Cannot read Garmin device on Slack15

[root]

I have been trying to read data from my garmin301
forerunner. I used sbopkg to build gpsbabel.
I then used slackpkg to update all (manY).

With 14.2 and previous I used this command to
access the data:

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx

This doesn't work with 15.0:nothing is read back



According to an online post, one needs to :
echo -n "1-1:1.0" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage/unbind
which didn't fix the problem.

When the garmin is connected I get the device ttyUSB0 created.
The gpsbabel help shows two garmin entries (garmin and garmin301)

Then I tried this sequences of gpsbabel commands:
gpsbabel -t -i garmin301 -f usb: -o garmin301 -F /ram/outfile.gpx
gpsbabel -t -i garmin301 -f usb: -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx
gpsbabel -t -i garmin301 -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0: -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx

The last command yields a file /ram/outfile.gpx but it
does not contain the data. That file reads:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<TrainingCenterDatabase xmlns="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2
http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabasev2.xsd">
<Courses>
</Courses>
</TrainingCenterDatabase>

All this has taken several hours of work just to read the garmin301.

Please, will anyone who has read the Garmin 301 Forerunner under 15.0
give me the trick?

Thanks.

[Lew Pitcher]

I have been trying to read data from my garmin301 forerunner. I used
sbopkg to build gpsbabel.
I then used slackpkg to update all (manY).
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx
This doesn't work with 15.0:nothing is read back

[snip]

Have you read (and followed the directions in)
https://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html
?

Have you asked on the gpsbabel mail list?
(https://sourceforge.net/p/gpsbabel/mailman/)

[root]

Post by Lew Pitcher

I have been trying to read data from my garmin301 forerunner. I used
sbopkg to build gpsbabel.
I then used slackpkg to update all (manY).
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gtrnctr -F /ram/outfile.gpx
This doesn't work with 15.0:nothing is read back

[snip]
Have you read (and followed the directions in)
https://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html
?
Have you asked on the gpsbabel mail list?
(https://sourceforge.net/p/gpsbabel/mailman/)

Thanks Lew. I got the device to work. Since I don't suppose
anyone without a Garmin is following this thread I
will present the solution in a separate post.