- Qt 5.15
- Qt Positioning
- Qt Positioning Serial NMEA plugin
- Qt 5.15.15 Reference Documentation

# Qt Positioning Serial NMEA plugin

## Overview

Included with Qt Location is a position plugin which parses NMEA sentences streamed over a serial port into position updates.

This plugin can be loaded by using the provider name serialnmea.

## Parameters

The following table lists parameters that can be passed to the serialnmea plugin.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
serialnmea.serial_port | The serial port where the NMEA stream is coming.

## Parameter Usage Example

The following examples show how to create a serialnmea PositionSource listening on a specific serial port

### QML

     PositionSource {
         name: "serialnmea"
         PluginParameter { name: "serialnmea.serial_port"; value: "tnt1" }
     }

### C++

     QVariantMap params;
     params["serialnmea.serial_port"] = "tnt1";
     QGeoPositionInfoSource *positionSource = QGeoPositionInfoSource::createSource("serialnmea", params, this);