Help needed with communication between a Colibri and IPAQ

Hi Tim,

I'm not sure if this will help, but you may want to try doing the flight log
download at 19200 baud. I seem to recall (maybe) that the Colibri sends GPS
data at 4800 baud but does flight log downloads at 19200 baud.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

"Tim Taylor" wrote in message
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I need help with getting a Colibri logger to communicate with an IPAQ.

I can get the Colibri to send data to the IPAQ to work with WinPilot
and I can get WinPilot to send a declaration to the Colibri, but I can
not get any software to work to allow me to download a flight from the
Colibri to the IPAQ.

System I am using:

Colibri, Hardware version 2.0, software version 3.00.
IPAQ 3950 (I have used two different IPAQ’s with same result).

I have wired the TX from the Colibri to the RX of the IPAQ and visa
versa.

The data flows fine from the Colibri to the IPAQ and has been tested
with WinPilot TTY and StrePla.

With WinPliot I can declare a flight to the Colibri. At 4800 baud on
both the Colibri beeps, shows connect at 4800 baud and the data
transfers.

With ConnectMe and ConnectLX (2.17) I get nothing or the software
locks up.

With StrePla Connect I get “connect at 4800 baud”, no beep from the
Colibri and the software does not recognize the logger is there.

With the serial cable and LXe I can upload and download to a Windows
XP computer without any problems.

Any help would be appreciated. Does anyone have a Colibri with
software 3.00 that is working to download the flights to a PDA?

On Feb 13, 2:49*pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:
Hi Tim,

I'm not sure if this will help, but you may want to try doing the flight log
download at 19200 baud. *I seem to recall (maybe) that the Colibri sends GPS
data at 4800 baud but does flight log downloads at 19200 baud.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

"Tim Taylor" wrote in message

...
I need help with getting a Colibri logger to communicate with an IPAQ.

I can get the Colibri to send data to the IPAQ to work with WinPilot
and I can get WinPilot to send a declaration to the Colibri, but I can
not get any software to work to allow me to download a flight from the
Colibri to the IPAQ.

System I am using:

Colibri, Hardware version 2.0, software version 3.00.
IPAQ 3950 *(I have used two different IPAQ’s with same result).

I have wired the TX from the Colibri to the RX of the IPAQ and visa
versa.

The data flows fine from the Colibri to the IPAQ and has been tested
with WinPilot TTY and StrePla.

With WinPliot I can declare a flight to the Colibri. *At 4800 baud on
both the Colibri beeps, shows connect at 4800 baud and the data
transfers.

With ConnectMe and ConnectLX (2.17) I get nothing or the software
locks up.

With StrePla Connect I get “connect at 4800 baud”, no beep from the
Colibri and the software does not recognize the logger is there.

With the serial cable and LXe I can upload and download to a Windows
XP computer without any problems.

Any help would be appreciated. *Does anyone have a Colibri with
software 3.00 that is working to download the flights to a PDA?

Paul,

Thanks for the suggestion, it got me going in the correct direction at
least with Pocket StrePla-Connect. I had been connecting directly
through Pocket StrePla and did not realize that the Pocket StrePla-
Connect had settings for baud that were different from Pocket
StrePla. I connected at 19,200 and then was able to set it to 4800.
I can now download flights from the Colibri.

The odd thing is that ConnectMe and sister program ConnectLX will not
work at all. They both lock up and will not communicate with the
Colibri at all. If anyone has gotten these program to work I would
like to here how it was done. I think they would be best in the long
run but glad that the StrePla program worked.

Tim,

Are you sure that no other program is running and using the COM port?
Remember on a PDA programs do not stop if you just close them by clicking
the cross.

Try to do a soft reset, start _only_ConnectMe and see what happens.

I used to have this Colibri-PDA combo, and it worked like a charm, with
SeeYou Mobile and ConnectMe.
Pauls observations about the Colibri preferring 19.200 for download matches
my experience

Good luck,
Lars Peder

DG-600, Denmark



"Tim Taylor" wrote in message
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On Feb 13, 2:49 pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:

The odd thing is that ConnectMe and sister program ConnectLX will not
work at all. They both lock up and will not communicate with the
Colibri at all. If anyone has gotten these program to work I would
like to here how it was done. I think they would be best in the long
run but glad that the StrePla program worked.