USB to RS-232 Serial Adapter Advice

On Feb 23, 12:24*pm, Tim Taylor wrote:
On Feb 23, 10:55*am, "Paul Remde" wrote:



Hi,

I have a friend that has an LX Colibri (the older model without a USB
connector) and he is having a tough time getting it connected to his new
laptop. *The manual I found online for the laptop does not show it having a
PC Card (PCMCIA card) slot or an ExpressCard slot.

I have had the best luck connecting to soaring instruments using either a PC
card serial port or an ExpressCard serial port.

I have not had any real success using a USB to RS-232 Serial adapter cable.
However, I have seen postings on this newsgroup from glider pilots that have
found USB to serial adapters that work well for them.

Please let me know if you have found a USB to Serial adapter that works well
for you with soaring instruments. *Please include the make and model #.

Thank you,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

I used a Belkin adapter with mixed results with the Colibri. *One of
the things to look at is the port that it gets assigned to. *The
Belkin would get assigned comm port 3 or 4 and SeeYou would only let
you have options of *0 and 1 so would not recognise the unit. *Wish
SeeYou would allow more port options. *I could hard reassign the ports
and make it work.

I ended up back with the serial cable, but my old laptop still had a
serial port.

Since this has gotten all geeky - has anybody tried the RS-232-to-
Bluetooth adapters on the sailplane instrument side and if so can
something like SeeYou output to the laptop's internal Bluetooth
adapter or do you need to go USB-to-RS-232-to-Bluetooth or USB-to-
Bluetooth on the PC side. It sounds lazy, but as a practical matter
I'd love to be able to upload tasks and download flights between
SeeYou and my flight computers from the airconditioned comfort of my
car. It makes it a lot easier to read the screen too.

BTW - I'm running SeeYou on a current generation 13" MacBook (with the
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics controller, but not the dual
controllers of the MacBook Pros). I'm running both Bootcamp and
Parallels Virtual Machine. Both are running Vista - mostly because
Best Buy was out of XP. Both configurations work great! Under
Parallels the 3-D playback with satellite terrain images starts to get
a little jerky with above about a dozen gliders - as good as my old
StinkPad. Bootcamp is faster, but lacks the convenience of Parallels.
It's also pretty darn stable - surprisingly so. I've not yet tried
hooking the Keyspan adapter, but it's good to know that the host OS
takes care of all of the monkey motion for you - thanks Darryl.

9B