Open CPN / Garmin 72H

[concentrik]

Can the Garmin GPS 72H accept wayoint data exported from Open CPN?

 

[maby]

If you send it over an NMEA link, OpenCPN has a checkbox on the export dialog box to send in "Garmin" format - resolves a few oddities in Garmin's interpretation of the NMEA "standard"

 

[Stu Jackson]

If you have a software package for the Garmin, try GPS Babel for trnsferring waypoints.

 

[Playtime]

Can the Garmin GPS 72H accept wayoint data exported from Open CPN?

Don't know about the 72H but I have an old Garmin 128 to which I export routes from OpenCPN on a regular basis.

As said above, use the Garmin setting in OpenCPN (Spanner/GPS/GRMN to GRMN). You may also need to change the "interface" setting on the GPS to GRMN/GRMN depending what your default is. I use the GPS to communicate with the Autohelm so NMEA/NMEA is the default. If you don't export NMEA from the Garmin then you could leave GRMN/GRMN as your default.

If you follow the above it should work fine.

 

[RobbieW]

GPSU

I do that via GPSU & the Garmin data cable for the 72