GPS Data Logger Software - BT747

Due to incompatibility with 10.4, I moved the use of the latest RXTX version to the following links:

http://soft.bt747.org/BT747_J2SE_Latest_rxtx2_2p2.jnlp
http://soft.bt747.org/BT747_J2SE_Latest_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp
http://soft.bt747.org/BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp

 

@raymac74: Your post got unattended to - is the status still the same?

This was done already but only visible on the english page of the webinstall - I now updated the German page.

I'll check about the icon.

are there any news here?

still have problems connecting via USB to snow leopard. I tried all versions but the BT747 is still not visible :(

thanks for your help

Hi,

first thank you, mdeweerd, for taking care and putting all the work in BT747 and the support.

Did you change BT747 Latest using RxTx 2.2pre2 (RxTx dev version) for Windows 32 & 64 bit, MacOSX, Linux in the last two or three weeks? I tried it a month ago after having installed Snow Leopard and it worked, but when I tried again last week, it stopped working. My problem is, that I get no connection to my M-241.

When I click on "find serial port" he selects the "Bluetooth".

Thank you in advance!

------------------------------------------------

Die Desktop-Version von BT747 läuft nun recht stabil.

Sie ist noch nicht offiziell freigegeben, da noch einige Funktionen benutzerfreundlicher gestaltet werden

------------------------------------------------

 

4592 - BT747 2.X.1596 Build:BT747_mdeweerd.1596.20091101221324234

4592 - Initial: 1085x569  Screen: 1280x800 Final: 1085x569

4592 - Mac OS X

4593 - x86_64

4593 - 10.6

4593 - 1.6.0_15

4594 - Fehlerjavax.swing.plaf.mac.MacLookAndFeel

Fehlercom.apple.mrj.swing.MacLookandFeel

Erfolgreichapple.laf.AquaLookAndFee

javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel

com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel

apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel

gnu.io.NoSuchPortException

at gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifier(CommPortIdentifier.java:269)

at gps.connection.GPSRxTxPort.openPort(Unknown Source)

at gps.connection.GPSrxtx.myOpenPort(Unknown Source)

at gps.connection.GPSrxtx.setUSBAndOpen(Unknown Source)

at bt747.model.Controller.setUsb(Unknown Source)

at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main.access$300(Unknown Source)

at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main$6.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2028)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2351)

at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)

at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)

at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6348)

at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)

at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6113)

at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2085)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4714)

at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2143)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4544)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4618)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4282)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4212)

at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2129)

at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2475)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4544)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:635)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

14723 - 

Listing known ports:

14731 - SER  :/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync

14731 - SER  :/dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync

14732 - SER  :/dev/tty.K810i-SerialPort-1

14732 - SER  :/dev/cu.K810i-SerialPort-1

14732 - SER  :/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem

14732 - SER  :/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem

14732 - SER  :/dev/tty.K810i-Dial-upNetworking-2

14733 - SER  :/dev/cu.K810i-Dial-upNetworking-2

gnu.io.NoSuchPortException

at gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifier(CommPortIdentifier.java:269)

at gps.connection.GPSRxTxPort.openPort(Unknown Source)

at gps.connection.GPSrxtx.myOpenPort(Unknown Source)

at gps.connection.GPSrxtx.setBluetoothAndOpen(Unknown Source)

at bt747.model.Controller.setBluetooth(Unknown Source)

at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main.access$300(Unknown Source)

at bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main$6.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2028)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2351)

at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)

at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)

at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6348)

at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)

at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6113)

at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2085)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4714)

at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2143)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4544)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4618)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4282)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4212)

at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2129)

at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2475)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4544)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:635)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

17615 - 

Listing known ports:

17619 - SER  :/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync

17620 - SER  :/dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync

17620 - SER  :/dev/tty.K810i-SerialPort-1

17621 - SER  :/dev/cu.K810i-SerialPort-1

17621 - SER  :/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem

17621 - SER  :/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem

17621 - SER  :/dev/tty.K810i-Dial-upNetworking-2

17621 - SER  :/dev/cu.K810i-Dial-upNetworking-2

 

p.s. sorry for the code mess, but I did not manage to format it correctly

I'm on 10.6.2, a Mac Pro using the local install version of BT747, can't communicate with my new BT-Q1000X.

I DID download the lastest SILAB drivers and rebooted and I see the cu.usbmodem and tty.usbmodem devices.  I also got the RXTX2.2 update as you can see.

Here are suspicious excerpts from my log:

com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: Listing known ports:

com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: 22703 - SER  :/dev/tty.usbmodem3d20

com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: 22703 - SER  :/dev/cu.usbmodem3d20

.com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: Info: trying to open '/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART'

.com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: gnu.io.NoSuchPortException

It looks like the SILAB driver is not instantiating the USB->UART bridge device?  I definitely don't see it in my /dev directory.  I also see these version mismatch messages when BT474 starts up but I suspect they're benign (?):

com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: WARNING:  RXTX Version mismatch

com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: Jar version = RXTX-2.2pre1

com.apple.jnlp-http___soft.bt747.org_BT747_J2SE_RXTX2.2_Install.jnlp[2692]: native lib Version = RXTX-2.2pre2

Andybody solve this problem?

Steve

Hi,

went over all those posts and tried it. 

MacBook Pro. Snow Leopard. USB-Link. Latest version.

Unable to connect via USB or Bluetooth.

Tried on iMac with Snow Leopard. Still no connection.

Keen to have guide "BT747 and Snow Leopard for Dummies".

Cheers

Alex

Dear everyone,

first off, thanks to Mario for this great piece of software.

I have struggled a bit to download my tracks from my Qstarz BT-Q1200 using a Mac. Since this thread proved very helpful, here is my step-by-step solution:

My step-by-step list to connect BT747 Desktop to my Qstarz BT-Q1200

MacBookPro, Snow Leopard 10.6.2

BT747 V2.x.1689 (11.03.2010) 

 

1)    Open Bluetooth from System Preferences

a.     Turn Bluetooth on

b.     Set up Bluetooth device ( a new window appears)

                                               i.     iBT-GPS appears (my Qstarz BT Q1200)

                                             ii.     push <continue>

                                            iii.     a message appears: “congratulations, your computer is now set up to use your BT device; *Pairing was completed successfully; *A computer serial port was created

                                            iv.     <quit> ( the new window disappears again)

c.     Select your bluetooth device (mine: iBT-GPS)

                                               i.     Below the column with Bluetooth devices, there are three clickable buttons: a ‘+’ (for adding BT devices), a ‘-‘ (for …) and a cogwheel. Click-hold the cogwheel and select “edit serial ports”

                                             ii.     a new window pops up, with lots of info. Important: at the bottom, there is a path shown. Select the path and copy it (in my case: /dev/tty.iBT-GPS-SPPSlave )

                                            iii.     hit <cancel>  we don’t want to edit stuff

d.     quit the Bluetooth System preference

2)    Open BT747.

a.     I used safari and opened: http://soft.bt747.org/BT747_J2SE_Latest_rxtx2_2p2.jnlp

b.     In the first tab ”log operations”, at the bottom of the scree there is a <connect> button, with next to it a text box saying USB (for Linux, Mac). Paste your Bluetooth path into this box (again: mine is /dev/tty.iBT-GPS-SPPSlave

c.     Hit <connect>

d.     Voila, here’s my device. I suddenly see my location in GPS device data.

 

Note, BT747 reliably crashes upon disconnecting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Joost

Apparently you tried to make a post but the SPAM filter rejected it because of its size.  In principle it should be possible for you to add attachements to a post.  Currently I managed to extract your log from the server error message.

Further below I extracted the most caracteristic information.  From that information I can see that BT747 crashes during the close procedure in the RXTX driver itself, apparently when an  internal event listener is removed from a listener list and when the interrupt event loop is called -> I have to check the RXTX code to understand what is done.

Out of interest, can you check the size of: /Users/joost/Library/Caches/Java/cache/6.0/59/7a4d98fb-65e45c6a-n/librxtxSerial.jnilib .  The size can help validate that you are using the 'right' version of the native library (I think that you are, but one has to check the basic assumptions: they quite often prove wrong).

I am assuming that you launch from http://soft.bt747.org/BT747_J2SE_Latest_rxtx2_2p2.jnlp (based on your earlier post).

/Users/joost/Library/Caches/Java/cache/6.0/59/7a4d98fb-65e45c6a-n/librxtxSerial.jnilib
 
Architecture: X86-64
Os version:  Mac OS X 10.6.2
 
Stack trace:
Current thread (0x00000001020f0800):  JavaThread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [_thread_in_native, id=793907200, stack(0x000000012f421000,0x000000012f521000)]
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000012ea9b938
Crashed Thread:  24  Java: AWT-EventQueue-0
Application Specific Information:
 
Java information:
Exception type: Bus Error (0xa) at pc=0x000000011ab0412f
Stack: [0x000000012f421000,0x000000012f521000]
 
Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
 
j  gnu.io.RXTXPort.interruptEventLoop()V+0
j  gnu.io.RXTXPort.removeEventListener()V+55
j  gnu.io.RXTXPort.close()V+91
j  gps.connection.GPSRxTxPort.closePort()V+62
j  gps.connection.GPSrxtx.closePort()V+4
j  bt747.model.Controller.closeGPS()V+17
j  bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main.access$300(Lbt747/j2se_view/BT747Main;Ljava/awt/event/ActionEvent;)V+299
j  bt747.j2se_view.BT747Main$7.actionPerformed(Ljava/awt/event/ActionEvent;)V+5
j  javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Ljava/awt/event/ActionEvent;)V+84
j  javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Ljava/awt/event/ActionEvent;)V+5
j  javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Ljava/awt/event/ActionEvent;)V+35
j  javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Z)V+117
j  javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Ljava/awt/event/MouseEvent;)V+35
j  java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Ljava/awt/event/MouseEvent;)V+64
j  javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Ljava/awt/event/MouseEvent;)V+23
j  java.awt.Component.processEvent(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+81
j  java.awt.Container.processEvent(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+18
j  java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+566
j  java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+42
j  java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+2
j  java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Ljava/awt/Component;ILjava/awt/event/MouseEvent;)V+320
j  java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Ljava/awt/event/MouseEvent;)Z+139
j  java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)Z+50
j  java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+12
j  java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+19
j  java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+2
j  java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Ljava/awt/AWTEvent;)V+46
j  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(I)Z+204
j  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(ILjava/awt/Conditional;Ljava/awt/EventFilter;)V+30
j  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(ILjava/awt/Conditional;Ljava/awt/Component;)V+11
j  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(ILjava/awt/Conditional;)V+4
j  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Ljava/awt/Conditional;)V+3
j  java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run()V+9
 

I didn't look in the RXTX code yet to get further hints.  I'll post here when I do that.

Hi Mario, Here is another crash report, again started from http://soft.bt747.org/BT747_J2SE_Latest_rxtx2_2p2.jnlp.

If the post fails, please explain how to attach the error log to a message. I didn't find any attachment options JOost 

Attachment	Size
joost_report.txt	62.73 KB

Some more infos from a Mac users perspective:

In a 64-bit Mac OS X 10.6.3 environment (=all the latest Macs I suppose), only the pre2 version works. If you're using a USB cable to connect to your GPS logger with the SiLabs drivers you're S.O.L. if you're running Mac OS in 64-bit mode. There's no 64-bit SiLab USB<->UART driver at the moment. Of course you could run your Mac in 32-bit mode but that's sooo old school :)

So, the only connection option left in my case is Bluetooth (I own the Holux M-241). No additional drivers are needed, I just paired it with the Bluetooth Assistant (BA). Once it's paired I have a new device in my /dev directory named tty.HOLUX_M-241-SPPSlave. This is what I enter in BT747 in the text box as the connection string:

/dev/tty.HOLUX_M-241-SPPSlave 

And hit the connect button. That's it. Make sure Bluetooth is enabled in the GPS logger.

Btw. Mario: At least in my case hitting the Disconnect button terminates the application. 

There are some instructions on defaulting to 32bit java on this page:

http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-java-and-snow-leopard

That would not solve the issue of the native driver on a 64 bit machine, but hopefully solves the BT747 issues itself.

To delete the application, you have to (or can/should) do this in the 'Java Console or Control panel' [I am not sure how to get to that on Mac].

Regarding not being able to connect: do you have the device driver installed on the Mac ?  Possibly that was installed on your desktop for some other reason and not on your MacBook.

Alternatively, you can fetch the zip file from the sourceforge file and launch BT747 from there.

Kind regards

Mario

It is best to give more details regarding your device and system: which Qstarz device is it?  Are both your systems 32 bit (a forum entry above says that Silabs drivers do not exist for 64 bit).

In stead of USB, you should be able to use Bluetooth as a backup solution.

Your device is using MTKII - I'll have to look again regarding the native mac driver setup.

Regarding bluetooth - make sure that a new entry appears in the '/dev' directory when bluetooth is connected.  Normally that path should be detected automatically as on your desktop, but it could be that it is not recognized.  You can also enter it directly as the port name.

It is possible that you have an issue with RXTX on your laptop - maybe you can share the error code you get to make sure what it is.