Help needed with communication between a Colibri and IPAQ

In my experience LX connect will work at any speed except 4800. If I
changed the collibri to 9600 it downloaded fine. Bit of a nuisance as
winpilot will only work at 4800.

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:38:40 -0800 (PST), Tim Taylor
wrote:

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 15, 2:48*am, Basil wrote:
In my experience LX connect will work at any speed except 4800. *If I
changed the collibri to 9600 it downloaded fine. *Bit of a nuisance as
winpilot will only work at 4800.



Thanks to everyone for hints and suggestions! I am glad I did this on
the work bench and not in the glider.

After several days of playing with the system I have found that both
ConnectMe (ConnectLX is the same with only LX drivers) and Pocket
StrePla Connect will work at 4800 baud.

Pocket StrePla Connect is by far more reliable and has better error
handling so it does not lock up. The only negative is it produces
a .FIL file type rather than an .igc file when downloading the data to
the PDA with a Colibri.

ConnectMe will work but requires fiddling to get it to connect
sometimes and works perfectly other times. It is more prone to
locking up the PDA and requiring a reset. The positive is it does
translate the files into an .igc file when downloading to the PDA.

I will likely keep both programs on the IPAQ and use ConnectMe as the
main program as long as it works and use Pocket StrePla Connect as a
backup if I can't get ConnectMe to cooperate.