Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] support for Garmin GLO

[Andrew D. <ad...@tr...>]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Robert Lipe wrote:

> Is there any evidence that device actually supports communications over USB
> at all or are they just enumerating it on the bus so they can gulp 500mA
> for charging instead of the 100mA max for a non-enumerated device?
>
> Either way, the device is choking on the very first packet we send it, so
> it looks to not be anything like their existing devices.
>

Apparently the USB is only designed for charging. I contacted Garmin 
support and had a reply a few days later saying it only communicates 
via BlueTooth but forgot to forward here; sorry.
I was a bit surprised to hear that as other Garmin devices clearly do 
communicate via USB e.g. my daughter's GPSMap76C.

I did get the GLO to work with my N810 over BlueTooth but not (yet) my 
laptop, which is running an old Fedora 9.

- does anyone know offhand whether it should be possible for a BT-aware 
laptop to pair with a BT GPS like the GLO ? I could update the Linux side 
to e.g  CENTOS6, or try on Vista.

thanks - Andrew

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Andrew Daviel <ad...@tr...> wrote:
>
>>
>> I recently bought a Garmin GLO Bluetooth GPS receiver, based on a
>> newspaper review.
..
>> Cut to the chase - it has a USB connector, and appears in Linux as a USB
>> device. If I try to read data with gpsbabel, I get
>>
>> $ gpsbabel -T -i garmin -f usb: -o nmea -D 6
>> GPSBabel Version: 1.4.4
>> TX [12]:00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ............(SESREQ  )
>> RX (intr) [-110]:(CMDDAT  Abort)
>> Could not start session in a reasonable number of tries.


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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada