Hi Ignacio I'm not familiar with the GPSTM tool, trying to run it here generates exception errors, but from what I see when it's trying to boot it's much the same format as Trimble's various other offerings. If you run Trimble GPS Monitor though, version 1.6 was the latest but 1.05 is fine too, and that doesn't connect there's likely to be a box showing "IDLE" in the bottom right hand corner of the displayed screen for that. If you right click that you should get a drop down menu with the top item "COM Port..." Left clicking that should bring up a small panel for selecting Com port and settings with a tick button for Auto-detect settings. If you select that tick button and hit OK it should run through all that standard options for baud rate and protocol etc and should hopefully find whatever it's set to at the moment. I've just tried this with an NTGS50AA that's been running with Lady Heather and it very quickly connected using TSIP at 9600-8-None-1. Once running in GPS monitor it's fairly straightforward to change settings to what you prefer, at least it is for appropriate Trimble GPS modules but I haven't tried using it to make changes with the NTGS50AA. I have observed though that Lady Heather can make other unexpected changes at times. I've been playing with some Trimble Resolution T and Resolution SMT modules recently, along with various different versions of Trimble GPS software as well as Lady Heather, and was losing settings, apparently at random, until I realised that Lady H was changing the format for output data such as position and altitude etc to alternative formats that GPS Monitor and Trimble Studio, for example wouldn't or couldn't display. It's easy enough to put them back, and once done they seem to survive different versions of Trimble software as well as power cycling etc etc, but when run with Lady H they reset again. Once aware of this I've just accomodated it and haven't bothered to investigate further, so it's quite possibly something in a config file that could be changed, but to be fair to Lady H, Trimbles own software isn't best behaved at times either. When running the NTGS50AA with GPS monitor just now I noticed the position data is greyed out, even though it still displays fine with Lady H, but I'm a bit more cautious about tempting to configure these with Trimble's software and much prefer running them with Lady H anyway. Regards Nigel GM8PZR In a message dated 18/01/2014 14:57:03 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
I have a NTGS50AA working with the Lady Heather last version which incorporate support for this board (Thanks Mask Sims). When I bought the board I used the Trimble utility GPS Monitor (GPSTM Commissioning Tool V1.5) to set it up and in the way knowing that it was previously working in Guatemala. This program uses COM1 or 2 with a fixed configuration of 19200, 7,Odd and 1stop bit. After using LH it seems that it changed the parameters to 9600.0.N,1 probably using an undocumented command and the board stores this configuration even if unpowered. But now I can't use the Trimble program because it refuses to connect, even it crashes when trying to connect at 19200 baud. Strangely it worked a couple of times when I was trying to command the leds in the panel but I don't know how it managed to change the baud rate. Does anybody know how to change the configuration of the board serial port, maybe an undocumented command? I have the manual but I don't find anything neither in the LH documentation. Regards, Ignacio _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
