system gps monitor - basd command name "gps"

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi,

I’ve purchased an LTAP Mini, bought a GPS antenna and currently looking up how to enable GPS functionality and tracking on it.
Most docs/tutorials inadvertently suggest disabling the serial console and allocating that for the GPS, but it seems like I am missing some support for the GPS altogether.

For example “system gps monitor” returns “bad command name gps”.

It looks like perhaps I am missing some package or driver? Any pointers much appreciated.
I’m on RouterOS 7.14.3.

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Ok, managed to get it working.
Apparently one can install extra packages on RouterOS, gps is one of them…
Wish this was much better documented.. lost a lot of time.

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Yeah you need gps.npk. It’s surprising it doesn’t come preinstalled since GPS is always present.

But I can see how that be annoying – it be like a few help pages to figure it out if not familar with RouterOS.

You might want to make a feature request at https://help.mikrotik.com, since GPS.npk should be a factory default, IMO at least.