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Ice_coffee Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 16
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:01 pm Post subject: Is it me or is the SIRF driver rubbish compared to NMEA |
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As per the title, it seems that using the sirf driver with my X6 is a waste of time !!!it's slow and laggy where as the nmea driver is faultless !!! |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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this matches with other user's experience.
If you want a stable system, run NMEA at 4800. If you are adventurous and love it when things break and you can attempt to fix them, use SiRF at 57600 _________________ Lutz
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Ice_coffee Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:50 am Post subject: |
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I tried Sirf @ 57600 just out of curiosity !!! my HP2210 could not even receive any data from my GPS receiver @ this setting, not even the time pulse !!! |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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so, slap yourself on the hand and stop experimenting. _________________ Lutz
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Ice_coffee Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:38 am Post subject: |
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, !!!!! you know its curiosity that killed the cat !! fortunatly I aint a cat |
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Dave Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2003 Posts: 6460 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:37 am Post subject: |
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99.9% of apps are coded to either only accept an NMEA stream and not SiRF or they're fine tuned for NMEA and badly tuned for SiRF.
Also, couple this with a lot of GPS Manufacturers using different baud rates (a lot are now using SiRF 38400) you need to guess the correct setting for your GPS.
But even if you do use SiRF most applications will work better in NMEA mode (there are a few exclusions to this rule) but most of the main programs perfer NMEA over SiRF as a protocol. |
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