Re: Using eTrex with Google Earth
Jack Erbes
> Has anyone succeeded in connecting a garmin etrex to Google Earth?
>
> According to the GE help, you just attach the GPS as a USB or serial
> device, then tell GE that you have a garmin gps, and it will import
> waypoints, tracks etc, and presumably overlay them on the GE screen.
>
> I connect my etrex to my computer using a serial-to-usb converter.
> Fugawi recognises this as a device on COM9 with no problem but GE
> runs thru USB,COM1,COM2...COM20 without finding the device. What am
> I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
Have you tried changing the communications protocol? There are two
generally, Garmin and NMEA, and GE may be looking for the one you are
not using.
It is on the System > Interface menu.
Jack
OG
"hugh" <hu...@irnet.eu> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:55:29 -0400, Jack Erbes <jac...@midmaine.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Have you tried changing the communications protocol? There are two
>>generally, Garmin and NMEA, and GE may be looking for the one you are
>>not using.
>>
>>It is on the System > Interface menu.
>>
>>Jack
>
I think Jack's question was whether the eTrex Setup | Interface setting is
showing Garmin, rather than what options you have selected in GE.
Jack Erbes
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, as a matter of fact it was.
Jack
pmh
> Has anyone succeeded in connecting a garmin etrex to Google Earth?
>
> According to the GE help, you just attach the GPS as a USB or serial
> device, then tell GE that you have a garmin gps, and it will import
> waypoints, tracks etc, and presumably overlay them on the GE screen.
>
> I connect my etrex to my computer using a serial-to-usb converter.
The converter may be at fault. I have an etrex Legend HCX with
dedicated USB cable; I can communicate easily with Google Earth,
Terrain Navigator or USAPhotomaps.
The one annoyance I have found w/ GE is that I cannot download single
waypoints, i.e. those created since the last download. GE will take
all waypoints in the GPS and in create doubles of all previous
waypoints. In order to add newer waypoints, I have to delete all
previous GPS files & then download.
Mike Coon
As far as I recollect the Garmin protocol has no function to download single
waypoints. Except that if you download a route you only get the waypoints in
that route. Worth a try?
Mike.
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pmh
That may well be. But with the other programs, I am offered a dialogue-
style box (presumably generated by the "client" prgram) from which I
can choose one or more discreet waypoints, and they need not be
contiguous in time or space; there is no unnecessary duplication in
any of my mapping programs except with GE. Due to the nature of my
guiding to specific trout pools along certain streams, there is little
need for plotting routes; for that I have trail tape which serves
admirably.
BikerRay
> Has anyone succeeded in connecting a garmin etrex to Google Earth?
>
> According to the GE help, you just attach the GPS as a USB or serial
> device, then tell GE that you have a garmin gps, and it will import
> waypoints, tracks etc, and presumably overlay them on the GE screen.
>
> I connect my etrex to my computer using a serial-to-usb converter.
> runs thru USB,COM1,COM2...COM20 without finding the device. What am
> I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
Why would you use a converter? GE can read a USB or COM port
connection.
As a side note, I have found some devices that aren't recognized if
they go through a (admittedly cheapo) USB hub.
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Ray
Klatch
"BikerRay" <westca...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Ray
eTrex - no usb, PC - no COM port. Hence, converter.
pmh
> "BikerRay" <westcarle...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>
>
> eTrex - no usb, PC - no COM port. Hence, converter.
You can find USB cables on ebay; a quick search for "Garmin etrex"
under electronics\GPS\accessories\chargers & cables gave 84 hits. The
appropriate cable will power your unit, saving batteries, and provide
2-way data transfer.
PMH
Klatch
"pmh" <pmhi...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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PMH
eTrex, eTrexH - NO USB, serial only.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=144&pID=8705#specsTab
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=167&pID=6403#specsTab
pmh
>
> eTrex - no usb, PC - no COM port. Hence, converter.
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-PC-data-Cable-for-Garmin-Etrex-
GPS-NEW_W0QQitemZ370252610208QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?
hash=item5634c67aa0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
There are at least two other sellers of USB data cables for the Garmin
etrex. Of the three I looked at, none is over $20, shipping included.
PMH
Klatch
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-PC-data-Cable-for-Garmin-Etrex-
GPS-NEW_W0QQitemZ370252610208QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?
hash=item5634c67aa0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
PMH
Your link doesn't work, but nonetheless I am finished with this thread. All
the other models have a USB connection, but not the base models eTrex
(discontinued) and etrexH do not. The OP said he has an eTrex. I gave you
the links to the Garmin site so you could see the specs for yourself, but
you choose to believe something from eBay.
Craig Wallace
That's essentially just a serial etrex cable combined with a USB/serial
adapter into a single cable.
So it will still appear as a (virtual) COM port, and need some sort of
drivers for the USB/serial adapter.
Though it is maybe more convenient than having to use a separate
USB/serial converter, and is useful in that it also powers the etrex.
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Craig Wallace
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