Reddit mentions of VK-162 Remote Mount USB GPS - Supports Stratux, Raspberry Pi, Google Earth, Windows, Linux

Make an all purpose travelpi.
Get a PI3, load it up with raspbian or your preferred OS and throw it together with this Screen and case combo. Add some heatsinks to keep it cool, put emulation station on there for all the downtime gaming action you could ask for. Then have some fun playing with accessories. Here's a bluetooth vehicle diagnostics monitor you can use with pyOBD to monitor any 96 and up vehicle to check gas mileage and check error codes. Here's a GPS module for logging miles and checking locations and for the times you just absolutely must get wifi no matter what heres an adapter and antenna that will reach out and touch someone in the next country.

Edit: game pads

Stratux is good enough for a student starting off, that doesn't own a plane. My instructor has a Sentry and we have gotten 2 false alarms for Carbon Monoxide which we acted on. And in the past 3 weeks it's been turning off mid flight. So now my instructor has just been connecting to my Stratux and keeping his Sentry off and only using it in case the stratux acts odd.

My recommendation are these with it:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CJG2ZYM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EROIUEW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and you will have to use something like makexyz to print a suction cup mounted antenna holder.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1720290

SuctioncupmountVK162only.STL

makexyz.com

you'll need to get it made with ABS & make sure you select 100% infill.

you can find suction cups that fit it at Lowes, but not home depot or staples. I tried both.

the advantage of the external GPS is you keep the unit out of the direct sunlight, and way better reception. To use the external GPS you'll have to unplug the internal GPS, if you use that USB extender. It will just stick out of the case through the provided hole.

I had two internal GPS's perform very poorly. I have one of them sitting on my desk right now. It's the Stratux GPYes 2.0.

The internal GPS would never get better than 10M accuracy, but on 5 straight flights the best it was connecting was 100+M accuracy.

With the external GPS I've been getting 3M accuracy at the worst.

I did have it lose connection the other day, which resulted in me having to assign a new static IP and then it started working.

The advantage of the static IP with the Stratux is your device iphone, ipad, etc will keep its LTE data connection active if it has one. If you use the automatic IP option you'll lose LTE, which sucks for sitting on the ground.

Let me know if you need any more info.

/r/stratux is a great place to start for software and general Stratux questions.
On the hardware side, I used a Raspberry Pi 3, this battery, these antennas, this GPS receiver, and this cooling fan. The STL can be found here.

The VK-162 is the recommended external GPS.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EROIUEW

It has a magnet in the base that can be removed by peeling off a sticker so keep that in mind if it causes issues with your compass.

Metal materials scatter and reflect radio frequencies (like Wi-Fi, bluetooth, analog radio & television, GPS, radar, etc.). Since your GPS antenna is inside the aluminum case, it is not going to receive very much signal, and the signal it will receive won't be very good quality.

If you want to keep the metal case you could get the external GPS antenna:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EROIUEW

Or, you could buy the plastic case as you mentioned. I have the plastic case for my Stratux and it's definitely a lot sturdier than it looks!

The "Stratux" listings. https://amzn.com/B01EROIUEW

I use this Stratux GPS puck:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EROIUEW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&psc=1&linkCode=ll1&tag=desibyinst-20&linkId=0f901045b1099cc99f181751b60d64df&language=en_US

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And NMEATime2 (paid, runs as a service rock solid):

https://visualgps.net/index.html#nmeatime2-content

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Can also use BktTimeSync (free) :

https://www.maniaradio.it/en/bkttimesync.html