I haven’t had much luck communicating with my new Forerunner in Linux. This morning I did a search on CPAN and found there was a garmin module (surprise surprise). Early indications are that it might be able to talk to the device…if the generic handler works. If not, I might have to look into what it takes to write a handler. This stuff isn’t my strong suit though.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use GPS::Garmin;
$gps = new GPS::Garmin( 'Port' => '/dev/ttyUSB0',
'Baud' => 9600,
);
ursula ~ # perl test.pl
Unknown product id 484, fallback to generic handler.
Did you go any further by now ? I’m about to receive my forerunner 305 and will try to have it working with Debian Etch.
Did you try http://fr201toolkit.sourceforge.net/ ?
Pierre, sorry I did not. I keep meaning to but I keep putting it off.
I don’t think I tried that package, but I will now. Thanks for the link. If I get anywhere with it I will post a new entry on this blog.
Good luck
Try Dave Bailey’s software , unload the “garmin_gps” module first I’ve used his software on Polar device for several years and also a cross platform program called “Sportstracker ” , just have to work out what to now with the xml produced by his new program.
http://code.google.com/p/garmintools/
Rick
Found a post relating success in getting the Forerunner 305 to work in GPSDrive:
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Garmin-Forerunner-305-compatibility-p6439562.html
He wasn’t successful in getting it to work with gpsd, but a developer in the thread seemed hopeful that it could be made to work.
Interesting. Thanks for the link. I am hoping to do something with all this info at some point in the near future.
Hi!
If you want use your garmin device with linux perhaps you like this software:
http://pytrainer.e-oss.net
I have been 1.5 years developing it (it is not finished yet) and it can show your record profiles in a graph, graphs stadistics, waypoint editor, show your tracks in the map (googlemap embed) ….
bye :)