Is it me or is the SIRF driver rubbish compared to NMEA

Ice_coffee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 16

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 !!!

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject:

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
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Ice_coffee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 16

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 !!! Rolling Eyes

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

so, slap yourself on the hand and stop experimenting.
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Ice_coffee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 16

, !!!!! you know its curiosity that killed the cat !! fortunatly I aint a cat Smile

Dave · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:37 am Post subject:

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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