Help needed with communication between a Colibri and IPAQ

On Feb 13, 6:03*pm, chris wrote:
I have been using an ipaq 3950 with an older (only serial port)
Colibri for some time now. *ConnectMe can work easily sometimes and
others times be a pain. *One thing that seems to help is cycle the
'Device type' between 'Colibri, LX20...Posigraph' and 'LX4000,LX5000...
(L04 Logger)'. *For me the Colibri will eventually connect and start
beeping. *Also unplugging the Colibri and starting it up again can
help. *Sometimes it takes doing a soft rest on the PDA as well. *I can
always get it to work with a bit of patience.

Chris

On Feb 14, 7:38*am, Tim Taylor wrote:



I need help with getting a Colibri logger to communicate with an IPAQ.

I can get the Colibri to send data to the IPAQ to work with WinPilot
and I can get WinPilot to send a declaration to the Colibri, but I can
not get any software to work to allow me to download a flight from the
Colibri to the IPAQ.

System I am using:

Colibri, Hardware version 2.0, software version 3.00.
IPAQ 3950 *(I have used two different IPAQ’s with same result).

I have wired the TX from the Colibri to the RX of the IPAQ and visa
versa.

The data flows fine from the Colibri to the IPAQ and has been tested
with WinPilot TTY and StrePla.

With WinPliot I can declare a flight to the Colibri. *At 4800 baud on
both the Colibri beeps, shows connect at 4800 baud and the data
transfers.

With ConnectMe and ConnectLX (2.17) I get nothing or the software
locks up.

With StrePla Connect I get “connect at 4800 baud”, no beep from the
Colibri and the software does not recognize the logger is there.

With the serial cable and LXe I can upload and download to a Windows
XP computer without any problems.

Any help would be appreciated. *Does anyone have a Colibri with
software 3.00 that is working to download the flights to a PDA?

Chris,

Thanks I will give your suggestions a try. See my note above about
Pocket Strepla Connect (also free from StrePla), it worked very well
without problems for downloading. May be the best solution for the
older Colibri's. I also found that you must wait until the Colibri
switches from Run to Stop mode before trying to download. This can be
several minutes after you stop moving.