Pimoroni PA1010D GPS Breakout

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Hi All,

Problem: GPS signal data is all blank

Just ordered a Pimoroni PA1010D GPS Breakout. I’ve attached it to my Raspberry Pi4 and am able to detect it by running

sudo i2cdetect -y 1

 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f

00: 03 – – – – – – – – – – – –
10: 10 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
20: – – – 23 – – – – – – – – – – – –
30: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
40: – – – – – – – – – 49 – – – – – –
50: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
60: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
70: – – – – – – 76 –

I’ve installed the python library by running:
git clone GitHub - pimoroni/pa1010d-python: Python library for the Pimoroni PA1010D GPS Breakout
cd pa1010d-python
sudo ./install.sh

When I run the example code the GPS data returned is all blank as below:

T: 00:43:17.869000
N: 0.0
E: 0.0
Alt: None
Sats: 0
Qual: 0
Speed: 0.0
Fix Type: 1
PDOP:
VDOP:
HDOP:

This is despite the device running for more than an hour and having direct line of sight to the sky.

Any advice on what is happening would be very much appreciated.