Question for Infill G4 Owners

[www.SCHNEISING.de]

I am using ShowGPS to manage my traffic information collected from the internet.
This nice little tool brings the automatic time synchronisation with gps and many mor features, that might be of interest.

A ShowGPS Plugin might be a good idea ;-)

http://www.SHOWGPS.de

[ik632]

Is there anywhere in the US to buy the G4 as a barebones or minimally equipped? I don't want to buy one from the current vendors that sell them fully equipped as I plan on using CF. I feel like I'd be spending extra money for stuff I'm either going to uninstall or not use.

[marassa]

Originally Posted by ik632

Is there anywhere in the US to buy the G4 as a barebones or minimally equipped?

cartft.com (Germany) might agree to ship to the US - ask them.

http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/770

[amedesign]

Originally Posted by marassa

I am lazier than you - I found a ready-made one:
http://www.coaa.co.uk/gpstime.htm

... You still have to press Start though and the program would not fix the date, only time.

I installed and test with 1 minute reading. Doesn't seem to load to much the hardware. Works ok.

[twiglet]

I just remembered about posting my program.
So here goes.

Just unzip the contents of the folder to wherever you want. When the program is run it will poll the gps receiver for the correct date and time, and then set your pc date and time accordingly. It then exits.
It's completely automated and headless. So you wont see anything run. Check the gpstime.log txt file in the programs directory to find out if it worked.
You can add this as a startup/resume command in centrafuse.

You cant read data from the gps when it's in-use by centrafuse. So you must use something like xport to split the com port into two.
Then set centrafuse to use one of the new virtual ports and then gpstime to use the other.

You can set the port number by editing settings.dat in the programs directory. It's the first number before the comma. If your baud rate is not 9600 then you will need to change that too.

Download gpstime here
Download xport here

This was designed with the infill g4 in mind. But anyone with a receiver set to NMEA mode should be able to use it.

[eliaz]

Great program twiglet. But where i'm at, i'm using winter/summertime. So, when gpstime gets the time from my gps device the clock would be 1 hour wrong. Is it possible to make the program add 1 hour to the clock when it gets the time from a gps device?

[vigilante_xix]

Hey twiglet,

Any update to the summer/winter time bug mentioned?

[Tamo]

Just tried it too.
But here my GPS time update goes 2 hours wrong.
Any chance I can set an hour delta in settings?