EasyGPS loading waypoints to Garmin GPSMAP 192c

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Hi I need some help loading way points into my Garmin GPS Map 192c. I have removed the data card and purchased a card reader, with
UBS other end, and plugged into my pc, but pc does not recognise it,
I have loaded waypoints into my montana ok, but that has a UBS/small ubs cable. Any idears how to load way points into my 192c?

thanks
 
Clive said:
Hi I need some help loading way points into my Garmin GPS Map 192c. I have removed the data card and purchased a card reader, with
UBS other end, and plugged into my pc, but pc does not recognise it,
I have loaded waypoints into my montana ok, but that has a UBS/small ubs cable. Any idears how to load way points into my 192c?

thanks
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I know nothing about the Garmin.
can you not load them via the cursor, much safer than entering numbers.
 
Clive said:
Hi I need some help loading way points into my Garmin GPS Map 192c. I have removed the data card and purchased a card reader, with
UBS other end, and plugged into my pc, but pc does not recognise it,
I have loaded waypoints into my montana ok, but that has a UBS/small ubs cable. Any idears how to load way points into my 192c?

thanks
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OK - first things first you need to be able to read/see the card in your card reader... did the card reader come with a driver disk??

Go to yourfolder view - can you see the card as an additional drive?

Can you test the card reader with a different card (say from a camera)? Does it see it?
 
Can you load waypoints onto the card? I thought they had to go through the power/data cable into the unit. Which isn't that hard, 3 fiddly wires to solder onto a 9 pin D connector and buy a serial/USB adapter.
Opencpn can upload waypoints/routes now as well, V good for planning.
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/
 
Thanks for your replies

in reply to the 3 questions

OK - first things first you need to be able to read/see the card in your card reader... did the card reader come with a driver disk?? "No I bought the reader off e:bay as they are discontinued by Garmin"

Go to yourfolder view - can you see the card as an additional drive? "I can no see the device, unlike when I connect the Montana 600"

Can you test the card reader with a different card (say from a camera)? Does it see it? "The card reader is special to the Garmin data card, hence the need to buy the card reader"

any other possible ideas?

thanks
 
Clive said:
Thanks for your replies

in reply to the 3 questions

OK - first things first you need to be able to read/see the card in your card reader... did the card reader come with a driver disk?? "No I bought the reader off e:bay as they are discontinued by Garmin"

Go to yourfolder view - can you see the card as an additional drive? "I can no see the device, unlike when I connect the Montana 600"

Can you test the card reader with a different card (say from a camera)? Does it see it? "The card reader is special to the Garmin data card, hence the need to buy the card reader"

any other possible ideas?

thanks
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not sure if this is an answer but i bought a new card for a camera a few yrs ago, the camera could not "see" the card. it transpired that the camera was behind in card advances & did not expect a card of that size
 
Clive said:
Thanks for your replies

in reply to the 3 questions

OK - first things first you need to be able to read/see the card in your card reader... did the card reader come with a driver disk?? "No I bought the reader off e:bay as they are discontinued by Garmin"

Go to yourfolder view - can you see the card as an additional drive? "I can no see the device, unlike when I connect the Montana 600"

Can you test the card reader with a different card (say from a camera)? Does it see it? "The card reader is special to the Garmin data card, hence the need to buy the card reader"

any other possible ideas?

thanks
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That's me out of idea's..... :D

Can you find a instruction manual for the card reader anywhere on the Garmin site???
 
Clive said:
any other possible ideas?

thanks
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Are you sure you're not barking up the wrong tree with trying to load waypoints onto the card? Doesn't look like easygps can do this, it and any other similar programs I've played with all work by uploading of downloading the data direct to the gps unit using NMEA or garmins own protocol, no files involved, just hit send and if it's set up right it transfers the waypoints/routes. If you can save/upload waypoints direct to the card maybe garmin has a program to do this but a quick google doesn't look like it does, I suspect you might be in a blind alley,

but I've been wrong many times before :)
 
Conachair said:
Are you sure you're not barking up the wrong tree with trying to load waypoints onto the card? Doesn't look like easygps can do this, it and any other similar programs I've played with all work by uploading of downloading the data direct to the gps unit using NMEA or garmins own protocol, no files involved, just hit send and if it's set up right it transfers the waypoints/routes. If you can save/upload waypoints direct to the card maybe garmin has a program to do this but a quick google doesn't look like it does, I suspect you might be in a blind alley,

but I've been wrong many times before :)
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Wonder if it's a baud rate issue??? My Garmin won't connect to EasyGPS unless the baud rate is set correctly (4800 from memory??) - plug the card reader in, fire up EasyGPS and play around with the various baud settings in EasyGPS to see if that makes a difference..... ??
 
Fantasie 19 said:
Wonder if it's a baud rate issue??? My Garmin won't connect to EasyGPS unless the baud rate is set correctly (4800 from memory??) - plug the card reader in, fire up EasyGPS and play around with the various baud settings in EasyGPS to see if that makes a difference..... ??
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Sounds like Clive is trying to get a computer to talk to the card in a reader, really not sure if that will help, possibly to update charts or something but for waypoints and routes I think it needs to be talking to the the gps unit itself, the waypoints might not even be stored on the card but in internal memory somewhere, dunno for sure though, never played with that machine.

Quick google later..
Clive, have you had a read of this?
http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/45_USBDataCardProgrammer.pdf

Might sort out your connection issues but still looks like it might just be used for chart upgrades or system software upgrades.
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=906

Good luck :)
 
Check that the interface protocol your 192c is using matches the protocol EasyGPS expects to see. On my GArmin GPS72 the interface is selected via the Setup menu item. I think you probably need to make sure the 192c is set to NMEA with 4800 baud.
 
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