i8000 TMC driver development

[Guest Snow02]

Any idea if enabling this in Copilot 8 is possible? They have a traffic update option, but it's subscription based. Which is kind of ridiculous if it's free OTA.

[Guest XeOS]

Any idea if enabling this in Copilot 8 is possible? They have a traffic update option, but it's subscription based. Which is kind of ridiculous if it's free OTA.

This will work on iGO and on Navigon, not on Copilot.

[Guest XeOS]

Hmmmm.... can't get it to show TMC data in iGO. What baudrate do you use?

[Guest Badulay]

dear phj I get 404 error from your site...

[Guest XeOS]

dear phj I get 404 error from your site...

Correct url

[Guest phj]

Will this work in the USA on the i920?

In the case the regional setting I implemented well, and the i920 has the same hardware as the I8000, must be.

[Guest Omega Ra]

In the case the regional setting I implemented well, and the i920 has the same hardware as the I8000, must be.

cool. I'll have to give it a go.

[Guest phj]

Correct url

Thank you, I edited the post also

[Guest phj]

Hmmmm.... can't get it to show TMC data in iGO. What baudrate do you use?

I think the baudrate count nothing in this case, because the COM port is virtual... Otherwise I used 57600.

[Guest frici001]

Thank You PHJ! It's a great job. :)

[Guest frici001]

Here You are, how works the program together iGO8 at Budapest. :)

Thx Patience for screenshots!

Edited February 6, 2010 by frici001

[Guest _joker_]

Nice work! The static TMC setting works.

How is it with dynamik search? No green stripe and "no TMC" Or must I wait a very long time?

Greetings _joker_

Edited January 19, 2010 by _joker_

[Guest phj]

Nice work! The static TMC setting works.

How is it with dynamik search? No green stripe and "no TMC" Or must I wait a very long time?

Greetings _joker_

Just examining the problem. Because of a mystic reason, the seek operation took 10-20 seconds, therefore the iGO never find a valid channel. Until solved please use in static mode..

Edited January 19, 2010 by phj

[Guest Badulay]

Thank you, I edited the post also

thank you both

i think it works for me too but we dont have a tmc information in our town, i travel a lot gonna try it thanks again

[Guest Opuske]

awesome app , just a shame i wont be able to use it as tomtom on the omnia2 does not have tmc functions.

actually all tomtom versions on a pda / phone dont have tmc functions.

and i didnt / dont like igo so tobad for me :)

[Guest Viper.MK]

brilliant driver :)

It works good with Royaltek and I receive loads of TMCs, but I receive only cryptic data in GNS mode.

Is there any chance that you decode/implement the GNS protocol as well as some of us are using Navigon 7 that only takes GNS?

Cheers

Marc

[Guest XeOS]

awesome app , just a shame i wont be able to use it as tomtom on the omnia2 does not have tmc functions.

actually all tomtom versions on a pda / phone dont have tmc functions.

and i didnt / dont like igo so tobad for me :)

You could also try Sygic or Navigon, as TomTom for PDA is ancient in comparison to iGO, Sygic or Navigon imo

[Guest phj]

brilliant driver :)

It works good with Royaltek and I receive loads of TMCs, but I receive only cryptic data in GNS mode.

Is there any chance that you decode/implement the GNS protocol as well as some of us are using Navigon 7 that only takes GNS?

Cheers

Marc

Unfortunately I'm not responsible for the TMC protocols - it is done by hypergps.dll , so please contact BeemerTPPC at xda.

[Guest Opuske]

You could also try Sygic or Navigon, as TomTom for PDA is ancient in comparison to iGO, Sygic or Navigon imo

Yea i was looking at sygic but im not sure if it can work with this TMC app ?

Navigon is way off on the routes i do all the time when i last tested it a year ago maybe it has become better now ?

[Guest phj]

Yea i was looking at sygic but im not sure if it can work with this TMC app ?

Navigon is way off on the routes i do all the time when i last tested it a year ago maybe it has become better now ?

There is no any special in the implementation - any GPS sw. must work with it which can read Royaltek or GNS formatted TMC data on a serial port, so I think yes.

Issued a new version 1.3. The debug code removed and there are two settings in registry which can be modify: HKLM\Software\gfmapi\ms, which is the cycle time in msec - in this frequency will be queried the chip for valid RDS data; slower (bigger number) reduces the power consumption, quicker yield more TMC messages in a given time. The rssi is the minimum seek RSSI threshold, the automatic scan stops when this value is reached. But until I will find the reason why the auto scan take such a ling time, I removed this and implement a single channel step instead, which is quick but it takes long time for iGO to scan the full band...

[Guest XeOS]

Unfortunately I'm not responsible for the TMC protocols - it is done by hypergps.dll , so please contact BeemerTPPC at xda.

To enable GNS TMC you need to set TMC mode in HyperGPS to TMC+GPS, then it should work fine.

[Guest redzone321]

Could someone explain to a noob like me what this actually does?

[Guest TRoN_1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel

Google and noobs be best mates.

[Guest Omega Ra]

Could someone explain to a noob like me what this actually does?

it allows you to get traffic updates over the FM radio for your GPS nav software.

[Guest Qualquer coisa]

Hey guys, first: Great job!!

Second: Do i have to plug the earpice for enhance the radio signal? Or it should work without the earpice?

My problem is: i went to phj page, downloaded and installed all the stuff.

Then i opened the HyperGPS, enabled TMC at COM4.

Opened iGO, and told it to look for TMC hardware. Then i receive a MSG that TMC is not available... Is this due a lack of radio signal or my city does not have TMC?

Edited January 20, 2010 by Qualquer coisa