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I set up my circuit on a breadboard first and programmed everything and verified it's operation and then mounted everything to a prototyping PC board. First I dropped the switches because I likely won't need to reprogram the unit and if I do I can just tack in temporary jumpers. I made some minor changes to Larry's original design. You can find more details on his version on his blog . So most of the following is credited to KB7KMO Larry Littlefield who is on a boat somewhere in the Pacific I guess. I hate having to "redesign the wheel" which is what I love about Open Source. So I headed up to the best place I know for info on the ESP8266 (of course) And there I found this neat little project that was just what the doctored order.

#Pci lowrance maps how to

At the time people were still trying to translate the Chinese only data sheet and were hooking them to Arduino's and programming them via AT modem codes ( it has a 32 bit processor core and 512k -1Mb eeprom but no one knew how to program it until the English datasheets came out) The manufacturer released official datasheets in English last summer and development really took off so I figured someone had tried something like this even if it was for WiFi control of a different RS-232/422/485 device.

I also upped the baud rate to 38400 which is the same 'official' baud rate for AIS (I plan on whipping up a little AIS receiver in the near future to monitor barge traffic when I'm fishing the Mississippi River)Ībout a year ago I came across a neat little device designed by a Chinese manufacturer that looked very promising based on their ESP8266 WIFi IC. Here's a couple of shots of the reworked unit.

#Pci lowrance maps Bluetooth

The GPS data is sent to the Mega and output to the USB port and to a Bluetooth Radio so it can still be used without the finder. I send that to the Elite Ti's NMEA 0183 input and the Elite Ti picks it up automatically and uses it instead of the internal GPS, no muss no fuss. The output of the GPS module goes to one of the UARTS on the Arduino Mega and also to the same RS232 converter I used before only reversed, it's now an output instead of an input for a finder. Because the Arduino's are fairly slow (16MHz) and the way they transfer data to an SD card I had to limit the data to 1 Hz but my unit is capable of 5 Hz so I reprogrammed the GPS for the faster rate. I also reprogrammed the GPS to send all the messages the Elite Ti does such as $GPZDA which is just date and time but is apparently used by the Elite Ti to set the date and time on the unit. You can also access it via a FTP program by typing in the same IP address you used before and enter 21 as the portĪs I mentioned in the previous post using the internal GPS for map making creates a sizeable error in the data so I reworked the NMEA multiplexer/GPS/logger I made last year to act as just a GPS with multiple outputs. It's basically a simple FTP file server and when you click the "Logs" link you can see it's an FTP port. That's what the Logs section gives you access to. So just like an "Unrooted" or "Unlocked" phone or tablet the OS'es core file storage is protected from user access and you have a "home" directory that allows access to a small portion of storage for logging files, custom wallpaper, downloads from the Go Free website, etc.

#Pci lowrance maps android

It runs Embedded Linux for ARM CPU's as it's core OS just like Android does, Also like Android, Lowrance has it's own custom GUI which gives it it's character but the hardware and storage memory is all controlled by the Linux OS. sweetīasically these units are set up just like a smart phone or tablet. This allows wireless transfers of this file directly to your device of choice instead of transferring it to an SD card and transferring it from the SD card to your device.