The 6th of April 2019 - some GPS modules might stop working after that date

[@gloplg]

Hi Pawel thank you for the heads up. I will be connecting all my models to Inav to check the gps on 7th April. Y2k was a bit of a fizzer hopefully this will be as well.

[@jtr918]

Thank you very much! No body have talk about that from what I know.

[@LordGryllwotth]

I have a fake M8N. So I will make a calendar notice to check. Also there is a lot of old GPS units on fisherboats !

[@MCsCreations]

Damn... That's a real bummer... 😕 I have a NAZA Lite here... Now I'm afraid. 😕 Anyway, thanks for the warning us! 😊

[@stevengwilliam8096]

This is actually the rollover on 6th/7th April is the 2nd week rollover. GPS Epoch was 5th Jan 1980 and the 1st rollover event was in August 1999. As 1024 weeks is 19.6 years, we are about to go through the 2nd week rollover. This will only affect GPS receivers older than circa 2014/2015 as these will use the old C/A Nav message 10 bit week count. Modern receivers will use the newer CNAV message and this as a 13 bit week number. In reality, most receivers if used for positioning will happily rollover OK even if their NMEA time output roll back to 1999. They will probably have to grab new ephemeris data at the rollover transition.

[@TJGermany]

Ehm, I don't think any device really uses CNAV already. CNAV is still marked pre-operational and uses a different frequency.

[@gezakopter1153]

I have several BN-220 and BN-880 modules. They are Ublox 8, will let you know if they went nuts after 6th of April. :)

[@EnglishTurbines]

Thanks for the Heads up Pawel.....April the 1st seems more appropriate though....lol.

[@Jasper_Vis92]

Thanks for the announcement. Haven't heard about it either.

[@MacChew008]

Isn't the "Roll over" on the 6th April 2019. (23:59:42 local time)?

[@palankaizs]

Hopefully we will have as many problem as we had with y2k

[@chrisleech1565]

Pawel, I was just going to install this Chinese knockoff of an M8N called a V.KEL has no battery back up for calendar. Not sure how that works..... But anyway I was wondering is there no way of testing its parameter with UBLOX proprietary software. What am I going to do with five or six DJI and Neo M6N with compass? Soldering in a replacement Ublox "engine" is very difficult. I know this by hard experience.

[@FPVUniversity]

I do not think you can test this condition

[@iknowlaa]

sell it off n get a new 1 after april..lol

[@jorgelbotelho8363]

Very good! Congratulations

[@javieruriel]

Where you from dude.

[@througheagleseye585]

Does it mean I'll have to go DJI again!? ;p

[@pedrofdmp]

Hopping nothing bad happens and we just get to see some silly videos of drones crashing :)

[@gezakopter1153]

BTW why not 1st of April? :D

[@fizzer914]

duuuuuuuuuude i thought this was a conspiracy video when it popped up. lmfaooooooooooo then i looked at the description!! lol

[@davidvaknin3801]

i'm Paweł Spychalski and you're gonna learn something today ...today...

[@Droning-ON]

Haha we spotted that too!! 😂😂

[@exexgr6897]

Not fun. i have 5 GPS units. I hope they all work after 6th April. Can you please make a list of GPS matching the news specification. Es wäre sehr net, wenn du uns hilfst die richtige zu finden. THX

[@FPVUniversity]

Such a list is not possible

[@iknowlaa]

yeah, list not needed. Just test each equipment after that date to c if it works or not. simple..

[@sklepa]

Paweł jor inglisz makes my ears bleed und kopfschmerzen, aber ich moge dich enyłej.

[@FPVUniversity]

not sure if it was a complimet or insult ;)

[@sklepa]

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