Desperate man armed with iPaq 6340 & Leadtek bluetooth

glennog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Posts: 5

I've treated myself for christmas, to an iPaq 6340, TomTom Navigator 3 software and a Leadtek Bluetooth GPS receiver. Whatever I do, however, I can't get the two to talk to each other. The Leadtek receiver is SiRF II.

I've downloaded and installed the WinFast Navigator, but it doesn't actually show any data. According to my PPC settings, the Serial Bluetooth connection is on Com 4, and I set that in WinFast Navigator. I also select SiRF on 38400 baud. But still I get nothing.

Can anybody help a desperately desperate man?

Cheers
glennog

DavidW · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

There should be two Bluetooth COM ports showing in the Bluetooth Settings on your iPAQ. You use the outgoing one for a Bluetooth GPS.

If you want to try WinFast Navigator, the correct settings should be NMEA (not SiRF - I've not yet come across a Bluetooth GPS supplied in SiRF binary mode), 38400bps and your outgoing Bluetooth serial port. It may help if you discover the services on your GPS (and, if necessary pair it) using the iPAQ's Bluetooth Manager first.

David

glennog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Posts: 5

Yeah, you're absolutely right. COM7: Strangely, though, before I did a hard reset and blew it all away the option for COM7: never appeared in the list of available ports. Now, of course, it does, and it works.

Thanks for the advice.

glennog

glennog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Posts: 5

Okay, here's the deal... I've wiped my iPaq (for the 3rd time Rolling Eyes

) and I ran the Navigator software for the Leadtek GPS. It works. It tracks. It's a happy bunny. Connects to "Serial7 COM7:" at 38400 (actually it does connect using Sirf, but NMEA gives it a problem - keeps crashing the app).

So, great, I install TomTom and I'm away, right? Wrong. I install TomTom and "Serial7 COM7:" ceases to exist. I go back into Navigator and in the Port Settings box, the port is BLANK. I click ok anyway, thinking it must still know where COM7 is, and I get an error saying it can't open "Serial7 COM7:". So, I'm right, it does know, but it can't open it.

So... Looks like TomTom Navigator 3 is the culprit. Anybody got any suggestions?

DavidW · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject:

If you haven't already, download and install TomTom GPS 3.07 (or, if you wish, Navigator 3.07 - which includes GPS 3.07). That's the only version documented as working on an iPAQ 6300 series with a Bluetooth GPS.

You can get to the downloads in the downloads area of support.tomtom.com

David

glennog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Posts: 5

Nice one for the pointer...

Funnily enough, after posting that I had a look around elsewhere on the forum and noticed a guy with his version (3.07) in his signature. I can't remember who that was, but as soon as I saw it I thought "Sh*t, what version am I running?"... It was then that I noticed the 3.07 patch on the website was for the h6300 series.

Downloaded... Installed... GPS Bliss

Thanks guys... Top help from a top forum. I'll be coming back here again :D

glennog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Posts: 5

IT WAS YOU!!!

I found the original post which brought it to my attention - and it was one of yours, DavidW.

Now, why didn't I see it in the first post you made to me? 'Cause I'm a dozy sod, of course.

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