Thread: [Gpsbabel-misc] Garmin III plus
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From: Clyde E. <cw...@ii...> - 2004-02-28 05:57:52
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Using GPSBabel (windows version) "Under the Hood" with GSAK I had the following query from one user, quote: "I downloaded waypoints to my Garmin III plus and only got the first letter of the name in the comments section on the GPS. I tried it with easy GPS and it worked fine." I have not had any other problem reports of this kind (though I can't say how many users have a Garmin III plus) Any obvious problems ring a bell here? Thanks Clyde |
From: Robert L. <rob...@us...> - 2004-02-28 16:50:21
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Clyde England wrote: > "I downloaded waypoints to my Garmin III plus and only got the first letter > of the name in the comments section on the GPS. I tried it with easy GPS From the top of my pointy little head, I can't recall hearing success or failure with the III+. Since the fictional "garmin serial protocol" is actually about a dozen different protocols that look vaguely familiar, I can't fake shock when I hear corner cases that don't work. However, we've had excellent success when affected hardware is in the hands of a programmer type and very good success when working with a user that can follow instructions to be the remote "eyes and ears" of a developer. (Send him our way directly if you'd like to not be the middle-man here, Clyde.) Ask him to send one waypoint to this unit with max debugging turned on and send us exactly what appears on the screen. Just hack down a GPX file to contain only one cache gpsbabel -i gpx -f that_file_gpx -D9 -o garmin -F com1: This will show us every byte going over the wire and will allow us to see which if the 15 (I'm not making this up) different waypoint transfer protocols is in use and what we're putting on the hose. The volume will be large and nerdy. It's important to cut and paste or blast it to a file and report it precisely and not "interpret" it[1]. From there, we can probably stare at the spec and see which packet is malformed. Ask him to look at his receiver afterward and see which field was fried, what it contained, and what he exepected it to contain. It's really not hard for the user; we just need him to be our eyes and ears since the price tag of GPSBabel doesn't allow us to have a lab full of test gear. RJL [1] One user reported "then it said a bunch of numbers". It was a long day. :-) |
From: Robert L. <rob...@us...> - 2004-03-02 14:49:21
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Clyde England wrote: > "I downloaded waypoints to my Garmin III plus and only got the first letter > of the name in the comments section on the GPS. I tried it with easy GPS > and it worked fine." Are there any III+ owners that can confirm or deny this behaviour and help take it to the mat? I didn't see any offers for the requested packet dumps, so I don't know how to get past this without someone with the hardware willing to help. RJL |
From: Clyde E. <cw...@ii...> - 2004-03-02 22:03:04
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I have two users that have reported this exact same problem. I am a little disappointed that so far neither has taken up your excellent suggestion to provide feedback so we can get this sorted out. Perhaps it is still forthcoming and I just haven't been notified. I will keep prodding, but if anyone else would like to have a go it would be great. Thanks Clyde *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 02/03/04 at 8:44 AM Robert Lipe wrote: >Clyde England wrote: > >> "I downloaded waypoints to my Garmin III plus and only got the first >letter >> of the name in the comments section on the GPS. I tried it with easy GPS >> and it worked fine." > >Are there any III+ owners that can confirm or deny this behaviour and >help take it to the mat? I didn't see any offers for the requested >packet dumps, so I don't know how to get past this without someone with >the hardware willing to help. > >RJL |