Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] IQ ONE+ how to download data

[Fouret R. <reg...@fr...>]

Robert Lipe wrote:
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> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Fouret Régis <reg...@fr... 
> <mailto:reg...@fr...>> wrote:
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>     Hello there, i have just bought an IQ ONE+ and done three
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> I don't know if that's just an unpopular product line in our user base 
> or if it just works really well (my guess is the former) but I haven't 
> seen a lot of chatter - good or bad - about that module.
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>     linux with gpsbabel:
>     gpsbabel -i baroiq -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -i igc  -o igc -F my3D.igc
>     BRAUNIGER-IQ:  Select recorded flight in memo mode.
>     BRAUNIGER-IQ:  Press Memo button for two seconds...
>     BRAUNIGER-IQ:  Downloading flight...
>     BRAUNIGER-IQ: Incomplete download
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>     and it ends without having downloaded anything...
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> One thing that catches my eye about that format is that it doesn't 
> *really* do any serial port initialization; it expects to read a 
> "file" which kind of leaves you at the whim of various serial defaults.
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> I'm afraid that for this to proceed, someone with access to hardware 
> is going to have to debug it.  We can probably talk you through the 
> process (perhaps on -code instead of -misc) if you're comfortable 
> debugging code.
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> As a first order check, just capture the output from the unit to a 
> file and see if it's basically readable.
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> Does 'cat -u /dev/ttyUSB0 > blah' result in a file that looks 
> basically like an IGC file?
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> RJL
Hello, 'cat -u /dev/ttyUSB0 > blah' never ends, interrupting with Ctl-C 
give me an empty blah file ;)
Maybe my instrument is broken i don't know, i will try on another 
windows machine this afternoon and see...
Any other suggestion?