Beau,
It does matter, since not all GPS units use the same settings for for
baud rate, data bits, parity, stop bits and handshake. Although the
NMEA 0183 standard is common, it is by no means the only standard that
GPS units use.
Since they have both differential (big, expensive "professional" type
units) and handheld ("consumer grade" units), it is possible that they
use more than one standard.
I will send them an email tonight, just to be sure.
Cheers,
Lorin
PS. I will upload my first attempt at serial comms in C# in a
minute..... getting there, but not finished yet! If i've done anything
thats a bit weird/not good in C# feel free to point it out!!
On Tue 25/08/09 21:28 , Beau <treppb01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Howdy .
I was fairly sure that GPS was a kinda standard, eg it shouldn't
matter
on the model.
Cheers,
Beau
Lorin Tauss wrote:
> Hi Beau and all,
>
> I've been looking at the serial comms issue, looking promising.
Just
> trying to get my head around C# though....... what "project type"
> should I be creating in visual studio? I've restricted it to using
> .NET 2.0 just incase (anyone know what the Archer uses? can it be
> upgraded to 3.5?)
>
> Anyway, THE IMPORTANT BIT: I need to know what brand and model of
> differential GPS Eureka is using? Also the brand and models of any
> other (handheld) units they want to use with our system. I need to
> know this so I can work out which serial standard they are using.
>
> Should I email sam/Iliya about this? or do you want to liase
with them
> for me? I just need to know this info ASAP so I can get started
on a
> proper comms library type thing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lorin
>
>
>
