GR 230 with destinator on loox

marcAB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 8

Hello,
I've just bought a Holux GR 230 Mouse to be used by BT with a FS loox 610BT/WLAN and Destinator v.3
A get a BT connection between mouse and PDA (without been asked for the key). The Pocket Plugfree software tells me the connection is realised on COM6.
By openeing COM6 with gpsview or cruxview everything wotks fine
BUT
Destinator drives me crazy by telling me: GPS not found.
I've tried the search and every possible combination of baud rate/protocoll/COM port by hand

Is there anybody with the solution of this problem?

Marc

Dave · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject:

Just use the settings you are using in the other apps and it should work. It works for me okay. I use COM8, NMEA 9600 and it connects first time.

Don't use the find feature as it's a bit buggy, just set it manually. Also make sure that if you also have TomTom Navigator installed to uninstall the TomTom ~ GPS driver and perform a soft reset as this will stop it from working.

marcAB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 8

Hello Dave,

thank you for your answer

- I made a softreset of the Loox
- connected the GR230 per BT with the pocket Plugfree: tells me "Verbindung zu HOLUX GR-230 auf SPP slave über Port COM6 hergestellt"
- started destinator 3.025
- tried COM6/9600/NMEA: GPS not found
- tried COM8/0600/NMEA: Port busy
- started the PHM Device Manager with following information:
Native IR COM2 device driver Serial.Dll, device ID 10
Serial Cable on SP2 COM4 device driver Serial.Dll, TSP driver Unimodem.dll, device ID 11
Serielles Kabel an COM1 device driver Serial.Dll, TSP driver Unimodem.dll, device ID 09
SPP Slave FBE9 (SPP) COM6 device driver RtSerialCE.Dll, TSP driver Unimodem.dll, device ID 39
unknown Serial Device COM3 device driver IRCOMM.DLL, device ID 25
USB Cable COM 5

COM8 is not listed

???????

marcAB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 8

the only other GPS Software installed is gpsview from Holux and cruxview
both can open COM6 and the protocoll is correct and a satellites are found

Dave · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

COM6 is definately the right com port for you looking at the above driver info. COM8 works on the HP iPAQ 2210's but this changes depending on the manufacturer of the Pocket PC and what other drivers you have installed.

What baud rate are you connecting at with GPSView ? In theory selecting the same baud rate should work. Mine's currently running on 9600 but you may have switched it to another baud rate by accident.

It works okay for me but I'm running 3.0.32.

marcAB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 8

gpsview works fine with every baudrate. Normally I use 9600.
With exactly the same settings NMEA/COM6/9800 I still get GPS NOT FOUND.
I even tried a hard reset an installing only destinator v3.025 ( I started trying v3.054 without more success). Still the same.
Is it possible that the BT driver is the cause?

Marc

Dave · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

The BT driver is going to be the one installed with the operating system, so in theory, no. If other programs can access it then there shouldn't be an issue unless they're locking open the com port.

marcAB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 8

That's also my opinion but I'm short of hypothesis now...

It's very difficult to get a support by Fujitsu-Siemens or destinator
Since the same combination (Desti + 230) works on your IPAQ the conclusion would be that the problem is located in the PDA ...

I'm really confused now

gab007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2005 Posts: 1

If anyone has the "GPS not found" error message using Destinator and bluetooth GPS try this:

http://franson.com/gpsgate/

It worked for me.
GPS was working fine with other applications, but destinator could not see the device without this program. it took a few days till I figured out this could be a solution.

Gabor

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