By etippelt - 12/4/2011 12:30:14 PM
I have an old Garmin Pilot III that I use with Navbox Proplan 5. Due to its age, it has a serial port connection, so my Windows 7 64 bit machine has a USB to Serial adapter running as COM-5.
Navbox uploads fine, so I know the hardware aspect is functional.
I have tried the Skydemon eval, but when I try and upload the route to the Garmin, (after clearing any existing routes on it), the name of the route goes over, but nothing else - there is no route information and no waypoints.
I'm either missing something obvious or there is a compatibility issue with the Garmin. The unit was replaced by Garmin in the last year after the old one developed a fault so it has the latest firmware.
Are there any other owners of a Pilot III that are successfully uploading to their GPS from Skydemon, and if so, did you have any problems initially?
Any suggestions welcome!
Cheers
Ed
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By etippelt - 12/10/2011 9:19:51 PM
Thank you for the information about EasyGPS - this does indeed appear to offer a way of interfacing SD with older Garmin devices. Navbox still supports my Garmin without needing a kludge to communicate so will remain my primary planning software for the moment.
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