Cruisers & Sailing Forums - Search Results

		Cruisers & Sailing Forums > Search Forums
Search Results

Vendors

Showing results 1 to 7 of 7
Search took 0.00 seconds. Search: Posts Made By: nohal

Forum: OpenCPN

11-06-2013, 22:00

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

Re: Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Libertine...
Yes and no... I have some prototype code that uses the Location API to create NMEA stream which works fine, but for some unclear reason the COM object (yes, the brand new Windows 8 took...

Forum: OpenCPN

25-02-2013, 20:21

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

I definitely don't think about buying something...

I definitely don't think about buying something like that, but I bother with a way to actually implement something to use the Location API as it's something I can possibly do. What I can't do at the...

Forum: OpenCPN

16-12-2012, 06:11

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

Re: Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Bill...
wish you luck. Please, keep us posted as there sure will be more people with the same problem in the future. If you start to play with the sensors, I would be personally very interested in...

Forum: OpenCPN

15-12-2012, 07:44

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

Re: Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Bill...
You have no other choices - OpenCPN (unless you are using the latest betas) needs a serial port as a datasource on Windows.
If you managed to make any non-metro application to work, just...

Forum: OpenCPN

15-12-2012, 07:28

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

Re: Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

I don't see any mention of OpenCPN not supporting Windows 8 there... What I see is that the docs are not updated to reflect W8.
The few reports we got say it DOES work on W8 and I can confirm it...

Forum: OpenCPN

15-12-2012, 07:00

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

Re: Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Bill...
try to run some other "classic" gps app like gpsinfo (https://www.usglobalsat.com/store/downloads/GPSInfo.zip) rather than the Metro toys to figure out the port. Unfortunately I have not seen...

Forum: OpenCPN

14-12-2012, 07:21

Replies: 82

Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Views: 34,803

Posted By nohal

Re: Windows 8 Tablet with built-in GPS

Bill...
You can write into that field, just fill in the port your GPS is on if it was not detected and offered in the dropdown with choices.

Pavel

Showing results 1 to 7 of 7

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -7. The time now is 21:59.

Visit our Popular Forums

The Fleet

Cruising Business

Life Aboard a Boat

Seamanship, Navigation & Boat Handling

Engineering & Systems

Photo Categories

Recent Photos

Listing Categories