GPS on MIO A701

Hi,

we have developped an application to mesure surfaces using GPS (no, it is
not very precise, but it gives an idea of the size en shape).
Until now, all pockets with all kind of GPS antennes worked (Bluetooth, CF,
built-in).

A client has bought a Mio A701 with built-in GPS antenna, and we are not
able to get it working. Does anyone have an idea why it doesn't work?
We already tried all communication ports.

Does it use the NMEA standaard?


Greetings,
Wim

sanderboele
Mon Apr 03 07:36:32 CDT 2006

I believe it does, when I install TomTom navigator on it, I choose
"different NMEA" and it works.

You may get it to work if you fiddle with the COM port settings.

ICE
Mon Apr 03 09:48:20 CDT 2006

Yes, Tomtom works fine in his case too.
But I can't get it working with our application...



<sanderboele@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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>I believe it does, when I install TomTom navigator on it, I choose
> "different NMEA" and it works.
>
> You may get it to work if you fiddle with the COM port settings.
>

Ian
Fri Apr 07 07:53:58 CDT 2006

Yes, it uses NMEA
I've got a Mio A701 and the wce500 GPS c# example code works fine,
along with several other examples.
Under GPS settings on the mio I've got 'Manage GPS automatically'
ticked and am using port 4.

Here's a bit of a NMEA log from VisualGPSce if it helps -
$GPGGA,124854.000,5145.0518,N,00014.4643,W,1,04,11.4,98.4,M,47.0,M,,0000*4F
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.4,11.4,1.0*31
$GPGSV,3,1,11,20,84,249,25,11,54,135,20,17,47,283,33,24,43,293,29*77
$GPGSV,3,2,11,01,42,060,,23,34,176,22,25,17,087,23,14,08,034,14*7F
$GPGSV,3,3,11,04,04,294,16,13,04,194,,28,02,244,*41
$GPRMC,124854.000,A,5145.0518,N,00014.4643,W,1.70,202.46,070406,,,A*7A
$GPGGA,124855.000,5145.0504,N,00014.4652,W,1,04,11.3,98.3,M,47.0,M,,0000*43
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.4,11.3,1.0*36
$GPRMC,124855.000,A,5145.0504,N,00014.4652,W,2.37,197.58,070406,,,A*76
$GPGGA,124856.000,5145.0494,N,00014.4666,W,1,04,11.3,98.6,M,47.0,M,,0000*4A
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.4,11.3,1.0*36
$GPRMC,124856.000,A,5145.0494,N,00014.4666,W,2.71,219.31,070406,,,A*72
$GPGGA,124857.000,5145.0484,N,00014.4691,W,1,04,11.3,99.2,M,47.0,M,,0000*47
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.3,11.3,1.0*31
$GPRMC,124857.000,A,5145.0484,N,00014.4691,W,3.80,217.81,070406,,,A*70
$GPGGA,124858.000,5145.0468,N,00014.4707,W,1,04,11.3,99.4,M,47.0,M,,0000*42
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.3,11.3,1.0*31
$GPRMC,124858.000,A,5145.0468,N,00014.4707,W,4.25,215.07,070406,,,A*77
$GPGGA,124859.000,5145.0448,N,00014.4719,W,1,04,11.3,99.3,M,47.0,M,,0000*49
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.3,11.3,1.0*31
$GPGSV,3,1,11,20,84,249,19,11,54,135,22,17,47,283,33,24,43,293,30*72
$GPGSV,3,2,11,01,42,060,,23,34,176,21,25,17,087,23,14,08,034,15*7D
$GPGSV,3,3,11,04,04,294,16,13,04,194,,28,02,244,*41
$GPRMC,124859.000,A,5145.0448,N,00014.4719,W,4.54,212.46,070406,,,A*7F
$GPGGA,124900.000,5145.0431,N,00014.4735,W,1,04,11.2,99.0,M,47.0,M,,0000*46
$GPGSA,A,3,20,17,24,11,,,,,,,,,11.3,11.2,1.0*30
$GPRMC,124900.000,A,5145.0431,N,00014.4735,W,4.51,212.57,070406,,,A*77