Re: [Dorset] Garmin Sat Nav Registration & Up-dates
On Thursday 15 Oct 2015 17:41:50 C Wills wrote: > Just bought a Garmin Sat Nav and found I can't Register or Update it > using Linux! Very helpful 'Customer Support' returned my request for > advice as I tried Registering on their Web Site to no avail. Their reply > simply said Use Windows!! > Does anyone have a work around for this problem please as I don't have > anything with either Windows or Mac systems. Does anyone know if Garmin > software will run under Wine, as that could be a way forward? > I'm still in CH and hope to use it for the return trip via France > (usually come via Germany/Belgium). > Hope to make next meeting if I can get a clashing meeting moved. Clive, The short answer is; "it depends". I don't use a Garmin Satnav so I can only make assumptions. For my Mio Satnav, I ended up having to run Windows XP under VMWare to run the updater, but I was able to register the device using a Linux browser (I can't remember what it was now, but probably Firefox at the time). Anyway, wine supports Internet Explorer, so if the updater is web based, that may be what you need. If you have to run a dedicated windows executable then you might still get away with it under wine. WineHQ gives mixed reports - https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application=4871[1] and https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version=7502[2] so I wouldn't hold my breath, but it might be worth a try. Getting wine to work for a particular App is a bit of a black art. Over the years I've managed to use it for a number of tools, (including some of our own products :-) , but with others, such as the Mio S/W mentioned above and my efergy energy monitor, I never got it to work. If you do decide to try it, remember to install winetricks and to use winecfg to emulate the right Windows version. You may also need to explicitely install .NET under wine to get any life out of the Garmin updater. Good luck and we'll see you in November assuming that your Garmin doesn't route you to Poland! -- Terry Coles [1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application=4871 [2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version=7502 -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
[Dorset] Garmin Sat Nav Registration & Up-dates
Hi All Just bought a Garmin Sat Nav and found I can't Register or Update it using Linux! Very helpful 'Customer Support' returned my request for advice as I tried Registering on their Web Site to no avail. Their reply simply said Use Windows!! Does anyone have a work around for this problem please as I don't have anything with either Windows or Mac systems. Does anyone know if Garmin software will run under Wine, as that could be a way forward? I'm still in CH and hope to use it for the return trip via France (usually come via Germany/Belgium). Hope to make next meeting if I can get a clashing meeting moved. -- *C A Wills* /Supporting Linux Mint & Open Source/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
Re: [Dorset] Garmin Sat Nav Registration & Up-dates
Work-around: Use OpenStreetMap data. You can download pre-made files for Garmin GPSes from here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ You can either download an entire country, which is easy and you don't have to wait for it to be generated, or you can select the tiles you want from the map on that page and wait for the file to be created for you. If you can swap memory cards, connect to a computer while on your trip, or if your Garmin GPS allows multiple gmapsupp.img files on it then downloading the five(?) countries you need could be easiest. You want "osm_generic_gmapsupp.zip", and to extract the file to "/Garmin/gmapsupp.img" on an SD card or to the internal memory on the device, assuming it has a USB cable and acts as a mass storage device. There's more information here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download If you want a small country to test it on, Andorra is only 11MB uncompressed. France is 1.1GB compressed. You're probably limited to 4GB per (uncompressed) file due to FAT32. -- Andrew. On 15/10/15 17:41, C Wills wrote: Hi All Just bought a Garmin Sat Nav and found I can't Register or Update it using Linux! Very helpful 'Customer Support' returned my request for advice as I tried Registering on their Web Site to no avail. Their reply simply said Use Windows!! Does anyone have a work around for this problem please as I don't have anything with either Windows or Mac systems. Does anyone know if Garmin software will run under Wine, as that could be a way forward? I'm still in CH and hope to use it for the return trip via France (usually come via Germany/Belgium). Hope to make next meeting if I can get a clashing meeting moved. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
