![]() Because “software development” that’s why the instructions are wrong. Try to figure out why website build instructions don’t work. I’ll build my own version and add some debug. Have a glass of Malbec, things look better. Ponder why software development is as b-awful today as it was when I started in the late 70s. Right, I’ll get an old version and try that. Idiot! See that gpsbabel is v 1.5.3 and we’re on gpsbabel v 1.7.0 on the laptop. Well that’s odd but I remembered that there was something else but never wrote it down. Run commands and gpsbabel talks to GPS but wont write out file. Ah of course it was that.Ĭonnect up laptop to Pi access point, plug in GPS, ssh to PI, read GPS help file I wrote back in 2016. Find old phone with the links to the webpages, find IP address. It runs a turnkey app, connect Iridium modem power up Pi, wait 3 minutes and then you can connect to the access point with your phone and access the webserver to send spots. Can’t remember the static IP address it has so I can’t connect. I powered up the Raspberry Pi I have used before to drive my GPS. I confirmed that it was still broken on the laptop (Debian 11) Of course it should be some simple debugging but like everything simple and software I started at 4pm and its 945pm now and things are not properly sorted. Has anyone seen anything like this or is it my particular setup and GPS device that are not playing nice. I haven’t tried blacklisting the garmin_gps driver and trying using the usb: pseudo device in gpsbabel with the command “gpsbabel -r -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F myroutes.gpx”Ĭomputer is a 6 year old Dell i7 running Debian Linux 11.1 with kernel 5.10.0-9-amd64 and the GPS is a Garmin Vista HCx from 2008. dev/ttyUSB0 is the Garmin GPS using the garmin_gps driver in the kernel and the command is “gpsbabel -r -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F myroutes.gpx” As soon as the GPS menu screen comes up, comms no longer functions. If I power cycle the GPS and issue the gpsbabel command when the Garmin welcome screen is displayed then the transfer works perfectly. I will get a message saying no data and cannot init /dev/ttyUSB0. If the GPS is on and connected to the laptop and I try to upload or download routes/tracks etc. Now when I try I have a very short window when comms works. I used gpsbabel on my Raspberry Pi, the one that drives my Iridium modem, to handle the comms. I have used gpsbabel before when my Win10 tablet was missing Garmin USB drivers. The problem is gpsbabel is having problems communicating with the GPS. I have a Win10 tablet I can use but taking a tablet and laptop is over the top. I have a few days away and want to handle the sync on a Linux laptop except it’s being problematic. The fix is to power cycle the GPS, do a sync whilst the Garmin welcome screen is displayed and after that you can sync whenever you like. Since the last GPS week rollover there are times when Win10 cannot sync with the GPS. Most of the time my Garmin Vista HCX GPS is synced over a USB connection to Windows PCs. I have an odd problem and am wondering if anyone else has seen it and maybe has a fix. ![]()
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