311"
Serial monitor opened successfully:

Shook the kit, got no response after some time.

I then tried the 1-gps-features.ino example:

// loop() runs continuously
void loop() {
    // You'll need to run this every loop to capture the GPS output
    t.updateGPS();

    // if the current time - the last time we published is greater than your set delay...
    if (millis()-lastPublish > delayMinutes*60*1000) {
        // Remember when we published
        lastPublish = millis();

        String pubAccel = String::format("pubAccel %d,%d,%d", t.readX(), t.readY(), t.readZ());
        Serial.println(pubAccel);
        
        Particle.publish("A", pubAccel, 60, PRIVATE);
        Particle.publish("G", t.readLatLon(), 60, PRIVATE);

Events:

A pubAccel -258,-258,-258
G 0.000000,0.000000

Did I miss anything?

2

If you don’t have a GPS fix yet, you would get a 0,0 location. The best way to make sure the GPS is returning data is to run the 7_DataDump utility and capture the debug USB serial output. That will show, for example, if it can see some satellites but not enough.

If the debug log shows no satellites at all and you’re at least near a window (outside is even better), then there could be a hardware defect.

https://build.particle.io/libs/AssetTrackerRK/0.1.7/tab/example/7_DataDump.ino

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