BurnDuck Posted July 17, 2004 Posted July 17, 2004 Do you know if i can connect them together, in order to use the Legend as a GPS receiver?? THANK YOU FOR REPLYING MY MSG!!! PS: I'm using PPC: ASUS A716, (or A620 is more or less the same) Quote
+welch Posted July 17, 2004 Posted July 17, 2004 (edited) um... Isn't your legend already a gps receiver? Do you have the cable for the legend? (new ones come with this, if you don't have it, you can buy another one off ebay from gpsgeek for ~$12) edit: Well maybe more than 12, If they ship to Hong Kong. Edited July 17, 2004 by welch Quote
+cameltrekor Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 the two sources I found were this one and that one. You will need to check for your combo. I have not used either one but heard that one is better. Quote
+as77 Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Apparently there is no commercially available cable to connect the Asus with the Etrex, but you could make one. Look at your Etrex-PC cable and your Asus-PC cable (serial cable is needed, USB won't work) and find out how you can connect them. Quote
+NightPilot Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Pfranc sells cables, but you'll need to find a pfranc who makes custom cables to get one for an Asus. Or you can just buy connectors from pfranc.com and make your own, if you're at all handy with a soldering iron. It's not that hard to do, if you already have a cable that will connect to your PDA - you just cut off the old USB or whatever type plug it has and put the eTrex plug in its place. You'll have to find the pinouts for the PPC, though, and I don't know where that might be available. Google is the first place to go for that. The eTrex pinouts are on the Garmin site and in your owners manual, as well as on the pfranc site. Quote
BurnDuck Posted July 23, 2004 Author Posted July 23, 2004 the gratest problem is that my PPC uses USB interface while eTerx uses serial... i have a road map in PPC but none in etrex, so i wanted to use it as a receiver... let me check it out if it is avaliable in those web sites... Quote
BurnDuck Posted July 23, 2004 Author Posted July 23, 2004 the problem is that my ppc uses usb to connect 2 my computer, ao... great problem~ Quote
+dogastus Posted July 23, 2004 Posted July 23, 2004 the problem is that my ppc uses usb to connect 2 my computer, ao... great problem~ I'm not familiar with the PDA you are using, but I looked on their website and saw these accessories. If you look, they do a serial cable, so if you get one of those, you should just be able to connect it to the serial cable on your GPSr. You might need a null modem adaptor between the two cables to swap the TX and RX pins. Quote
+NightPilot Posted July 24, 2004 Posted July 24, 2004 (edited) My Palm also connects to my PC via USB, but the connector on the Palm is also a serial port. It should be the same for a PPC, the connector can function as either a serial or USB port, depending on how the cable connector is wired. If it can't do that, then it's a crippled PDA, but I'll bet it can. Edited July 24, 2004 by NightPilot Quote
BurnDuck Posted July 28, 2004 Author Posted July 28, 2004 i saw a "Serial Cable" in that (ASUS) site... do anyone of u know, can that PPC use the interface as a "PORT"??? eg, port 1, 2, 3... so that it can read my GPS's NIME information...? do anyone of you have this kind of experience?? THANK YOU SO MUCH!~~ Quote
+JeepCachr Posted July 28, 2004 Posted July 28, 2004 (edited) Does your Asus have bluetooth? If so this is all you need - Etrex to bluetooth connector If it doesn't have bluetooth can you add it to it? Do you have an expansion slot? Edited July 28, 2004 by JeepCachr Quote
+as77 Posted July 28, 2004 Posted July 28, 2004 do anyone of u know, can that PPC use the interface as a "PORT"??? eg, port 1, 2, 3... so that it can read my GPS's NIME information...? Yes, it's a standard COM port for the PPC. It can use it without any problems. BTW that's NMEA. Quote
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