you might also be interested to read Universal Serial Bus - the easy way
(4 pages) and virtual com port drivers described at:
http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb-easy-way.pdf
Best regards
Viktoras
Graham Samuel wrote:
Thanks Phil for that insight. I had a quick look at your link and
staggered back,
On 4/3/08 10:45, Graham Samuel wrote:
FWIW, the GPS device I described is marketed by a European sports
retailer, Decathlon, as KeyMaze 300 GH-601. I've found out via the SiRF
web site (the device uses a SiRFstarIII processor) that it is actually a
rebranded GlobalSat GH-601 - this is
There seemed when I was working in this area to be two main sources of the
latter: FTDI and ??Prolific?. Although the devices I was working with were
Windows only, I was able to find Mac drivers for both of these things with a
bit of googling on the net (because other products are using
This is what I was referring to before. I was able to communicate with
a few of my 'Serial' now USB devices using the same drivers from
Keyspan. I noticed after install from a Kestrel device that the driver
that created the Virtual Com Port was the same.
I found them here :
FTDI drivers (including macosx):
http://www.ftdichip.com/
applications to eavesdrop usb communication (windows only):
usb snoopy: http://www.wingmanteam.com/usbsnoopy/
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...trying to figure out more than one (well... two) way of how one
can make Revolution read a constant data stream coming via sockets,
never ending log files, GPSes or any other real time monitoring
system. Application has to display the changing status of these readings
and in the same
On 4/3/08 08:04, viktoras didziulis wrote:
...trying to figure out more than one (well... two) way of how one can
make Revolution read a constant data stream coming via sockets, never
ending log files, GPSes or any other real time monitoring system.
Application has to display the changing
FWIW, the GPS device I described is marketed by a European sports
retailer, Decathlon, as KeyMaze 300 GH-601. I've found out via the
SiRF web site (the device uses a SiRFstarIII processor) that it is
actually a rebranded GlobalSat GH-601 - this is GlobalSat of Taiwan.
On the SiRF site this
Hi Graham,
Graham Samuel wrote:
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It looks to me as if my wish to create better software for it (on a
Mac primarily) is pretty much a dead end - although if I can get hold
of a serial-to-USB converter I might be able to experiment a bit.
BTW I wonder why Rev has never entered the
Thanks Phil for that insight. I had a quick look at your link and
staggered back, appalled. It reminded me of what a gentleman named
Robert Lipe said to me on another list when he thought I was trying
to reverse engineer the USB interface of my device (maybe I was - I
had not considered
Graham Samuel wrote:
Thanks Phil for that insight. I had a quick look at your link and
staggered back, appalled.
It's pretty ugly.
It reminded me of what a gentleman named Robert Lipe said to me on
another list when he thought I was trying to reverse engineer the USB
interface of my device
Tom,
U, I don't know what to say, but... thanks for all the links.
I'm hoping most of the issues will be resolved simply because it now comes
with Mac compatible software. Although I don't have the unit in my hot
little hand, I just visited Garmin's support site and download the very
latest
usually GPS devices use NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association)
protocol.
Check this:
http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm
Best wishes
Viktoras
Andre Garzia wrote:
Richard,
I never did that but I think there's a protocol and it's all ascii
based. I think you just open the
On 1/3/08 22:59, R. Hillen wrote:
is there anybody who succeeded in reading data from a gps device into a
revolution application?
How did you do it? Which device did you use?
Hi Richard,
I did this a couple of years ago in Rev - it was very straightforward. All
(er, virtually all) GPS
This interests me also - I have a simple GPS device (a so-called
'training' device) which captures trackpoints and waypoints. Its
current PC software is just that, i.e. it doesn't work on a Mac, and
more or less the only thing it can do is to create a kml file for use
by Google Earth. I am
Graham,
What is the make and model of the device?
Most of the devices that I have seen (even the USB only ones) use
serial commands or a converter to serial commands. I have come across
a few generic USB drivers for things like the Keyspan High Speed
Serial converter. It is a Serial to
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This interests me also - I have a simple GPS device (a so-called
'training' device) which captures trackpoints and waypoints. Its
current PC software is just that, i.e. it doesn't work on a Mac, and
more or less the only
Kay the Garmin Training Center takes XML files and outputs to XML as
well. I don't know if it is working with serial commands or not since
I don't have the Edge 305.
You can download the program to play around with at:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/collection.jsp?product=010-00447-00
Keep
Kay,
Also: Garmin USB support just works. Support is built into the
kernel, so the device now sits on a pseudo-serial port called /dev/
ttyUSB0. quote found here: http://www.marengo-ltd.com/gps/
Also of interest:
http://www.gpsbabel.org/
Getting info out of the 305: -
Kay,
Lastly, This is for Firefox and Google Maps with a GPX Conversion.
Supposed to work with the 305.
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/
But GPS Babel is supposed to be the swiss army knife for GPX file
formats
Tom
On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Hello,
is there anybody who succeeded in reading data from a gps device into
a revolution application?
How did you do it? Which device did you use?
Thank you.
Richard.
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