USB GPS-Receiver with x86 WinCE 5.0 driver

Hi all,

I'm looking for a GPS-Receiver for my Windows CE 5.0 solution (x86).
There is only a usb port available. I've looking around on the
internet, but I haven't found any. I only found one with a Windows CE
ARM driver. I hope that someone knows such a GPS-Receiver

Thanks in advance

woutersteenbergen@hotmail.com wrote:

Altina, Holux, and Rikaline all sell cabled GPS receivers that use a
Mini Din-6 (PS/2) connector as an intermediate connector for a number of
different adapter cables. One of the adapter cables offered is for USB.

Jack


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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)

Unless you write your own software, what's the point of a cable. I can't
find any software that can work with Garmin's protocol - only NMEA.

Alan Morris.
With FS-720.

Alan Morris wrote:

Maybe I'm confused. Or maybe this won't work with Windows CD 5.0. What
I'm talking about will work on Pocket PC 2003 (Win CE 4.0?) and other
Windows PC operating systems.

You have a Loox FS720 PDA right? And are looking for a GPS receiver
that can attach to its USB port?

The receivers I mentioned above have a NMEA-0183 output (not Garmin).
NMEA-0183 is always RS-232 serial but I think that can be connected to
the USB port on your PDA as follows.

Here is an example of one of the receivers I mentioned from an auction
on eBay:

http://tinyurl.com/z254b

The cable from that receiver has a PS/2 connector on it. To use the
receiver you also need an adapter cable that will connect to the PS/2
connector and provide power for the receiver (5VDC) and also take the
NMEA data to a COM port. Note that auction lists a number of adapter
cables for different models of PDAs but not a USB adapter cable.

Here is another auction on eBay that is selling the PS/2 to USB adapter
cable that will go with the receiver above. This cable has a serial to
USB bridge molded into a housing on the cable:

http://tinyurl.com/n5oxk

The PS/2 to USB adapter cable also takes the 5V power from the USB port
and uses it to power the receiver. That is the reason that, unlike PDA
adapter cables, no DC adapter is needed to power the receiver.

I don't know anything about Win CE 5.0. But the earlier versions of Win
CE and the other Windows desktop PC O/S's create a virtual COM port when
the drivers for the serial to USB bridge in the adapter cable are
installed. And the nav application then gets the NMEA data from the
virtual COM port.

Does this help any?

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)

can't

Thanks Jack for a good reply. But it does not help me. I hope others have
found it useful.

Yes I have a Loox FS720 that has the normal USB port _and_ a HOST USB port.
When I bought my 2610, I found that without a serial port I could not
download the track log to a pocket Psion computer.

I bought the FS-720 and then discovered that no one supports Garmin USB
GPSrs on PPC.

Fortunately my old eMap connects directly to the serial port on the FS-720.

Saving a track log is one of the most important features for me. With a
2610 I can't set it's track log to stop and warn me when memory is full (as
on the 75), so at times I lose part on the log.

I also have to carry a large notebook that takes longer to boot than a Psion
takes to open, download the track log and close.

Hence why I'm looking for a better (Garmin) GPSr.

Such is progress (backwards!)

Thanks again Jack,

Alan Morris