[time-nuts] Lady Heather and the NTGS50AA

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

Hi Ignacio
 
I'm not familiar with the GPSTM tool, trying to run it here generates  
exception errors, but from what I see when it's trying to boot it's much the  
same format as Trimble's various other offerings.
 
If you run Trimble GPS Monitor though, version 1.6 was the latest but  1.05 
is fine too, and that doesn't connect there's likely to be a box  showing 
"IDLE" in the bottom right hand corner of the displayed screen for  that.
If you right click that you should get a drop down menu with the top item  
"COM Port..."
Left clicking that should bring up a small panel  for selecting Com  port 
and settings with a tick button for Auto-detect settings.
If you select that tick button and hit OK it should run through all that  
standard options for baud rate and protocol etc and should hopefully find  
whatever it's set to at the moment.
 
I've just tried this with an NTGS50AA that's been running with Lady Heather 
 and it very quickly connected using TSIP at 9600-8-None-1.
 
Once running in GPS monitor it's fairly straightforward to change settings  
to what you prefer, at least it is for appropriate Trimble GPS modules but  
I haven't tried using it to make changes with the NTGS50AA.
 
I have observed though that Lady Heather can make other  unexpected changes 
at times.
I've been playing with some Trimble Resolution T and Resolution SMT modules 
 recently, along with various different versions of Trimble GPS software as 
 well as Lady Heather, and was losing settings, apparently at random,  
until I realised that Lady H was changing the format for output data such  as 
position and altitude etc to alternative formats that GPS Monitor and  Trimble 
Studio, for example wouldn't or couldn't display.
 
It's easy enough to put them back, and once done they seem to survive  
different versions of Trimble software as well as power cycling etc etc,  but 
when run with Lady H they reset again.
Once aware of this I've just accomodated it and haven't bothered to  
investigate further, so it's quite possibly something in a config file that  could 
be changed, but to be fair to Lady H, Trimbles own software isn't best  
behaved at times either.
 
When running the NTGS50AA with GPS monitor just now I noticed the position  
data is greyed out, even though it still displays fine with Lady H, but I'm 
a  bit more cautious about tempting to configure these with Trimble's 
software and  much prefer running them with Lady H anyway.
 
Regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 18/01/2014 14:57:03 GMT Standard Time,  
eb4apl at cembreros.jazztel.es writes:

I have a  NTGS50AA working with the Lady Heather last version which 
incorporate  support for this board (Thanks Mask Sims).
When I bought the board I used  the Trimble utility GPS Monitor (GPSTM 
Commissioning Tool V1.5) to set it  up and in the way knowing that it was 
previously  working in  Guatemala.  This program uses COM1 or 2 with a 
fixed configuration of  19200, 7,Odd and 1stop bit. After using LH it 
seems that it changed the  parameters to 9600.0.N,1 probably using an 
undocumented command and the  board stores this configuration even if 
unpowered.  But now I can't  use  the Trimble program because it refuses 
to connect, even it  crashes when trying to connect at 19200 baud.  
Strangely it worked a  couple of times when I was trying to command the 
leds in the panel but I  don't know how it managed to change the baud rate.
Does anybody know how to  change the configuration of the board serial 
port, maybe an undocumented  command? I have the manual but I don't find 
anything neither in the LH  documentation.

Regards,
Ignacio

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