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alevans Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Northwest England
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: Fortuna Clip-on GPS |
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Hi,
I have an Ipaq and a Fortuna Clip-on GPS which is currently use with TomTom.
Will Mapopolis work with this GPS unit?
The reason I ask is that this GPS uses SiRF rather than NMEA.
Regards
Al |
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Dave Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2003 Posts: 6460 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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The GPS is also NMEA 0183v2 compliant, so it will work. |
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alevans Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Northwest England
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Well I guess I have a problem!
I have TomTom 2 already installed and works fine.
I have followed the advice about removing TomTom GPS 2.08 so it doesn't hijack the BT.
I have a good fix on my Clip-On.
But when I set up Mapopolis with Port 6 and 38400 baud all I get is "Checking COM6" and then nothing! The Blue LED on the Clip-on flickers as it does with TT2, but seemingly no data available for Mapopolis! I have tried the Auto-detect function as well!
Does anybody have any thoughts?
many thanks |
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Dave Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2003 Posts: 6460 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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Is the GPS running in SiRF or NMEA ? If SiRF, try re-configuring for NMEA as most apps prefer NMEA. |
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SafeHarbor Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 14, 2003 Posts: 42 Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, Mapopolis will ONLY accept a NMEA stream.
Lamar @ mapopolis support _________________ Mapopolis support |
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alevans Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Northwest England
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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The Clip-on gps is seemingly providing both SiRF and NMEA correctly, as I can select either on TomTom2 and get a fix.
It's just really weird that Mapopolis can't seem see the data.
Reinstalling Mapopolis didn't help either!
Oh well!!! |
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SafeHarbor Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 14, 2003 Posts: 42 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:37 am Post subject: |
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Hi, again,
Mapopolis has customers using the Clip-On, so are you sure that you're actually setting it for an NMEA stream and using it in the standard mode? (Not the X-mode.) Also, note that you need a specific procedure to switch from one mode to the other, so please reference your documentation.
Lamar @ mapopolis _________________ Mapopolis support |
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alevans Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Northwest England
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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OK good news!!!
I have managed to get it to work!!!
It seems that sometimes regardless of the hardware switch on the Clip-on it starts in XT mode which doesn't have a NMEA data stream.
I have fiddled with it and hey presto.
The correct settings as as per the instruction leaflet COM 6 38400 baud.
Thanks everyone for their help. |
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jase Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Portsmouth - Hants
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Hi There
It seems i have the same problem. I recently upgraded to TT GPS 3.03.
On 3.00 it worked but i no longer have the driver for it.
n Mapopolis the bluetooth settings point to com4 however when i try to use com 6 it says GPS Port (Com 6 is not available.
I've tried flicking from st to xt and back to st again on my fortuna bt clip on but no joy. It works when i start the drive manually and it works with tom tom.
I'm off to the states in a couple of weeks and need to get it working.
Please help!!!
Cheers in advance
jase |
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jase Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Portsmouth - Hants
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: |
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got it working in the end thanks to lutz.
needed to use the outgoing com port.
jase |
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