I am interested in monitoring the GPS data on a routerboard that is in a mobile unit connected to my WDS network. Is there a way by IP and port number to read the gps unit on connected to the serial port of routerboard on my laptop using a virtual com port.
I think all I would need is a port# assigned to the rs232 on the routerboard.
Help is always appreciated!
look into the ‘special-login’ functions, maybe that would help?
sam
I was curious about this and have also been dealing with serial port stuff all day today - so here is what I find.
You can setup ‘special-login’ and supposedly upon login you will be auto connected to the serial port, but this does not work for some reason. When entering the following you can get connected and then grab the GPS if thats what you want.
[gps@mikroHome] > /sys serial-terminal serial1
[Ctrl-X is the prefix key]
1,06,2.3,189.8,M,-34.9,M,0.0,0000*43
$GPGSA,A,3,03,19,22,21,18,15,,,,,,,3.2,2.3,2.3*36
$GPRMC,072xx3.409,A,3xx9.8098,N,11xx0.8539,W,0.12,189.78,071105,,*10
$GPGGA,072054.409,3xx9.8098,N,11xx0.8539,W,1,06,2.3,189.9,M,-34.9,M,0.0,0000*45
$GPGSA,A,3,03,19,22,21,18,15,,,,,,,3.2,2.3,2.3*36
$GPGSV,3,1,09,15,68,055,46,22,64,313,49,18,52,033,48,21,44,100,47*77
$GPGSV,3,2,09,14,40,197,00,03,39,290,43,19,15,318,37,01,06,207,00*7A
$GPGSV,3,3,09,06,05,162,00*46
$GPRMC,072054.409,A,3xx9.8098,N,11xx0.8539,W,0.08,181.02,071105,,*19
$GPGGA,072055.409,3xx9.8098,N,11xx0.8539,W,1,06,2.3,189.9,M,-34.9,M,0.0,0000*44
$GPGSA,A,3,03,19,22,21,18,15,,,,,,,3.2,2.3,2.3*36
$GPRMC,072055.409,A,3xx9.8098,N,1xxx0.8539,W,0.08,183.03,071105,,*1B
$GPGGA,072056.409,3xx9.8098,N,11xx0.8538,W,1,06,2.3,189.9,M,-34.9,M,0.0,0000*46
I had just decided to go with an RS232 to Ethernet converter. I still may have to becouse I want to grab the GPS data and use it real-time with my GPS tracking software.
http://www.neteon.net/prod.asp?pc=13&p=117&pcn=Wired%201-Port#order
To be honest, I don’t know how to grab the data!
Thank you for your quick response!