{"id":62,"date":"2012-02-10T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-02-10T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:55:00","slug":"using-gpsbabel-and-a-usb-to-serial-adapter-on-os-x-to-read-out-a-garmin-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Using gpsbabel and a USB to serial adapter on OS X to read out a Garmin GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years I have been owning a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver. It&#8217;s a nice little tool, pretty ruggedized and reliable. I use it to track for example hiking tracks and also sometimes for Geocaching. It has a serial interface for downloading the data. However, my MacBook Pro does not have a serial port. So I bought one of the ubiquitous Digitus USB to Serial adapters. With this and <span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;\">gpsbabel<\/span> (<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;\">sudo port install gpsbabel<\/span>, if you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macports.org\/\">MacPorts<\/a>), it is really easy to download the track data for example to a KML file to be viewed in <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;\">gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f \/dev\/cu.usbserial-XXXXXX -o kml -F mytracks.kml<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;\">XXXXXX<\/span> in the device filename varies from device to device, you probably can also use <span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;\">\/dev\/cu.usbserial-*<\/span> as the device filename, if you have only one of these things attached to your computer. It is important not to use the tty device file, since it seems not to work. I do not know yet what the exact difference is, but I will come back when I found out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years I have been owning a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver. It&#8217;s a nice little tool, pretty ruggedized and reliable. I use it to track for example hiking tracks and also sometimes for Geocaching. It has a serial interface for downloading the data. However, my MacBook Pro does not have a serial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using gpsbabel and a USB to serial adapter on OS X to read out a Garmin GPS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}