On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: > Does anyone have opinions as to whether the Garmin Astro unit might work > with Xastir? What questions could I ask Garmin Tech Support that would > confirm or deny this?
If the Astro setup is anything like the RINO's, then the only way for Xastir to get anything from the system is to query the GPS side of things regularly to get the waypoint information. That's how we do it with the RINO's. There was some talk a while back on another forum about trying to reverse-engineer the on-the-air protocol used by the RINO's, but I don't know if anyone ever pursued that to completion. Garmin, like most other commercial manufacturers, wishes to protect their intellectual property and not publish such things. It'd be really cool though if using a scanner and a soundcard one could decode the little buggers. -- Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
