iPad Pro (USB-C) to Garmin 450t (mini USB)

[+kurchian]

Is it possible to send Lists and PQs that I have on my iPad Pro to my older Garmin (mini-USB)?

[+kunarion]

Not directly.  And Pocket Queries would first need to be unzipped.

 

There are threads around here that describe a way to do what you're asking, but the hardware, Apps, and the process have changed so much, you can't follow the old steps.  It basically involved finding an App that can unzip files and can connect to a wireless router, using a portable wifi router with a USB interface, then sending the GPX files to the USB drive and then to the Garmin.  The router needs to be the kind that connects by wifi both to the Internet and to the phone simultaneously.

 

I never got it fully working from my iPad.  I had some success using an Android phone.  I also had a kind of OTG setup on the Android, but it never worked... the file manager App didn't see the proper drive folders.  And iThings are especially restrictive about moving files around.

 

I've decided that if I wanted to send GPX files on-the-fly like that, I'd buy a pocket sized Windows PC, and eliminate a lot of extra steps.  There are relatively cheap PCs that may work.  Plus they could run GSAK and other useful software.

 

But I don't do that.  I load Lists and PQs in advance, covering my intended trip.  If it's in fact a spontaneous cache hunt beyond my loaded PQs, I may resort to loading new data onto my phone App only.  Maybe typing a few cache coordinates into the Garmin if necessary.

 

Good luck!

 

Edited January 12 by kunarion

[+Viajero Perdido]

If you have an iPad, maybe you have an iPhone?

 

Load Cachly (geocaching app of choice in that ecosystem), park the Garmin, and don't look back!