Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Problem reading tracks from eTrex Legend via USB-to-serial interface

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

Hooray for it being a bug that isn't ours. Hooray? :-)  Please do try to
get the attention of whatever distro maintainers are involved that didn't
let you get to your tracks.

It's true that Garmins of that decade famously compress "saved" tracks by
throwing away time and the shape of most tracks.
http://www.gpsfaqs.org/faqs/garmin/xseries/g60csx/tracks.html#notime
touches on these issues, but the solutions for the USB era devices and
yours are different and there is, unfortunately for you, nothing that can
rescue them retroactively.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Marco van Leeuwen <
mas...@gm...> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for the responses and suggestions. I tried again with a different
> PC (am away from my main PC), which has only USB 2 ports, and Ubuntu 12.04,
> and there it works!
>
> So it seems that this was indeed an issue with USB3 and my USB-to-serial
> converter.
>
> The retrieved tracks only have coordinates (longitude and latitude) and
> elevation information; I had hoped to retrieve also time information, but I
> guess that the eTrex Legends does not send this over serial; in fact, it
> may not even store it in tracks... I searched a bit for this and it seems
> to be a feature of the Garmin GPS, see e.g.: http://forums.gpsreview.
> net/discussion/12967/why-doesn-t-my-track-have-time-stamps
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marco.
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Ralf Horstmann <ral...@ac...>
> wrote:
>
>> I tried to reproduce on Fedora 25, with a GPSMap 60CSx set to "GARMIN"
>> protocol
>> for the serial port. An FTDI USB serial adapter works pretty reliable,
>> while my
>> Prolific adapter works or fails depending on the USB port being used.
>>
>> My laptop has one USB port that attaches to a xhci controller like yours.
>> With
>> that, the transmission fails with similar symptoms like you have seen.
>> When I
>> either disable USB 3.0 support in BIOS setup or use a port that attaches
>> to
>> ehci-hcd, the Prolific adapter tends to work.
>>
>> If you have an option to use an USB 2.0 port, maybe that's worth a try.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralf
>>
>> * Marco van Leeuwen <mas...@gm...> [2016-12-17 17:19]:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I hope this is the right place to post my question. I have an old Garmin
>> > eTrex legend device and am trying to retrieve some (old) tracks from it.
>> > The device is connected to my PC via a serial-to-USB device. I am
>> running
>> > Ubuntu 16.04. The device shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0.
>> > (from dmesg:
>> >
>> > [  960.747772] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using
>> xhci_hcd
>> > [  960.876241] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b,
>> idProduct=2303
>> > [  960.876246] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
>> > SerialNumber=0
>> > [  960.876702] pl2303 3-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
>> > [  960.877388] usb 3-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>> >
>> > )
>> >
>> > When I do:
>> >
>> > gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F track.gpx
>> >
>> > I get:
>> >
>> > [ERROR] A800_Off: Not acknowledged
>> > GPS_Packet_Read: No DLE.  Data received, but probably not a garmin
>> packet.
>> >
>> > I've read that retrying sometimes helps, but I get:
>> >
>> > gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F track.gpx
>> > GARMIN:Can't init /dev/ttyUSB0
>> >
>> > I can unplug the USB-to-serial device and try again, but it only gives
>> me
>> > one show and always the same error.
>> >
>> > I've also tried with the debug options:
>> >
>> > gpsbabel -D9 -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F track.gpx
>> >
>> > GPSBabel Version: 1.5.2
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 fe 00 02 10 03 : ...(PRDREQ  )
>> > Rx Data:10 15 02 02 00 e7 10 03  .. (NAK     )
>> > GARMIN:Can't init /dev/ttyUSB0
>> > [AliEnv] mvl@multatuli:~$ gpsbabel -D9 -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o
>> gpx -F
>> > track.gpx
>> > GPSBabel Version: 1.5.2
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 fe 00 02 10 03 : ...(PRDREQ  )
>> > Rx Data:10 06 02 fe 00 fa 10 03  .. (ACK     )
>> > Rx Data:10 ff 85 b3 00 86 01 65 54 72 65 78 20 4c 65 67 65 6e 64 20 53
>> 6f
>> > 66 74 77 61 72 65 20 56 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20 33 2e 39 30 00 56 45 52 42
>> 4d
>> > 41 50 20 41 74 6c 61 6e 74 69 63 20 48 69 67 68 77 61 79 20 31 2e 30 30
>> 00
>> > 56 45 52 53 4d 41 50 20 43 41 4d 45 52 4f 4e 2c 20 41 5a 20 28 57 45 53
>> 54
>> > 29 2c 20 47 4c 45 4e 20 43 41 4e 59 4f 4e 20 44 41 4d 2c 20 41 5a 20 28
>> 57
>> > 45 53 54 29 2c 20 47 52 20 30 2e 30 30 00 bb 10 03
>> >  ....eTrex.Legend.Software.Version.3.90.VERBMAP.Atlantic.High
>> way.1.00.VERSMAP.CAMERON..AZ..WEST...GLEN.CANYON.DAM..AZ..WEST...GR.0.00.
>> > (PRDDAT  )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 ff 00 f9 10 03 : .....(ACK     )
>> > Unit: eTrex Legend Software Version 3.90
>> > ID: 179
>> > Version: 3.90Rx Data:10 fd 4b 50 00 00 4c 01 00 41 0a 00 41 64 00 44 6c
>> 00
>> > 41 c9 00 44 ca 00 44 6c 00 44 d2 00 41 2d 01 44 36 01 44 2d 01 41 f4 01
>> 44
>> > f5 01 41 58 02 44 58 02 41 bc 02 44 bc 02 41 20 03 44 20 03 41 22 03 44
>> 22
>> > 03 41 84 03 41 86 03 41 87 03 a0 10 03
>> >  P..L..A..Ad.Dl.A..D..Dl.D..A..D6.D..A..D..AX.DX.A..D..A..D..
>> A..D..A..A..A..
>> > (UNKNOWN )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 fd 00 fb 10 03 : .....(SESACK  )
>> >
>> > Capability A10:
>> > Capability A100: D108
>> > Capability A201: D202 D108 D210
>> > Capability A301: D310 D301
>> > Capability A500: D501
>> > Capability A600: D600
>> > Capability A700: D700
>> > Capability A800: D800
>> > Capability A802: D802
>> > Capability A900:
>> > Capability A902:
>> > Capability A903:
>> > Link_type 1  Device_command 0
>> > Waypoint: Transfer 100 Type 108
>> > Route:    Transfer 201 Header 202 Type 108
>> > Track:    Transfer 301 Type 301
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 32 00 c2 10 03 : 2....(CMDDAT  Xfer PVT Stop)
>> > Rx Data:10 63 0c 00 ff 30 31 2d 41 55 47 2d 31 31 00 98 10 03
>> ..01.AUG.11.
>> > (TRKHDR  )
>> > [ERROR] A800_Off: Not acknowledged
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 05 00 ef 10 03 : .....(CMDDAT  Xfer Time)
>> > Rx Data:10 06 02 0a 00 ee 10 03  .. (ACK     )
>> > Rx Data:10 0e 08 02 0a dc 07 08 00 20 09 ca 10 03  ........ (DATTIM  )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 0e 00 ea 10 03 : .....(ACK     )
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 02 00 f2 10 03 : .....(CMDDAT  Xfer Posn)
>> > Rx Data:10 06 02 0a 00 ee 10 03  .. (ACK     )
>> > Rx Data:10 11 10 10 dd 1b 32 e2 3a 34 e9 3f d4 c5 93 7c 4f 89 bf 3f bf
>> 10
>> > 03  ..2..4......O... (POS     )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 11 00 e7 10 03 : .....(ACK     )
>> > Waypoint type: 108
>> > Chosen waypoint length 10
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 07 00 ed 10 03 : .....(CMDDAT  Xfer Wpt)
>> > GPS_Packet_Read: No DLE.  Data received, but probably not a garmin
>> packet.
>> > [ERROR] A100_Get: No acknowledge
>> > GARMIN:Can't get waypoint from /dev/ttyUSB0
>> >
>> > or with -t:
>> >
>> > gpsbabel -D9 -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F track.gpx
>> > GPSBabel Version: 1.5.2
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 fe 00 02 10 03 : ...(PRDREQ  )
>> > Rx Data:10 15 02 02 00 e7 10 03  .. (NAK     )
>> > GARMIN:Can't init /dev/ttyUSB0
>> > [AliEnv] mvl@multatuli:~$ gpsbabel -D9 -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o
>> gpx
>> > -F track.gpx
>> > GPSBabel Version: 1.5.2
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 fe 00 02 10 03 : ...(PRDREQ  )
>> > Rx Data:10 06 02 fe 00 fa 10 03  .. (ACK     )
>> > Rx Data:10 ff 85 b3 00 86 01 65 54 72 65 78 20 4c 65 67 65 6e 64 20 53
>> 6f
>> > 66 74 77 61 72 65 20 56 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20 33 2e 39 30 00 56 45 52 42
>> 4d
>> > 41 50 20 41 74 6c 61 6e 74 69 63 20 48 69 67 68 77 61 79 20 31 2e 30 30
>> 00
>> > 56 45 52 53 4d 41 50 20 43 41 4d 45 52 4f 4e 2c 20 41 5a 20 28 57 45 53
>> 54
>> > 29 2c 20 47 4c 45 4e 20 43 41 4e 59 4f 4e 20 44 41 4d 2c 20 41 5a 20 28
>> 57
>> > 45 53 54 29 2c 20 47 52 20 30 2e 30 30 00 bb 10 03
>> >  ....eTrex.Legend.Software.Version.3.90.VERBMAP.Atlantic.High
>> way.1.00.VERSMAP.CAMERON..AZ..WEST...GLEN.CANYON.DAM..AZ..WEST...GR.0.00.
>> > (PRDDAT  )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 ff 00 f9 10 03 : .....(ACK     )
>> > Unit: eTrex Legend Software Version 3.90
>> > ID: 179
>> > Version: 3.90Rx Data:10 fd 4b 50 00 00 4c 01 00 41 0a 00 41 64 00 44 6c
>> 00
>> > 41 c9 00 44 ca 00 44 6c 00 44 d2 00 41 2d 01 44 36 01 44 2d 01 41 f4 01
>> 44
>> > f5 01 41 58 02 44 58 02 41 bc 02 44 bc 02 41 20 03 44 20 03 41 22 03 44
>> 22
>> > 03 41 84 03 41 86 03 41 87 03 a0 10 03
>> >  P..L..A..Ad.Dl.A..D..Dl.D..A..D6.D..A..D..AX.DX.A..D..A..D..
>> A..D..A..A..A..
>> > (UNKNOWN )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 fd 00 fb 10 03 : .....(SESACK  )
>> >
>> > Capability A10:
>> > Capability A100: D108
>> > Capability A201: D202 D108 D210
>> > Capability A301: D310 D301
>> > Capability A500: D501
>> > Capability A600: D600
>> > Capability A700: D700
>> > Capability A800: D800
>> > Capability A802: D802
>> > Capability A900:
>> > Capability A902:
>> > Capability A903:
>> > Link_type 1  Device_command 0
>> > Waypoint: Transfer 100 Type 108
>> > Route:    Transfer 201 Header 202 Type 108
>> > Track:    Transfer 301 Type 301
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 32 00 c2 10 03 : 2....(CMDDAT  Xfer PVT Stop)
>> > Rx Data:10 23 39 00 ff 00 60 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> ff
>> > ff ff ff ff ff 98 af 1b 25 02 b3 b8 03 c0 58 bf 41 51 59 04 69 51 59 04
>> 69
>> > 20 20 20 20 30 32 39 00 00 00 00 00 00 e7 10 03
>> >  .................................X.AQY.iQY.i....029...... (WPTDAT  )
>> > [ERROR] A800_Off: Not acknowledged
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 05 00 ef 10 03 : .....(CMDDAT  Xfer Time)
>> > Rx Data:10 15 02 02 00 e7 10 03  .. (NAK     )
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 02 00 f2 10 03 : .....(CMDDAT  Xfer Posn)
>> > Rx Data:10 06 02 0a 00 ee 10 03  .. (ACK     )
>> > Rx Data:10 11 10 10 dd 1b 32 e2 3a 34 e9 3f d4 c5 93 7c 4f 89 bf 3f bf
>> 10
>> > 03  ..2..4......O... (POS     )
>> > Tx Data:10 06 02 11 00 e7 10 03 : .....(ACK     )
>> > Waypoint type: 108
>> > Chosen waypoint length 10
>> > GPS Serial Open at 9600
>> > Tx Data:10 0a 02 06 00 ee 10 03 : .....(CMDDAT  Xfer Trk)
>> > Rx Data:10 23 39 00 ff 00 60 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> ff
>> > ff ff ff ff ff 0e 3a 13 25 08 56 b3 03 00 48 8f 41 51 59 04 69 51 59 04
>> 69
>> > 20 20 20 20 30 33 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 51 10 03
>> >  .............................V...H.AQY.iQY.i....031...... (WPTDAT  )
>> > cet_util: Converting from "US-ASCII" to "UTF-8", done.
>> > options: module/option=value: gpx/snlen="32" (=default)
>> >
>> > ------------
>> >
>> > Let me know if there is anything I can try to fix this; if needed, I
>> would
>> > be happy to play a bit with the code, but pointers to where to start
>> > looking would be helpful. It could be that the UDB-to-serial device is
>> > flaky; it's definitely old, but has worked in the past.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Marco.
>>
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