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/*!
\page position-plugin-serialnmea.html
\title Qt Positioning Serial NMEA plugin
\ingroup QtPositioning-plugins

\brief Reads the NMEA stream from a serial connection to provide position updates.

\section1 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 \b serialnmea.


\section1 Parameters

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

\table
\header
    \li Parameter
    \li Description
\row
    \li serialnmea.serial_port
    \li The serial port where the NMEA stream is coming.
\endtable

\section1 Parameter Usage Example

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

\section2 QML

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

\section2 C++

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

*/