beauxp Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Can you only use the usb data cable that came with this unit or will any 4 pin usb cable be ok to use? Quote Link to comment
SandyGarrity Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 No! You can use any cable. I plugged it into another cable and it worked fine. Quote Link to comment
beauxp Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 Can you only use the usb data cable that came with this unit or will any 4 pin usb cable be ok to use? Great, thanks for the info. Did not want to fry my unit Quote Link to comment
+GeekBoy.from.Illinois Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Can you only use the usb data cable that came with this unit or will any 4 pin usb cable be ok to use? Great, thanks for the info. Did not want to fry my unit Not to pick nits (or ticks for that matter), the USB cable is actually a 5-pin cable, not a 4 -pin cable. There is a 4-pin mini-B cable, and that one won't work with the Garmin GPSmap 60CSx. Quote Link to comment
John E Cache Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Can you only use the usb data cable that came with this unit or will any 4 pin usb cable be ok to use? Great, thanks for the info. Did not want to fry my unit Not to pick nits (or ticks for that matter), the USB cable is actually a 5-pin cable, not a 4 -pin cable. There is a 4-pin mini-B cable, and that one won't work with the Garmin GPSmap 60CSx. Speaking of nits and too much information, my Garmin came with a 4 wire cable. A big 4 pin connector on one end and a 5 pin mini-B on the other. On the mini-B one pin is not hooked up according to the Wikipedia. Also, from the description if a mini-A is plugged in the unit may act as a master. I wonder if the 60csx would act as a master a spew out NEMA sentences. Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 On the mini-B one pin is not hooked up according to the Wikipedia. Also, from the description if a mini-A is plugged in the unit may act as a master. I wonder if the 60csx would act as a master a spew out NEMA sentences. No and No. The Garmins do not implement USB OTG, so they aren't a master. They implement Garmin PVT (position velocity time) protocol on the USB line, not NMEA. (There is one fairly esoteric model of the handheld line that allegedly does enumerate one endpoint as a CDC/ACM device that provides NMEA data, but it's unique in the Garmin line in this regard.) Quote Link to comment
John E Cache Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 On the mini-B one pin is not hooked up according to the Wikipedia. Also, from the description if a mini-A is plugged in the unit may act as a master. I wonder if the 60csx would act as a master a spew out NEMA sentences. No and No. The Garmins do not implement USB OTG, so they aren't a master. They implement Garmin PVT (position velocity time) protocol on the USB line, not NMEA. (There is one fairly esoteric model of the handheld line that allegedly does enumerate one endpoint as a CDC/ACM device that provides NMEA data, but it's unique in the Garmin line in this regard.) Yes, I looked at my 60csx and the USB connector is the B only type. There is a plastic post in the middle that would block the plastic insert of the mini-A plug. I like wikipedia a lot. Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 That plastic post is there for a reason. The Garmins do not have the hardware or firmware features you're looking for. Quote Link to comment
John E Cache Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 That plastic post is there for a reason. The Garmins do not have the hardware or firmware features you're looking for. I got that from your first post, just confirming it was physically blocked too. I need to figure out how communicate with my PDA via the 60csx's NEMA/power connector, I guess. Quote Link to comment
+Red90 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 GPS Gate can work with a PPC and use the data from the USB cable. Quote Link to comment
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