USB ANT+ stick under Linux?

[Claus Assmann]

I played around with a USB ANT+ stick (under OpenBSD Unix), but I
couldn't get it to work. Is this supported under Linux? It seems a
USB ANT+ stick is using a serial connection under Linux instead of
libusb. After I modified that, GC seems to find a device but it
doesn't show any data under the setup. I hacked the source further
to allow other sticks than just Garmin (this was a "Silicon Labs -
Fitbit Base Station" a colleague had available), but still no data
shows up. Before I buy a Garmin USB stick I would like to know
whether this is actually supposed to work under Linux.

[Joshua Beals]

I don't know anything about OpenBSD but my Garmin USB stick works great under both Ubuntu Linux on my desktop computer and Raspbian on my raspberry pi (both Debian based Linux distros but that shouldn't matter).  I didn't have to do anything special to make either one work.

[G Coco]

I have it working under Fedora. Pretty sure you need to make sure that you have libusb 0.1.12 library installed as that is what GC needed to talk to the USB dongle.

Haven't tried on OpenBSD so your mileage will vary.

[Claus Assmann]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013, G Coco wrote:
> I have it working under Fedora. Pretty sure you need to make sure that you
> have libusb 0.1.12 library installed as that is what GC needed to talk to
> the USB dongle.

Thanks for the confirmation, I ordered a Garmin USB stick so I can
do some more testing and hopefully get it working.

> Haven't tried on OpenBSD so your mileage will vary.

Yes, I had to make some changes to get the usb code compile, see
some earlier mails about a basic patch -- with some more changes
the Fitbit USB stick is detected under OpenBSD.

[dirty...@googlemail.com]

I tried using a Garmin Ant+ stick with Golden Cheetah v3 on Raspberry Pi a while back, but couldn't get it to work. 

I used the version that Joshua kindly shared on another post. It runs ok, but when it comes to the Native Ant+ search my usb stick doesn't show up as an option. It looks like it's only searching a COM port and no option for usb.

Any ideas on how to get this working?

[Chris Cleeland]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:43 AM, <dirty...@googlemail.com> wrote:

I tried using a Garmin Ant+ stick with Golden Cheetah v3 on Raspberry Pi a while back, but couldn't get it to work. 

I used the version that Joshua kindly shared on another post. It runs ok, but when it comes to the Native Ant+ search my usb stick doesn't show up as an option. It looks like it's only searching a COM port and no option for usb.

Any ideas on how to get this working?

This sounds like what happened on non-Windows when I didn't have libusb properly set up.  On non-Windows, libusb is an archive library that gets linked into the executable, but I don't know if, on Windows, it goes into a .LIB or .DLL.  If it's a .DLL then you'd need to have it installed at run-time on the deployment system.

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Chris Cleeland

[Tom Weichmann]

Been using a Garmin stick on Linux for years.  No issues.

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