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yep, your gps did not lock on any satelites yet..
it takes ~40sec for GPSlim to get the lock in clear skies, assuming your dont move the unit during the acquisition period.
The time is GMT (assuming it had a lock, overwise it's some garbage)
If you continue having difficulties locking on satelites, consider changing the unit. Unfortunately, there are reports of many defective gpslim236 units outthere...
The good thing - your communication part & cable work ok ;-)
Yay, its working finally. Turns out I simply didn't give the GPSlim enough time to lock onto to the satellites. Thanks guys for the help :)
Deniska, you did an awesome job on this, you got my vote for the competition ^^
I got my GPSlim unit made my cable and the GPS screen works like a chamr I haven't loaded up Map This ! but will be trying that tongiht. Thanks for the info and help this thing rocks.
I have a noob question about testing the voltage from the GPS Unit. How do I test this with my mulitimeter ? Like where does the Red pin go and where does the black pin go to test the output voltage to make sure everything is good. Like I said all works I just want to make sure on the voltage, I am far from an electircal engineer, thanks guys.
I don't think you can get an accurate voltage reading with a multimeter in this case... the idea is to start with high resistor values (say, 5K) and keep lowering the resistence until you get a stable reading...Quote:
Originally Posted by steve_bk
I think I have a stable reading on your green screen if that is what you mean. Work fine no problems. I just wanted to make sure the volatge comign from the GPSlim through my cable with the 1k resitor was doing ok, from what you replied I gather I can't get this reading from a multimeter.
so.. I have actually received my Holux gpSlim 236 and neither the Greenscreen Programm nor the MapView is working with it...
I made the data Cable with an 2 KOhm resistor... but there is no reaction in the Greenscreen Programm or in MapView itself!!
so.. I tested the Cable with an Multimeter and its just fine wired and soldered....
And the GpSlim locked on satellites....
so.. is it because i used a 2KOhm resistor??
Or did it work for someone with a higher valued resistor than 1KOhm?
There are reports from someone that even using GPSlim236 the only way to make it work was WITHOUT any resistor (while using stripped sony's remote)Quote:
Originally Posted by kamatschka
so.. i found now my 1KOkm resistor and soldered it and now it's working.....
So.. I think... with resistors above 1Kohm it does not work!!!!!
Yeehaaa...
I get it finally working!!! :D :cool:
Thanks to all who helped me!!!
especially fokia !!!
greets kamatschka
I'm gad you made it!!!!:) :D :) :D :) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kamatschka
FYI
I used an official Sony Remote + a Pelican USB cable ($4.99 from walmart) and a 1k ohm 1/4 resistor with the GPSLim 236, everything is working fine.