function [lat, lon, ActiveRMC] = ReadGarmin(serGPS)
% Reads GPS via polling.   If no data, does not wait, returns nans.
% serial port must first be initialized using initializeGPSlovett
% inputs: serGPS (from initializeGPSovett)
% relToX, relToY, some initial position that you may want to index position from (in
% meters)
% if you want raw measurements use 0,0
% Outputs:  x (lon) and y(lat) position in meters, 
% speed in m/sec, heading of VELOCITY vector (not vehicle!)
%
% four ways to terminate:
% 1. get expected data!
% OR if no data available returns NANs
%Screen message tell you why.  Here are possibilities:
% 2.  No data there at all (GPS is dead, between updates, or not connected)
% 3.  Data there but not what I need / garbled (RMC sentence)
% 4.  Data there but experinced error reading it!  (unexpected? not normal)

%%  initialize to nan
lat =nan; lon = nan; header=nan; e_stop=nan; MS_TIMER=nan; heading=nan; Roll=nan; Pitch=nan; Yaw=nan; samples=nan; footer=nan;
V = nan; W = nan; goodSentence = []; ActiveRMC= nan;
Mx = nan; My = nan;
%% IF THERE IS NO DATA?
if (get(serGPS, 'BytesAvailable')==0)
    disp('Data not avail.   Try again or check transmitter.')
    return
end

%% IF THERE IS DATA
while (get(serGPS, 'BytesAvailable')~=0)

    % read until terminator
    sentence = fscanf(serGPS, '%s');
    Ns = length(sentence);

    try
        % I am using the RMC sentences, don't want partial sentences either
        if strcmp(sentence(1:6),'$GPRMC') % & (Ns >10)
             %strip off data (not all used)
            [prefixRMC,timeRMC,ActiveRMC,lat,latdirRMC,lon,londirRMC,spdKnots,AngleDeg] = strread(sentence, '%s%f%s%f%s%f%s%f%f', 1, 'delimiter', ',');
             %disp('Success!')
            if isempty(lat)||(ActiveRMC{1} ~='A')
                lat = nan;
            end
            if isempty(lon)||(ActiveRMC{1} ~='A')
                lon = nan;
            end
           goodSentence = sentence; 
           
        end
  catch ERR_MSG
        %this shoudl never happen!
      %disp('Error Reading Data! Check Code')
      %clear sentence
  end

end