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SteveSmith
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 Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject: Comparison chart says that Viewsonic V37 works with serial? |
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I'm struggling to find out how a V37 Viewsonic can be hooked up to my serial gps device?
The comparison chart has a big green tick for serial devices but I cant for the life of me work out how it can be done.
Does anyone here have any idea please?
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Yes it can.
What GPS do you have or want to hook up?
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I'm trying to use the serial feed from the Road Angel that I have.
I've used this feed in the past to plot progress and position on a laptop with Autoroute so it occured to me I could do similar if I have TomTom on my Viewsonic V37 pda reading its serial port for a device sending EMEA?? data.
If the Viewsonic does have a serial port I just need to discover it I guess? |
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It occured to me that you may not recognise the Road Angel device. Its a self contained dashboard top device with a GPS receiver in it. As you go down the road it references your position and alarms if you are approaching the vicinity of a known speed camera or other hazard in its database.
Its a usefull device and works well, resulting in my having a clean license at last :-)
One of its facilities is that it can make the GPS data available out the back via a female 9 pin rs232 connection.
I'm a dab hand with a soldering iron, breakout box etc so am happy to cut and splice a cable once I know what its outputs are.... and there lies the tricky bit eh! |
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Great stuff thanks.
I've been to the site and ordered the necessary, thanks for your help.
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