Hi All, Can anyone point me to configuration instructions for configuring Xastir rand GPSMan to connect to a Garmin Rino 530HCx and conduct autopolling of other Rinos in the field? I had written the list awhile back hoping to configure Xastir to be able to poll the location from Garmin Rinos in the field as well as APRS enabled amateur band transceivers in the field and display these locations on a laptop at the incident command post to support search and rescue team operations. With your help, especially that of Lee Bengston, Craig Anderson and Art Botterell, I had Xastir up and running last year and was able to see these units in the field display on the laptop. Unfortunately I suffered a hard drive failure just before we moved and now I am having trouble getting this up and running again despite referring to the notes I had taken from the previous working configuration about a year ago. I can forward these detailed configuration notes with screen shots if necessary.
Hardware: Fujitsu T4210 Windows XP tablet, Garmin 530HCx transceiver (USB connector) attached to tablet with similar Rino units in the field Software: Oracle Virtual Box installed on Windows XP tablet, Virtual Machine running Debian Linux, Xastir version 2.0.1 that Lee Bengston kindly built about one year ago. I have also installed the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack to enable USB 2.0 support. Progress to date: I seem to have configured the USB 2.0 support okay and can get GPSMan to talk to the Rino consistently. I am using the Garmin USB protocol. I can see waypoints from the Rino display on the map in GPSman. The points though do NOT consistently transfer to Xastir and display on the Xastir map. In the Xastir "File->Configure->Timing" dialog I set the option for "RINO -> Objects Interval" for 2 minutes. My Rinos are named with names that begin with "APRS." These waypoints transferred once to Xastir with the usual APRS prefix chopped off. I see GPS man come up every two minutes as Xastir asks for these at the interval specified under the timing menu and the Rino screen beeps and says "transfer complete" at this interval but the waypoints do not seem to refresh as the position of the Rino in the field changes. I don't see the Garmin unit attached to the Xastir machine transmit an RF polling request either to query for the other Garmin units new position packets at the two minute interval. Even if I manually hit the PTT on the rinos in the field which transmits the new position packets to the Rino at the basestation, the coordinates do not update to the new position and they are shown as static waypoints on the map. Finally, I can't get Xastir to read the GPS location from the attached Rino. It keeps giving me sats/view 00 fix invalid in GPS status. I was never able to get this working before either. I am now with Idaho Mountain Search and Rescue and have configured both GPSMan, Xastir and the Garmin to use NAD27 CONUS datum and display UTM coordinates as that is the local standard here. Not sure if this may be goofing things up somehow but that is the only difference in configuration that I have made. It wouldn't seem that this would be relevant. Any ideas? Thanks, Anthony Mascola _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
