Remove unrelated ecosystem comparisons and software citations while retaining hardware links, measured model names, and required license notices.
Preserve stock-peer runners and tests in a verified local validation package. Keep shared Companion USB transport in the firmware repository for the raw-radio sweep and OTA seeder, with focused CI coverage. Restore missing hosted documentation links.
The M6's L76K GPS streams NMEA at 9600 baud on its own, but the firmware
reported no GPS. Root cause: pin 29 (PIN_GPS_RESET / the module's REINIT
line) was driven HIGH, which holds the L76K silent so it never emits any
sentences and detection fails.
variant.cpp drove pin 29 HIGH at boot, and because PIN_GPS_RESET was
defined, MicroNMEALocationProvider also drove it HIGH in begin(). Bench
testing on a sealed M6 (passive NMEA capture, no logic analyzer) confirmed:
pin 29 driven HIGH = 0 bytes; pin 29 floating = full NMEA stream.
Define GPS_RESET (-1) so the location provider never touches pin 29, and
stop driving it in initVariant. This matches the Meshtastic M6 variant,
which leaves the same pin as a floating input.
mikecarper
Jody Bentley
Florent