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Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

Keith_Beef — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:49:09 GMT

Good day to you all.

I have two GP-E2 GPS receivers, one that I use with my Canon EOS 5Ds and the other with my older EOS 100D with communication through the hot shoe.

I recently bought another second hand APS-C body, the EOS 2000D.

I was somewhat disappointed to find that the 2000D, despite being more recent than the 100D, cannot communicate through the hot shoe with the GP-E2 and from what I have read since then it seems that the 2000D needs to be linked to the GP-E2 through the hard-to-find USB cable (type mini B to mini A) ...

Well, I tracked down and bought two suitable USB cables and tried them out on the 100D and 2000D bodies and to pile disappointment on disappointment the 2000D does not seem to detect the GP-E2.

I've tried each of the GP-E2 GPS receivers with each of the USB cable and both work correctly on the 100D, but not on the 2000D.

I've just tried three different USB type A to mini B cables to connect to my computer and the computer never detects the presence of the camera. Firmware installed in version 1.0.0, which seems to be the version dating back to the body's release in 2018.

So I'm beginning to think that the problem might be either a damaged USB connector on the camera body or a problem with the firmware. Has anybody had similar problems with this body and its USB connector?

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

Waddizzle — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:09:13 GMT

The EIS 1500D/2000D is/was known as the Rebel T7 in the US. The GPS receiver GP-E2 should connect to the hot shoe. I suggest mounting the GP-E2 and turning it on, connect to a satellite, before you turn on the camera.

What was the difference between the 1500D and 2000D? Apparently, it seems to be the lens included in the basic camera kit. Otherwise, the cameras were almost identical worldwide.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

kvbarkley — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:34:20 GMT

Waddizzle did you read note 2? It requires the usb cable

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

Waddizzle — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:27:57 GMT

“ Waddizzle did you read note 2? It requires the usb cable “

Good catch. This diagram is from the T7 User Guide.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

p4pictures — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:47:00 GMT

Do you have the WiFi / NFC function switched on or active?

On the EOS 2000D if the WiFi function is enabled then the USB port is disabled. You need to disable the WiFi/NFC from the menu to activate the USB port. With WiFi enabled the GPS receiver will not work.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

kvbarkley — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:57:49 GMT

Wow p4pictures! Where have you been? haven't seen you for a while.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

shadowsports — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:54 GMT

@p4pictures

Brian... Good to see you.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

p4pictures — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:19:07 GMT

It is many months since my last visit indeed. Today I thought I'd drop in and see if I might be helpful here again.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

Waddizzle — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:19:14 GMT

No experience using it. It seems like it sits on the hot shoe, but communicates through USB. Do you have to tell the port what type of device you want to use or connect to?

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

Keith_Beef — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:24:45 GMT

Thanks for pointing that out, after disabling WiFi and NFC in the last set of options, the "GPS device settings" option became available.

The camera and GPS receiver still didn't want to play nicely together, though. Suspecting a damaged USB socket on the camera I took a USB A to mini USB B cable and connected it to my computer.

$ lsusb -t > /tmp/before_2000D.txt

Switch on camera

$ lsusb -t > /tmp/after_2000D.txt
$ diff /tmp/before_2000D.txt /tmp/after_2000D.txt
29a30
> |__ Port 2: Dev 50, If 0, Class=Imaging, Driver=usbfs, 480M
$ ls -al /run/user/1000/gvfs/gphoto2:host=Canon_Inc._Canon_Digital_Camera/DCIM/100CANON
total 279939
drwx------ 1 keith keith 0 Jan 1 1970 .
drwx------ 1 keith keith 0 Jan 1 1970 ..
-rw------- 1 keith keith 30979913 May 1 11:37 IMG_4915.CR2
-rw------- 1 keith keith 6857244 May 1 11:37 IMG_4915.JPG
-rw------- 1 keith keith 31651953 May 1 11:37 IMG_4916.CR2
-rw------- 1 keith keith 7392429 May 1 11:37 IMG_4916.JPG
-rw------- 1 keith keith 31713488 May 1 11:38 IMG_4917.CR2
-rw------- 1 keith keith 7355237 May 1 11:38 IMG_4917.JPG
-rw------- 1 keith keith 27785384 May 2 14:12 IMG_4918.CR2
-rw------- 1 keith keith 5556429 May 2 14:12 IMG_4918.JPG
-rw------- 1 keith keith 28955767 May 2 14:12 IMG_4919.CR2
-rw------- 1 keith keith 5709949 May 2 14:12 IMG_4919.JPG
-rw------- 1 keith keith 102695824 May 1 11:04 MVI_4914.MOV

So the filesystem on the SD card in the camera is seen and correctly mounted, which to me confirms that the USB socket on the body is working as expected.

This makes failure between body and GPS receiver very confusing; I've now ruled out any obvious defects in the GPS receiver (it works with other Canon bodies), the cable and this 2000D body.

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

p4pictures — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:16:24 GMT

I did find an updated firmware for the EOS 2000D camera on Canon Uk's website. There have been several updates since the 1.0.0 you said you have installed in the EOS 2000D. The latest firmware is 1.3.0.

Canon UK EOS 2000D firmware info & download

Additionally I would check the firmware version in the GP-E2, Canon UK support website has firmware version 2.0.2 available to download

Re: Communication between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

Keith_Beef — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:46:48 GMT

Well, Brian, after testing by connecting the body to a computer through a USB cable and finding that communication between the two worked, I tried the GPS receiver again and it worked...

So either the USB socket on the body had an intermittent fault or there was something (dust, fibres, etc) in the socket of either the body or the receiver.

I'm about to go out and take a few pictures around a nearby pond, so I'll see if everything works now. I'll have a tracker program running on my phone as well, to test the possibility of getting coordinates from a GPX file and writing them to image files, using the recorded exif creation time.