CNX80 IR Port

[SD]

Does anyone know of any applications that work with the Apollo CNX80
IR port? I have looked throughout the manuals for ours and searched
Garmins website, but cant find anything that talks about it, just the
fact that it has one and that you can link to it with a PDA.

Scott

[Otto Braasch]

The software to make it working is not yet available. You may ask Paul
Damschen at GarminAT > for an estimate on
the date to have it ready. I am looking to install it too.

Otto [EDML]

> From: SD <sdatverizondot.net@>
> Subject: CNX80 IR Port
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:45:59 -0700
>
> Does anyone know of any applications that work with the Apollo CNX80
> IR port? I have looked throughout the manuals for ours and searched
> Garmins website, but cant find anything that talks about it, just the
> fact that it has one and that you can link to it with a PDA.
>
> Scott

[James M. Knox]

SD <sdatverizondot.net@> wrote in news:kgmn509hm2fmg4ditk7egvlc4m923r9q0v@
4ax.com:

> Does anyone know of any applications that work with the Apollo CNX80
> IR port? I have looked throughout the manuals for ours and searched
> Garmins website, but cant find anything that talks about it, just the
> fact that it has one and that you can link to it with a PDA.

When I bought my GX-60 I was promised the specs for interfacing to it
through the second serial port. After 5 years of complaints to various
managers, including copies of letters promising such information, I was
NEVER able to get even the barest hint of information. Now, after all
those years, we are finally seeing a couple of devices that do hook into it
(to display external pages), but the data is still considered "company
confidential."

In other words, good luck! Maybe Garmin will be more forthcoming than
UPSAT.

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[Jay Masino]

James M. Knox > wrote:
> When I bought my GX-60 I was promised the specs for interfacing to it
> through the second serial port. After 5 years of complaints to various
> managers, including copies of letters promising such information, I was
> NEVER able to get even the barest hint of information. Now, after all
> those years, we are finally seeing a couple of devices that do hook into it
> (to display external pages), but the data is still considered "company
> confidential."

It's not NMEA 108.3 compliant (I think that's the number, I'm doing that
from memory). If you were designing your own device for it, you could
probably figure out the neumonics. I hooked it up to the serial port of
my Palm III, and ran a dumb terminal program. The GX-60 is putting out
human readable neumonics, it's just not NMEA (and it's not at the standard
NMEA baud rate).

--- Jay

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