rkaplan Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Will GPSOUT work with a real Garmin 530 if I connect my computer to the serial input of the GPS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Will GPSOUT work with a real Garmin 530 if I connect my computer to the serial input of the GPS? Does a real Garmin 530 have a serial input and accept standard NMEA sentences to tell it positions and so forth? Also remember, GPSout is one way -- there wouldn't be any input back from the Garmin to FS. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkaplan Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Garmin has a simulator interface document which describes the communication protocol in detail but does not mention that it is NMEA format.. it includes items such as OBS course and RAIM status which I suspect are not part of the NMEA protocol... so I suppose it will not work. Is there a way to use FSUIPC and a script in FS2004 to communicate bi-directionally with the Garmin 530? The Garmin 530 does have a serial port and the communication structure is well documented by Garmin - I just do not know how to establish this communication with FS2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickalty Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 "Is there a way to use FSUIPC and a script in FS2004 to communicate bi-directionally with the Garmin 530?" (Almost) Anything that is available in FS2004 can be read by FSUIPC. You could then write an app in VB (Or C or whatever) to pass it through the serial port to the Garmin, and read output back which FSUIPC could then re-write back into FS2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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