Steve B
September 27th 03, 04:55 AM
Bingo... a fine gentelman pointed me to the need to set the Garmin to NMEA Out only.
Now it works like a charm!
Thanks folks
(Steve B) wrote in message >...
> Question 1
>
> I connect 3955 to a PC via ActiveSync cradle using my 9pin cable. With
> my Garmin 195. The Garmin has:
>
> Pin 1 - Ground = Black
> Pin 4 - NMEA out = Blue
> Pin 5 - NMEA in = Brown
>
> Then pin 5,2 and 3 on that connector. 5 is ground. I connect: black-5,
> blue-3 and brown-2 on the female PDA cable pin 3 receives data (in),
> pin 2 sends data (out).
>
> I made certain that in the NMEA setup dialog the "Use RX_FLAG"
> checkbox is cleared. I use the RMC code and do all my testing outdoors
> on real GPS signal, as I understand the GPS may mark "emulator" data
> invalid. I set data rate to 4800. I have tried to do serial port
> testing indoors with enable raw data logging in logging options. When
> enabled, all data coming in on serial port are logged to a
> rawGPS_LOGdata##!!.txt file
>
> But the file shows 0 bytes.
>
> Once I get NMEA data into that file, I should expect program to work
> with above settings on real GPS data.
>
> The pins on the ipaq female connector looking at the connector plug I
> assume are as follows:
> _______
> \ 54321/
> \9876/
>
>
> So I connected:
>
> Pin 1 to 5 on female
> Pin 4 to 2 on female
> Pin 5 to 3 on female of Ipaq
>
>
> I checked the Garmin and it is set Inpt / output to Data Transfer
> and
> Slave mode
>
> The Ipaq is set to
> setup / NMEA to RMC and (check length) is checked and port is Com 1
>
>
>
>
>
> Question # 2
>
> I also purchased a generic data cable for the Ipac
> The generic cable has 4 wires as follows:
>
> Pins 1 to 22
>
> 2 = Red = Power? I am not using this lead
>
> 7 = White = Tx or Rx ???
>
> 8 = Yellow = Rx or Tx ???
>
>
> 22 = Blue = Ground ???
>
>
> I could not get it to work with this either... do you know where I
> can find the pinouts for the Ipaq 3900 that would show pins 1 to 22?
>
> Any help on how I can I trouble shoot the problem would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Steve
>
> Ps? (just shoot me if I cant get this thing to work)
Now it works like a charm!
Thanks folks
(Steve B) wrote in message >...
> Question 1
>
> I connect 3955 to a PC via ActiveSync cradle using my 9pin cable. With
> my Garmin 195. The Garmin has:
>
> Pin 1 - Ground = Black
> Pin 4 - NMEA out = Blue
> Pin 5 - NMEA in = Brown
>
> Then pin 5,2 and 3 on that connector. 5 is ground. I connect: black-5,
> blue-3 and brown-2 on the female PDA cable pin 3 receives data (in),
> pin 2 sends data (out).
>
> I made certain that in the NMEA setup dialog the "Use RX_FLAG"
> checkbox is cleared. I use the RMC code and do all my testing outdoors
> on real GPS signal, as I understand the GPS may mark "emulator" data
> invalid. I set data rate to 4800. I have tried to do serial port
> testing indoors with enable raw data logging in logging options. When
> enabled, all data coming in on serial port are logged to a
> rawGPS_LOGdata##!!.txt file
>
> But the file shows 0 bytes.
>
> Once I get NMEA data into that file, I should expect program to work
> with above settings on real GPS data.
>
> The pins on the ipaq female connector looking at the connector plug I
> assume are as follows:
> _______
> \ 54321/
> \9876/
>
>
> So I connected:
>
> Pin 1 to 5 on female
> Pin 4 to 2 on female
> Pin 5 to 3 on female of Ipaq
>
>
> I checked the Garmin and it is set Inpt / output to Data Transfer
> and
> Slave mode
>
> The Ipaq is set to
> setup / NMEA to RMC and (check length) is checked and port is Com 1
>
>
>
>
>
> Question # 2
>
> I also purchased a generic data cable for the Ipac
> The generic cable has 4 wires as follows:
>
> Pins 1 to 22
>
> 2 = Red = Power? I am not using this lead
>
> 7 = White = Tx or Rx ???
>
> 8 = Yellow = Rx or Tx ???
>
>
> 22 = Blue = Ground ???
>
>
> I could not get it to work with this either... do you know where I
> can find the pinouts for the Ipaq 3900 that would show pins 1 to 22?
>
> Any help on how I can I trouble shoot the problem would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Steve
>
> Ps? (just shoot me if I cant get this thing to work)