W3bTracker - GPS Tracking & Secure Location Marking (also offering Mologogo tracking)

**GizmoQ** · 03-11-2007, 04:43 PM

Well it was a nice try. I don't show any connectivity to the GPS or the server. Your exe is working my CPU, though, 74%. I think I may have a conflict with something in the registry. I didn't load your .OCX cause I already have one installed. Don't know how to check if its registered.

**W3bMa5t3r** · 03-11-2007, 04:59 PM

Hey guys, I'm heading to work, so when I get there I'm going to try working on the serial comm side of this. I'm really kind of at a loss, because I've tried this on 2 fresh testbed systems (aside from my main system and my carpc), without anything else and all that was required was the mscomm.ocx to be registered and the reg file added to the registry. As soon as I run the program it's pulling data... anywho, like I said, I'll be working on it in a few... 6pm-6am

**nkotch** · 03-11-2007, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by W3bMa5t3r

Hey guys, I'm heading to work, so when I get there I'm going to try working on the serial comm side of this. I'm really kind of at a loss, because I've tried this on 2 fresh testbed systems (aside from my main system and my carpc), without anything else and all that was required was the mscomm.ocx to be registered and the reg file added to the registry. As soon as I run the program it's pulling data... anywho, like I said, I'll be working on it in a few... 6pm-6am

Looking forward to getting this going! Like the other guy said it could be a conflict with something else we're running, hopefully we can get it straightened out. Tried it out on my laptop here inside as well as out in the car computer and couldn't get either to connect to the server or receive any GPS info. I am by no means a programmer but if there's anything I can do to help as far as testing/troubleshooting or emailing you any sort of troubleshooting debugging logs just let me know.

**W3bMa5t3r** · 03-11-2007, 06:30 PM

lol this is nuts. I can't NOT get data.. I've tried on 6 different systems.

If the program won't run period, you need to copy the MSCOMM.OCX file to your \Windows\System32\ folder and register it with START\RUN and this command:

Code:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSCOMM32.OCX

then go to the next step.

If your comm port shows 0 in the program, but the program will open and the correct comm port is set in the INI file, then the problem has been you need to import the REG file into your registry.

For those having issues, set your Upload Freq to around 1000 or 1500 and see if that changes anything.

**nkotch** · 03-11-2007, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by W3bMa5t3r

lol this is nuts. I can't NOT get data.. I've tried on 6 different systems.

If the program won't run period, you need to copy the MSCOMM.OCX file to your \Windows\System32\ folder and register it with START\RUN and this command:

Code:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSCOMM32.OCX

then go to the next step.

If your comm port shows 0 in the program, but the program will open and the correct comm port is set in the INI file, then the problem has been you need to import the REG file into your registry.

For those having issues, set your Upload Freq to around 1000 or 1500 and see if that changes anything.

No luck here, still get a "Not receiving gps data" popup error message. Went through all the steps again of registering the ocx file and adding the reg file to the registry.

**Cheekz185** · 03-11-2007, 07:14 PM

Yeah i havebeen testing it with Xport3 / Franson GPSGate and witout comport splitter and STILL NO data.... I dont understand! Could it be due to the different GPS chipset? I have SiRF III and maybe it can only read NMEA

**W3bMa5t3r** · 03-11-2007, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Cheekz185

Yeah i havebeen testing it with Xport3 / Franson GPSGate and witout comport splitter and STILL NO data.... I dont understand! Could it be due to the different GPS chipset? I have SiRF III and maybe it can only read NMEA

I don't think so, the data coming through is still to NEMA/GPS standards, meaning the GPS Sentences coming through, followed by a CRLF. The SIRF III chips just help get a fix quicker and calculate positions/fixes faster.. The sentences I'm using are $GPGGA and $GPRMC. The last one is the minimum data needed for a fix and is usually the most common and quickly fixed sentence. I'm pulling both these sentences for the data. The sentences are actually quite easy to figure out and work with... just trying to get the data from the gps unit to the program... something isn't flowing right. It does for me and on every system I've tested on... I just to add more error logging so we can figure out why it's not for everyone else.. lol

There are only a few of you all that actually have it going so far. :-\

**nkotch** · 03-11-2007, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Cheekz185

Yeah i havebeen testing it with Xport3 / Franson GPSGate and witout comport splitter and STILL NO data.... I dont understand! Could it be due to the different GPS chipset? I have SiRF III and maybe it can only read NMEA

SiRF III is the actual receiver chipset, NMEA is the output format, so they're really two different things and if you're currently using that gps with normal nav software then it should be outputing NMEA type data already.

**W3bMa5t3r** · 03-11-2007, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by nkotch

SiRF III is the actual receiver chipset, NMEA is the output format, so they're really two different things and if you're currently using that gps with normal nav software then it should be outputing NMEA type data already.

Yep

**W3bMa5t3r** · 03-11-2007, 08:44 PM

Those of you having issues, extract this file and drop it in the same folder as the W3bTrack.exe. Make sure you have the correct comm port set in the track_config.ini file. See if it gives you anything. This is stripped down to just read the gps line in. HOTKEY TO END IS "ESC". test_gps.zip
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