Spotter Network and Delorme

[Gerard Jebaily]

Has anybody had any success at using a Delorme GPS with Spotter Network? SN asks for a com port which i tried coms 1-7 and i don't know if and how to get SN and the GPS to communicate. SN's forum didnt have any information on GPS issues.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

You should be able to find out the COM port by looking in your device manager on the computer.

 

[Hank Baker]

I use Delorme with SN, I heard some folks had trouble with GPS gate but downloaded the free Delorme serial emulator and that got it working for them. I use the Delorme serial emulator and don't have any issues.

 

[Bob Schafer]

I first tried downloading the Delorme splitter and using it with my Garmin and Vista. It said it was for Delorme GPS units, but I thought "Hell, it'll probably work with any GPS unit, and it's free".

Bad idea. Blue screen of death/restore your new computer to a previous time/date for the first time when you never had a lick of trouble with it before bad idea. You have been warned!!

I have also learned to not boot my computer with the Garmin connected and powered. I have to use a serial/USB adapter, too, so maybe that's the issue there, but either way, I have to wait to plug the GPS in after the computer is already booted, even though it's to a USB port.

 

[Jayson Prentice]

I just tested all of my stuff out yesterday, used the Delorme Serial Emulator with their GPS and Street Atlas. Had the street atlas, GR3 and spotter network all running and in perfect order...

Once you get the serial emulator working then you can tell it which port to send data through and you should have no trouble finding the right one.

 

[David Drummond]

I am using the Delorme Emulator with the Delorme little yellow puck GPS. You have to look at the ports that are made available by the emulator by right clicking on it in the activity bar down in the right corner of windows. You can set different ports. It's working great with several pieces of software on Vista for me EXCEPT Spotter Network.

It takes me several tries to get spotter network to connect to one of the GPS ports it creates. When it doesn't, VISTA BOSDs out and reboots itself. Even when I do get one that works, and the end of the day when I click to disconnect itself from the GPS it also BOSDs and reboots.

I have reported this to Tyler as a bug on his forum.


Now before when I had Windows XP, it worked perfectly every time!

 

[Gerard Jebaily]

I did what you said and DLed delorme serial emulator. It works GREAT! Thanks so much guys!

 

[Jayson Prentice]

David, I never ran into your problem when trying it out yesterday. I did notice however that the emulator didn't like to auto-connect so it only worked when I started up the emulator after the GPS got a connection.

The spotternetwork did work without a problem, no errors on my end. You aren't running the 64-bit version of Vista are you David?

 

[David Drummond]

no just the 32. Never had any issues with the emulator. All the other programs talk to it ok, It's just the SN client doing that. AT first I thought it was a port conflict, but no manner of rearranging stopped it.

 

[Jayson Prentice]

That's fairly weird on why just SN would do that and no other programs working with the emulator would. If I run into that problem I'll let you know, but for now I don't think I have anything of use for you to help ya out... Sorry

 

[David Drummond]

yeah it is weird. At first I thought it was just a vista glitch, but I can recreate the problem the same way every time, and it's the only program causing a BOSD right now

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Hmmm, I'm just trying to set this up and GR3 won't see it. Tried the emulator out to 2 and Street Atlas sees it fine and works. Then shut off Street Atlas since I knew that route worked. Then put GR3 to port 2, and says the same thing as the other tries "waiting for data".

 

[Jeff Snyder]

David,

Just a couple of things to check:

1. Make sure the DeLorme serial emulator is set to NMEA for the port you're using with SN
2. Ensure that the Baud Rate in SN is set to 9600 (the default for DeLorme serial emulator, I believe)

I run GR3, SN, and StreetAtlas via the serial emulator with no problems on my laptop (Vista 32bit).

 

[David Drummond]

Yeah, been down all those checks. Even uninstalled/reinstalled both the SN and the emulator.

I found a work around anyway. My Sprint card has a built in GPS receiver (darn good one I might add, even gets the signals inside the house). I set SN to use that GPS instead and it works fine every time. Go figure...

 

[CraigFisher]

Mike, I have the same problem. Street Atlas works great! Gr isn't picking it up, have tried like you did with asigning GR to port 2 - still a no-go. If you get something figured out, ket me know.