No logging with TT5?

Beejam · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 25

I had TT3 on my old PPC and on the GPS page there was an option to "record" the GPS feed which effectively meant you could log your journey.

Now with TT5 on my Ipaq HX3715 with a Globalsat BT338 there is no option to do this.

Is there a way I can get this functionality back? I tried using the old TT3 GPS software on top on my present installation with no success.

mikealder · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:57 am Post subject:

If you want to run two applications at the same time and both need to access the GPS data then you need something like Fransons GPS gate, then you can run TT5 and another program that will give you data logging capability, I have tried this with GPS Speed Sentry, Memory Map OS, and the TT GPS driver vs2,06 (avail from the downloads section of this site) - Mike

Beejam · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 25

Thanks Mike...I'll have a play around.

One problem I can see though is that in the "TomTom GPS" software from TT3 that I'd like to use there didn't seem to be any GPS options that allowed me to connect my BT338.

Beejam · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 25

PS. Mike...didn't do Acoustics at Southampton did you? :D

mikealder · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

No didn't do Southampton, but I am at the NEC at the moment, in the TT3 GPS driver select NMEA 0893 v2 Bluetooth and then assign your outgoing port in the second box - Mike

barryd · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

GPSGate lets you write the GPS data to a log file at the same time as outputting it for one or more applications to use. So you don't actually need another app to do the logging. It can also play back this log data for other apps to use, in forward or reverse at the speed you choose - the apps just connect as normal and see the "replay" GPS data.
The benefit of GPS Speed Sentry logging is that will allow you to create much smaller log files with only the data fields you're interested in, rather than the full NMEA data stream which soon becomes rather a big log file.
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mikealder · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

Barry, This was a point I hadn't overlooked at the time, and to be honest didn't know it existed Embarassed

- I only ever use the GPSGate to share the port - Will bear this in mind for future though as it will reduce the processor overhead, two progs vs Three - thanks for the tip - Mike

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