GooPs Real-time GPS Tracking and Navigation for Google Earth -Version 2.5.13 Released

**davidhite** · 03-15-2006, 07:40 PM

Thanks spaceskater,
Can you capture and send me the nmea output when the problem occurs? If not I can make a special debug build for you to run.

**RPM_VR4** · 03-15-2006, 08:28 PM

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FYI: Dylan makes Earth Bridge, David makes GooPs.

**spaceskater** · 03-15-2006, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

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FYI: Dylan makes Earth Bridge, David makes GooPs.

Very true! Sorry about that David! I mixed the names up... I'll capture and send you the nmea output as soon as possible! Thanks!

**davidhite** · 03-16-2006, 01:09 AM

spaceskater,
Did you try the <RotateMinimum> setting in Autozoom.cfg for your spinniing problem?
I don't think I have any control over that dialog that comes up when Google Earth starts. I believe you can ignore it and it will go away on its own once Google Earth gets started.
I can add a setting to autostart GE when GooPs is launched.
Thanks again.

Originally Posted by spaceskater

I also have on emore problem. My computer in the car is a VIA EPIA SP13000. it is a bit slower than a normal one so it takes some time to load GE. So when goops tries to auto start GE I get this error (see Photo). I have to wait until GE starts and then click retry could you disable it or change the time it waits? Maybe a registry key? Well it is a bit annoying. Also is it possible to have a setting to auto start GE when Goops is lunched? Just a request I guess!

**djmickyg** · 03-16-2006, 01:14 AM

Originally Posted by davidhite

I can add a setting to autostart GE when GooPs is launched.

just what i was going to ask for!

or is there some way to embed GE in some window in goops

atm ive got it embeded with skinbedder..

**RPM_VR4** · 03-16-2006, 04:09 AM

I wan't a demo of GooPs that goes from stopped to 80MPH to stopped again. It is possible to save a demo with a .KML log and have it play them with the current autozoom.cfg file so I can fine-tune it?

**spaceskater** · 03-16-2006, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by davidhite

Thanks spaceskater,
Can you capture and send me the nmea output when the problem occurs? If not I can make a special debug build for you to run.

I got some NMEA data! How can I send them to you? email? Total about 800K

Originally Posted by davidhite

I don't think I have any control over that dialog that comes up when Google Earth starts. I believe you can ignore it and it will go away on its own once Google Earth gets started.

Well GE is not open yet when I get the message... I thought it was Goops Server

Thanks David

**davidhite** · 03-16-2006, 02:25 PM

Thanks spaceskater - email to mygoops@gmail.com.

Originally Posted by spaceskater

I got some NMEA data! How can I send them to you? email? Total about 800K

Well GE is not open yet when I get the message... I thought it was Goops Server

Thanks David

**davidhite** · 03-17-2006, 12:24 AM

spaceskater,
It looks like some of your nmea GPRMC heading data is incorrect. GooPs does a sanity check and discards any sentences that contain invalid data. In your case many of the GPRMC sentences contain negative heading values. This will cause GooPs to appear to stop tracking. I'll have GooPs update the status bar to read "Invalid data received" when this happens. I think the other problems you see are coincidental.

Originally Posted by spaceskater

Hi David I've been meaning to ask you but had no time... I think you show my post in The Ublox DR thread. I have been following this from day one and first of all I just want to thanks you for your work, help and amazing support! The program is amazing! Now to my problem. Goops works fine with my old Haicom mouse GPS with the usual problems like the spin around when stopped or that my positions keeps moving around when stopped just a few feet but enough to be annoying but not a real problem. Now with my new DR GPS all these are eliminated and also well it has DR! but for some reason it does not work with Goops. Actually this what happens, I change the port to the gps and it starts working fine! Then it suddenly stops tracking for no apparent reason it read receiving data from GPS but nothing happens in GE. Then the only way to make it work again is to delete the current user being tracked. Not even reconnecting my old GPS does anything...

If I delete the user from settings and restart Goops then it works again until the same thing happens... I am suspecting that is is related to the DR mode. Maybe when there are no sats locked but DR is still tracking it confuses Goops? by the way the GPS is outputting NEMA data only.

I also have on emore problem. My computer in the car is a VIA EPIA SP13000. it is a bit slower than a normal one so it takes some time to load GE. So when goops tries to auto start GE I get this error (see Photo). I have to wait until GE starts and then click retry could you disable it or change the time it waits? Maybe a registry key? Well it is a bit annoying. Also is it possible to have a setting to auto start GE when Goops is lunched? Just a request I guess!

**RPM_VR4** · 03-17-2006, 01:16 AM

...very strange. Why is his GPS device outputting invalid data? Is it correct if you take away the negative? Maybe you should just ignore the negative for greater device compatibility (even if those devices are technically sending invalid data).

Anyway, I got a question and some feedback for you:

First off, how can you set the refresh to less than 1 second in GE? I could have sworn you told me I should be able to do that through GE, but it does not support decimals (or 0 seconds). Can you edit the registry setting manually or something?

Now on to the bug: Auto-zoom doesn't really seem to trigger all the settings properly. Sometimes it will show the picture of one speed with the angle of another, or the zoom-level. All settings interchange a bit. This makes my pictures (top/rear/default-arrow) not really match up with the zoom/tilt levels. If you make 3 or 4 line config file with all the settings drastically different and negative with different pictures you should be able to see what I mean. If you (don't)use the -'s properly you can get it to work ok, but I don't understand why it wouldn't work with all -'s.

Feature Request: Can you make the two images morph when not using negatives (jk, lol).