Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Help connecting to a Garmin GPS II Plus

[Jack F. <jcf...@me...>]

I was trying to use the GUI.

When I tried

gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F blah.gpx

as you suggested from the command line it worked.

Thanks for the tip.

I appreciate it.

Jack

On 7/17/24 19:24, Robert Lipe wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:16 PM Jack Frillman via Gpsbabel-misc 
> <gps...@li...> wrote:
>
>     I'm trying to connect to a Garmin GPS II Plus but have been unable
>     to get GPS Babel to connect to the GPS unit.
>
>     This is what I'm working with:
>
>     + Garmin GPS II Plus (This has the 4 pin proprietary plug to a
>     RS232 plug. I have RS232 to USB cable connected to that.)
>     + Linux Fedora 39
>     + GPSBabel 1.9.0
>
>     I have read through the "Hotplug vs. Garmin USB on Linux"
>     documentation. This documentation refers to the old Fedora Core
>     naming convention up to Fedora Core 14.   How does Fedora 39
>     relate to these directions?
>
> It doesn't. You have a serial Garmin, not a USB Garmin. That doesn't 
> apply to you.
>
>
>
>     When I do a "sudo dmesg" I get this output when the GPS unit is
>     plugged into the computer.
>
>     [  247.416794] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 6 using
>     xhci_hcd
>     [  247.543901] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=067b,
>     idProduct=2303, bcdDevice= 4.00
>     [  247.543917] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>     SerialNumber=0
>     [  247.543923] usb 1-3: Product: USB-Serial Controller D
>     [  247.543928] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
>     [  247.546847] pl2303 1-3:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
>     [  247.547892] usb 1-3: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>
>     So I know that Linux is recognizing it.
>
> Yay.
>
>     What do I need to do to get this working?
>
> You didn't say what's NOT working or what you tried or what you're 
> even trying to do. Did you just stop?
>
>     Note: I had this GPS cable combination working once on a Windows
>     computer that I no longer have.
>
>
> GPSBabel on Windows and Linux works very much the same. Only the 
> device name changes and that's picked by the OS, not by us.
>
> So if before you did a
>
> gpsbabel -i garmin -f com3: -o gpx -F blah.gpx
>
>  to read your waypoints from the garmin on com3 and write them in a 
> gpx file name blah.gpx
>
> you can  now
>
> gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F blah.gpx
>
> only the device name changes.
>
> Some Linux systems don't always use ttyUSB0 so literally, but that's 
> where I'd start.
>
> You may have permissions issues about opening device nodes as a user, 
> but that works exactly the way UNIX permissions have worked for 50 
> years and isn't really a GPSBabel issue.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> RJL

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