qmapshack/garmin

[blubberbaer]

Dear Forum,

just wondering, if anybody of you has experience with qmapshack and an old garmin device gpsmap 62s. I've found a youtube video, showing that the device is listed on a qmapshack workspace. The qmapshack manuals talks about making sure that udisks2 is installed, which I did.

[DawgG]

I have some experience with qmapshack/qlandkartegt and (older) garmin devices. What do you want to do?
My systems are completely free of systemd and udisks, and transferring tracks, POIs etc. (which has worked very well in qlandkartegt) i do with gpsbabel now (since this seems easier to me than with qmapshack) or use the device's mass storage mode. Mapfiles (gmapsupp.img) i ususally create with mkgmap-bin (from a local overlay since the version in portage lags behind a little) and transfer them via mass storage.

In short:
make sure the device's "mass storage mode" is active
make sure the device is detected; try to mount it manually
if all works, integrate it with qmapshack (eg write udev-rule or sth.)

If it does not work (data in internal memory, no mass storage mode, ...), try to use gpsbabel(fe).
GOOD LUCK!
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[blubberbaer]

thanks. mass storage mode and mounting is working. i want to replace basecamp to manage my tracks, maps and routes. i'm using windows on qemu to use basecamp but it is kind of slow. to me basecamp is way to confusing and not logically organized.

udev creates the devices in /dev/...., is that right ? Do you know the devicename i need, thus qmapshack is going to recognize my gpsmap 62s ?

[DawgG]

if mounting works then storage is accessible. Accoording to this: https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki/DocGisDevices it really should work.

To find out what's happening it's best to tail the syslog when you plug in the device - it'll tell you a bunch of things like the usb- and storage-devicename(s).