Comments on: Reading live data from a Garmin GPS unit on OS X

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By: Mark Alsip

Mark Alsip — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:09:47 +0000

Fantastic information from start to finish and still relevant almost 2 years after (apparently) the entry was posted. Thank you! I also own the old but trustworthy yellow eTrex. I’d written custom S/W to communicate with it under Windows using various incarnations of Visual Basic and C#. After becoming a Mac convert last year I despaired ever being able to do the same on my MacBook running OS X Leopard (no serial ports). I bought the suggested Keyspan adapter, installed the Mac drivers (read the users guide first!), plugged in the adapater, and… everything’s working on the first try. Wow. I’m going to build my own S/W in XCode rather than go the Python route, but this blog has already moved me beyond the hardest part of such a project. Well done! Very well done…

By: Dave Osbourne

Dave Osbourne — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:45:17 +0000

This was a very useful tutorial, I hope you keep this online for others (and myself) to reference down the road in-perpetuity.

By: emmetc

emmetc — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:25:46 +0000

Hi Chris. I’ve never tried to run Python scripts under Xcode, so I can’t be of direct help there (in fact, I’m not sure that Xcode can even compile Python at all).

You can try running the Python script directly from the command line though. In Terminal.app, go to the directory that the script is in and type “python main.py”. Note that you’ll have to have the PySerial and PyGPS modules installed for this to work.

By: Mrs McGoogan

Mrs McGoogan — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:11:21 +0000

Its all greek to me. I dont know what I would do either Chris. Did you say you were from Canada? I would just buy one already coded.

Now here is a deal!! Its so hard as a Canadian to shop online and find a reputable company that ships to Canada. I have been looking for a GPS for my car and I live here in BC. I was chacking road conditions and I found this page on the Government site. GPS Navigation for Cars – BC & Canadian Maps

Looks like they not only ship to Canada they have excellent prices also.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:07:22 +0000

Hi,

I am using Xcode 3.0 (Leopard) and created a Cocoa-Python Application Project.

I am very new at this so I am not sure what I am supposed to do next. I have tried putting in your script in the main.py file and running it by clicking build and go in Xcode however it is not working.

As an aside, I have established communication with the GPS and verified this through GPS Connect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris..