I purchased two of these GPS dongles
and they work just fine. I have one on a pie that is in the garage, sitting on a metal shelf. It took a few minutes for Conky to get the information from it. I first thought it wasn't working after I hooked it up and restarted the Pi, but I let it sit there and when I checked back an hour later, Conky had my grid square showing. So I actually don't know how it actually took, but it is working and continues to work after multiple restarts over the past few days.
