Using Navman sleeve on Desktop PC

[Dave]

Checking back over some old email, I found this from a Pocket GPS Reader (Andrew White), and realised I hadn't published it yet to the site. Andrew said...



"I wanted to use the Navman as a GPS for my desktop PC (number of reasons!) so had a quick think about what would be involved, searching the web I found a useful piece of software called IrPass.



This is designed for passing serial data from the cradle in/out the ir port of your pocket pc. Using this, I changed the com port to my navman, and bingo, the deskpc with the serial cable to the cradle of my ipaq, thought it had a gps unit connected. Worked a treat.



So I then went one stage further, my iPAQ has Bluetooth built in, so I mapped a comport from my laptop to my iPAQ using Bluetooth (easy to do), then using IrPass I mapped the navman to the Bluetooth comport and another bingo, worked straight away.



So now I can extend the use of my Navman GPS sleeve to my laptop and desktop PC’s to run more software."

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