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I've backed off trying to get the hat to work and gone back to basics and reimaged my pi with open plotter.  I've noticed on a fresh image that kplex does not work.  how do you configure kplex to work?  out of the box ( fresh install)  when I try to watch the nmea output it gives me timeout errors ( or should it do this with no traffic??)
I have had some problems with serial ports too. If I add a port and give it a name in one tab and try to reference it by that name in the next tab the named port isn't in the drop-down. Restarting kplex makes no difference. 0.17.0

Autoconfigure finds my nmea 0183 sources and I see the data scroll by, but when it adds what it found, the ports it adds timeout as you describe.

Using FTDI usb adapters, whether or not that matters.



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I should note I eventually got it working, I think I had to reboot the pi after each step of configuring the port or something.

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http://www.stripydog.com/kplex/configuration.html
NOTE FOR RASPBERRY PI 3: The Raspberry pi 3 has changed things around a bit: ttyAMA0 now refers to the serial port that is connected to the bluetooth. The old serial port is now called ttyS0.
https://elinux.org/RPi_Serial_Connection
Finally figured it out! during my testing I'd been leaving "screen" running so that I could see the output of the test NMEA data. I didn't realize that this blocked kplex from seeing the serial data!