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[bcn]

Originally Posted by Ivanm

I loaded O on windows & linux and seems to be running much faster on linux is it only my imagination or can it be

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Depending on drivers and especially the available memory there can be differences in speed indeed.

[Ivanm]

I tipe the command to change group in ubuntu to dialout but do not happen, when i tipe groups it doesn't show dialout, when I use "groups username" it show dialout but cant connect usb to serial gps, doesn't show any serial ports is it a driver problem ?

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[nohal]

Ivanm...
First things first - Did you relogin to your system so that your session actually reflects the changes?

Pavel

[Ivanm]

Yes I did

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[nohal]

OK, open a terminal, install setserial using

sudo apt-get install setserial

and post the output of

sudo setserial -g /dev/tty*S*

Are you sure you don't have gpsd installed and set to automatically acquire the GPS? when you plug the device in and run

dmesg

does the output end with a few messages talking about it?

Pavel

[Ivanm]

A bit of google and it is sorted now thanks

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[bcn]

And can you let us know what has been the point? Might help others....

[Ivanm]

I went to sea and used O Cpn with AIS, after I changed to Ubuntu, had a few freezes in Windows. The mate loved it (me as well) and in the 4 days never freezed once, no problem whatsoever, thanks to the guys who made this available and keep O Cpn running.
All that I have to sort out is to get my Olex marks on Open Cpn sure will find something soon

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[bcn]

Originally Posted by Ivanm

All that I have to sort out is to get my Olex marks on Open Cpn sure will find something soon

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Found this:
http://www.oceandtm.com/Olex_Convert_GoogleEarth.pdf

and then you can use GPSbabel to covert from KML to GPX, which you can import using the Route Manger.

Good luck!

Hubert

[Ivanm]

Originally Posted by bcn

Found this:
http://www.oceandtm.com/Olex_Convert_GoogleEarth.pdf

and then you can use GPSbabel to covert from KML to GPX, which you can import using the Route Manger.

Good luck!

Hubert

I used this but instead of Southern Hemisphere it show the marks and tracks in the Northern with wrong lat & long

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[Ivanm]

Originally Posted by bcn

Found this:
http://www.oceandtm.com/Olex_Convert_GoogleEarth.pdf

and then you can use GPSbabel to covert from KML to GPX, which you can import using the Route Manger.

Good luck!

Hubert

I used this but instead of Southern Hemisphere it show the marks and tracks in the Northern with wrong lat & long

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[Ivanm]

In google earth it also show the wrong positions

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[hjvanh]

I wanted to download the plugin gribfiles (for zyGrib) from the downloadpage but couldn't find it. Has it been moved ?

Best regards,
André
s/y Allegra

[nohal]

Andre...
The grib plugin is distributed as part of the main OpenCPN package, no additional download is needed.

Pavel


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[Ivanm]

I made a file in home/$USER/.opencpn/UserIcons for Linux as in the manual but cant see the png files in opencpn to change the icon for marks maybe i did something wrong, in windows there is no problem. It is the same place that holds the conf file and navobj files

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