GPS Problems

[Mikey Gribble]

I had gps gate installed on my new laptop so I can share my gps between XM, grlevel3 and delorme. It wasn't working great and for some reason it decided to quit working. Now the gps shows up on xm without me even pushing the gps button on the toolbar on Mobile threatnet, but when I try to open it in grlevel3 it doesn't show the com port the gps is on as an option to select. On delorme it says it doesn't recognize the com port. I unistalled and reinstalled following the same instructions as last time located here http://franson.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8252
This is pissing me off to no end. I had the thing working fine then it just up and quits. I never did anything that should have caused that. Does anybody know what the problem might be?

 

[cedwards]

I had one GPS puck that came up as a different com port every time it was plugged in. Thus, I would have to go into the settings on GPS gate and change that every time.
Is is possible that your GPS connection was bumped then came on at a different com port (The one your XM is using) Then it wouldn't be available to GPSgate.

 

[Mark Blue]

One thing about GPSGate that I've experienced firsthand is even when you have it configured and working properly for one session with all of your applications, the next time you shutdown and boot up you will have to "wake up" GPSGate for lack of a better way to put it.

After I get my GPS puck connected to both a satellite and my computer via Bluetooth, I right click the GPSGate icon in the system tray, select "Settings" from the alternate context menu, then from there I select the "Setup Wizard" button. Without doing anything I simply cancel out of the Setup Wizard and the icon goes green meaning GPSGate is locked on to a signal and is receiving data.

I don't know why I have to do this, but I do every single time I boot up. This may be the only thing standing in your way Mikey so give it a try, especially since you had everything working at one time.

 

[Brandon Jenkins]

FWIW I had the Delorme puck and had endless issues with GPSGate "falling asleep" to the point that I ordered a GlobalSat BU-353 to replace it. But before I changed pucks someone pointed out that it is more stable to run the serial emulator by itself and cut GPSGate completely out of the equation. Just plug in the puck, turn on the emulator, configure all 3 virtual serial ports allowed in serial emulator and then fire up and configure the programs that will be using those virtual ports. Worked like a charm with my Delorme puck (although I still opted to switch to the GlobalSat).

There just seems to be a hate/hate relationship between the serial emulator and GPSGate, so they need to be seperated

 

[Mikey Gribble]

thanks for all the help. I am going to go back through it tomorrow and try some of what you guys said.
I made sure gps gate was open and running when I was out there the other day. I kept checking the com port the gps was on and trying to match it up with the setting on grlevel3, but it never showed that port as being available. Like I mentioned before I finally clicked on port 5 even though the gps was on 4 and it somehow worked.
Well on the way home I started shutting down programs and delorme street atlas was the final one I was closing and all of a sudden the damn thing starts working magically. The gps icon popped up and worked fine. So I opened back up my other programs and figued out I could get it to work if I only had one program open. Then I went in and opened the programs with delorme first since that is the most important thing I need gps for and it worked there, so next I opened grlevel3 and it worked there and finally I opened XM and it worked there too. I don't know if it was the order I opened them or what. It makes absolutely no sense. It is seriously amazing. It worked fine last week, then quits working for no reason and then starts magically working again. I still need to get it working with the streaming video application I use so I'm going to work on that tomorrow. I'm sure that will be an adventure. thanks again for your help. I'll let you know if it bombs out again.

 

[Scott Hammel]

One thing about GPSGate that I've experienced firsthand is even when you have it configured and working properly for one session with all of your applications, the next time you shutdown and boot up you will have to "wake up" GPSGate for lack of a better way to put it.

After I get my GPS puck connected to both a satellite and my computer via Bluetooth, I right click the GPSGate icon in the system tray, select "Settings" from the alternate context menu, then from there I select the "Setup Wizard" button. Without doing anything I simply cancel out of the Setup Wizard and the icon goes green meaning GPSGate is locked on to a signal and is receiving data.

I don't know why I have to do this, but I do every single time I boot up. This may be the only thing standing in your way Mikey so give it a try, especially since you had everything working at one time.

I had to do this same thing probably 3 or 4 times when chasing on Monday. Very odd as it worked perfectly for me last year...