[APBeta] AP and GPS

[Paul Rodman]

On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Peter B wrote:

> Hi all, I took possession of a GPS receiver for my laptop yesterday  
> and would like to use this with Astroplanner.  I tested the unit  
> with the bundled software and also with EQMOD and it appears to be  
> working and communicating with the software.  When I tried it with  
> AP(V2b43) it was unclear whether AP was recognising the GPS unit and  
> if it did whether it had made any adjustment to either the location  
> or the time. Is there any way of testing that the GPS information is  
> being used by AP?

Currently, the only place the GPS can be accessed is in Edit- 
 >Resources->Sites, where you can retrieve the lat/long/GMT offset of  
a site from the connected GPS unit using the Get from GPS... button.  
The computer's clock (date/time) cannot be set from the GPS.

Paul R.

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