Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:20:13 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 100 as a GPS whould like to hear your experience
In a message dated 1/5/2004 11:54:33 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello All, > Trying to get some information from you guys how do you use your Libretto as > a GPS machine in your car I will describe the way I implemented it and the > problems I’m facing. > > Having a Libretto 100 with 166 MHz, 64 MB memory and 30GB disk I looked at > it as the best solution for GPS in my Car . > Leaving currently in the US I bought 2 different MAP SW: Streets and Trips > 2003 - Microsoft, and Street Atlas USA 2003 - Delorme. > I'm using a USB GPS which I bought for ~ $100 via the internet from company > called Deluo : http://www.deluo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc. > > Using my Dock station (I need a USB connection and only now I ordered a USB > 2 cards PCMCIA from Ebay) and giving 110 V power using a DC - AC converter > for my car. > Trying to find a place to install the GPS on my Dashboard and without making > any holes in it - I finally put it in the gloves drawer (Keeping it open). > > Knowing that that it is not the nicer solution I still expected to get a lot > from this combination. > > The problems - The first SW (Streets and Trips 2003) is being updated by the > GPS every ~15 seconds - which mean that you can miss the turn. - After > finding a patch in the Internet that increase the frequency for every 2 > seconds it become better but cause other problems (The system is loosing > connection to the GPS and other. I read that the 2004 version has a better > GPS module. > > The second SW (Street Atlas USA 2003 - Delorme ) worked better but it took > almost 10 minutes until I was able to get the first signal from the GPS and > find my location in the map. To be honest the requirement for this SW was > 266 Mhz Pentium machine. BTW this SW has a Voice support which can give you > directions by voice and also can answer to build in list of verbal > questions. > > Testing these two SW with my other Laptop (IBM T-20) show that the problem > is not in the GPS or in the SW but seems to be as a result of the low CPU > power I have in my Libretto. > > Would like to hear from your experience. > Thanks. > Yuval > I'm using Street Atlas version 8. It has a few less features, but is much less demanding than the 2003 version, cpu-wise. It acquires the GPS pretty much instantly. I tried Streets and Trips, but could never get it to see the GPS at all, using a PCMCIA/serial adapter (my GPS is a Garmin Etrex Venture with serial interface). Placing the GPS in a glovebox may be affecting the signal acquisition. Have you confirmed that the GPS is receiving at least three satellites strongly when the GPS is in the glovebox? There are dash mounting systems for the Garmin and Magellan GPSs, maybe there is one available for your brand. It really helps signal acquisition to have my GPS on the dash. Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
