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- Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:18 am #69772

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Welcome on the great world of internet forums @invisible008.

Thanks! Sorry I'm new here.

= I have already answered my own problem. I do have another question , is it possible for a nodemcu give its own location through latitude and longitude without using any gps module. I've already tried geolocation based on IP address, but it gets the IP address of my ISP. Thanks

- Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:07 pm #69821 You don't want to use IP geolocation: it's by far not accurate enough and will only give a rough estimate of the location of the WAP IP address (like in what city is the subscriber of the IP address at) and even that can be way off the real location.
(If I geolocate my WAN IP, it returns the location of my ISP 100km from here)

GPS modules are very cheap (€2.50 ~ €3.00), very small, very easy to work with (you only need to listen @9600 Baud on serial and parse the text) and very accurate (less than 15m, depending on conditions).

Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups. At least: that's what I'm assuming.