Thread: Release: Proximo's CF style skins

Well I set GPS to external and IG with IGMod embeds beautifully in RR. The only problem is that my GPS receiver is not recognized when in RR. If I exit RR and load IGMod the reciever is recognized fine. I have correctly set my GPS port in RRconfig.

Interestingly, RR correctly displays my speed even though IG doesn't recognize my receiver. I assume this can only be done via GPS; therefore, this suggests to me that when in RR some other program is grabbing my GPS receiver. I am using no programs other than RR, the CFX skin, IGMod and IG. Any ideas what might be going on?

Originally Posted by kbreeden

Well I set GPS to external and IG with IGMod embeds beautifully in RR. The only problem is that my GPS receiver is not recognized when in RR. If I exit RR and load IGMod the reciever is recognized fine. I have correctly set my GPS port in RRconfig.

Interestingly, RR correctly displays my speed even though IG doesn't recognize my receiver. I assume this can only be done via GPS; therefore, this suggests to me that when in RR some other program is grabbing my GPS receiver. I am using no programs other than RR, the CFX skin, IGMod and IG. Any ideas what might be going on?

Okay, forgot to mention that. What I use to get around this is xport3. Search the forums for it. It's written by someone here in the groups (think his username is "Curiosity"). Xport3 splits the com port that your GPS uses. So, you can set one port for iGuidance and one port for RR. This will provide the info from your GPS receiver to both RR and iGuidance.

Hope this helps.

Okay, I didn't realize RR used its own port. It might be nice if that could be disabled, but if Xport does the trick great.

RR actually uses the port designated in the rrconfig.exe. On a future release I believe the mappointport will be eliminated and only gpsport will be used (both of these are specified in rr.ini). Once that is implemented, this shouldn't be an issue anymore.

Originally Posted by Hark

Does anyone else using this skin with XM have the sat reception bar/meter not located properly? It seems to be too low. Also, resuming from standby to XM (last screen/thing listened to) doesn't seem to work properly, have to go out then back in. This may not be a skin problem, though.

I'm running the skin at 800x600 and the "sat" bar is too high and the "Ter" bar is too low.

I'm using the XMPCR for XM. The only problem I've noticed regarding hibernation is that in order to get music to play I must start in the mode that was playing when I hibernated. In other words, if I was in XM when I hibernated I must start music playing in XM before I can hear mp3s. The reverse is also true. It's a minor issue which I can certainly live with.

Originally Posted by Hark

Does anyone else using this skin with XM have the sat reception bar/meter not located properly? It seems to be too low.

Hark, I haven't tested the XM skin since I don't have the hardware. You can use SkinEditor to rearrange the components and maybe post back the fix here and I'll update it. Thanks.