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TheReverend
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Basic GPS Help please...

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Hi Gents,

I have a Garmin Rino GPS, connected to my Windows 7 PC via USB. I'm not getting any location details from Vistumbler. As a starting point, does anyone know how I can identify which com port my Garmin is plugged into?

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Do you still have the software package that came with your garmin?
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Garmin and computers are a little tricky, (If I remember correctly from an older Garmin device I used to use) if your device is in PC mode (or something like that) You should see it in your device manager in windows.
There is also an output mode that may need to be set (this is how the GPS data is sent from the device to the computer, if it is not formatted correctly Vistumbler will not know how to read the data.).

(I'm not on my Win7 computer but it looks very similar to this XP screenshot that I took)
As you can see there is a (COM#) this tells you the comm port that the Device is using.
If your Garmin GPS is detected correctly, it should have a (COM#)
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Hi,

if you need some basic information about your GPS-Output you can try "FreeGPS". You can find that tool under http://www.free-gps.de/.
It detects the COM-Port automatically.

Not a big deal but works fine.
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