Re: Updates to the Garmin communication protocol documentation

From: Hugh Scott (me_at_home.net)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:29:42 -0500

In article <crhds901trr@enews1.newsguy.com>, Seagull
<seagull@aracnet.com> wrote:

> Alan Burnstine <nospam@thetechguru.net> wrote:
> > I don't know when this was posted. It is dated 9/16 in the document, but I
> > am sure it was not on Garmin's web site in November. Anyway, they have
> > updated the protocol specification document to include both the serial and
> > USB specificatoins in one document, and now include a C++ sample of
> > connecting to and extracting data from a Garmin USB capable receiver.
>
> I've looked over this new document (and the ones that were posted in the
> past). The overall quality of the documentation is pretty lousy, but there
> is enough there to write a working application if you are patient. The
> key point is that the protocol is the same whether you are speaking serial
> or USB. The only difference is which medium you are communicating on.
>
>
> Cheers,
> -+JLS

Has anyone successfully used Visual Basic to communicate with Garmin
units using the USB port? 

-- 
Hugh Scott  
Augusta, GA       WGS84   N33° 32.495   W82°04.389

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