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PRETEC

Bluetooth GPS User Manual V.1.2

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9/15/2003 V.1.0

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Page 1: ...i PRETEC Bluetooth GPS User Manual V 1 2 Revision History Data Revision Note 9 15 2003 V 1 0 ...

Page 2: ... 3 4 Bluetooth Status LED Blue 5 2 3 5 GPS Status LED Green 5 2 3 6 Battery Status LED Red Yellow 5 2 4 Getting Started 6 2 4 1 STEP 1 Charge the Battery 6 2 4 2 STEP 2 Turn on Receiver and Wait for GPS Fix 6 2 4 3 STEP 3 Connect to Bluetooth Enabled Devices 6 2 4 4 STEP 4 Use GPS Application 6 3 Installation 7 3 1 Install PDA Software Application 8 3 2 Install PC Software Application 13 4 Softwar...

Page 3: ...ng Limit km hr 20 4 3 5 Include Altitude Info 21 4 3 6 When Flash Full 21 OK 21 4 4 Download data 21 4 4 1 File Name 22 4 4 2 Progress Bar 22 4 4 3 Recorded Number 22 4 4 4 Remaining Space 22 4 4 5 Process Data After Download 22 4 4 6 Start 22 4 4 7 Stop 22 4 5 Data Process 22 4 5 1 File Name 23 4 5 2 Data Type 23 4 5 3 Set Working Time 23 4 6 Convert To NMEA 23 4 6 1 File Name 24 4 6 2 Start 24 4...

Page 4: ...11 1 Enable Password Protection 28 4 11 2 New Password 28 4 11 3 Confirm Password 28 4 11 4 OK 28 4 11 5 Cancel 28 4 12 About 29 5 Software Application User Manual for PC 30 5 1 Application User Interface 30 5 2 Connection Page 31 5 2 1 Device Name 31 5 2 2 Change 31 5 2 3 COM Port 31 5 2 4 Connect 32 5 2 5 Auto Scan 32 5 2 6 Disconnect 32 5 3 Navigation Page 33 5 3 1 NMEA Mode SiRF Mode 33 5 3 2 ...

Page 5: ...pace 37 5 6 5 Process Data After Download 37 5 6 6 Start 37 5 6 7 Stop 37 5 7 Data Process 38 5 7 1 File Name 38 5 7 2 Data Type 38 5 7 3 Set Working Time 39 5 8 Convert To NMEA 39 5 8 1 File Name 39 5 8 2 Start 39 5 8 3 Stop 39 5 8 4 Close 39 5 9 Connect To Map 40 5 9 1 Auto Replay 40 5 9 2 GPS Port 40 5 9 3 Baud rate 40 5 9 4 Play Speed 40 5 9 5 Play 41 5 9 6 Pause 41 5 9 7 Stop 41 5 9 8 Close 4...

Page 6: ... 5 11 1 Map Application Path 42 5 11 2 Set 43 5 11 3 Change Password 43 5 12 Change Password 44 5 12 1 Enable Password Protection 44 5 12 2 New Password 44 5 12 3 Confirm Password 44 5 12 4 OK 44 5 12 5 Cancel 44 5 13 About 45 ...

Page 7: ...thGPS can last more than 12 hours in continuous operation mode Its mobility helps to keep best GPS receiving performance and provides excellent navigation to any kind of mobile devices 1 1 2 Mobile Data logger BluetoothGPS also provides off line mobile GPS data logging capability And we also provide many useful applications in host for keeping more than 30 000 records of data bank for analysis It ...

Page 8: ...C to 60 ºC Charger operating temperature range 0 ºC to 40 ºC Battery Storage temperature range 20 ºC to 50 ºC The life cycle of built in Li ion battery is 500 times after 500 times charging the capacity of battery will reduce Humidity range up to 95 no condensing 1 4 Application Navigation Data Logging Fleet Management Dangerous goods monitoring Personal Locator Consumer wireless GPS ...

Page 9: ...3 2 2 Q Qu ui ic ck k S St ta ar rt t 2 1 Control Switch Power Jack Antenna Port Power Switch ...

Page 10: ...isplay Green light indicates power on Flashing Green light indicates GPS position fixed Flashing red light indicates low power Yellow light indicates charging Flashing Blue light indicates Bluetooth in connection ...

Page 11: ...an use it instead of the BluetoothGP receiver s internal antenna Simply plug your external antenna into the antenna port 2 3 4 Bluetooth Status LED Blue Flashing Bluetooth is on and ready to transmit 2 3 5 GPS Status LED Green Flashing Position is fixed Steady light Device is on but position is not fixed 2 3 6 Battery Status LED Red Yellow None Battery has adequate power supply Red Power is low Ch...

Page 12: ...lication 2 4 3 STEP 3 Connect to Bluetooth Enabled Devices 1 From your Bluetooth enabled mobile device perform a Bluetooth device discovery Refer to the user documentation for your Bluetooth enabled device for instructions 2 After connection is created between Bluetooth enabled device and Bluetooth GPS the LED will show flashing blue light 2 4 4 STEP 4 Use GPS Application 1 Load your GPS mapping o...

Page 13: ...ware application Click the Software for Pocket PC 2002 Software for Pocket PC 2003 to install the PDA software application Click the User Manual to open the user manual of Bluetooth GPS Click the View Our Website to link our http www pretec com please make sure your PC connects to Internet first Click the Browse CD Contents to open the explorer to browse the files within the CD ...

Page 14: ...ftware for Pocket PC 2003 to install the PDA software application from CD you have to synchronize the PDA and your system Then the following window will show in your system as below Click Yes to continue Or click No to select the other destination to install or Cancel to give up installation ...

Page 15: ...9 If the screen of PDA shows link mode The PC will show the windows as below to install the GPS serial port driver to your PDA ...

Page 16: ...s to continue Or click No to select the other destination to install or Cancel to give up installation After click Yes system will install the GPS serial port driver and shows the following message window as below ...

Page 17: ...11 After finish installation of Bluetooth GPS PDA software and GPS serial port driver the screen of your PDA will show the following message box ...

Page 18: ...12 Note About to install the software application to your PDA please refer to your user manual of your PDA manufacture ...

Page 19: ...ll PC Software Application Install the pc software application from CD When screen shows the installation window as follows Click Next to continue Or click Back to back last stage or Cancel to give up installation ...

Page 20: ... to give up installation You can select the folder to install the PC version Bluetooth GPS software application by click Change and select the folder from your hard disk The default folder is C Program Files Pretec Bluetooth GPS Or click Back to back last stage or Cancel to give up installation ...

Page 21: ...Click Install to start installation Or click Back to back last stage or Cancel to give up installation Then start installation And finish installation will ask you to restart your computer as follow window ...

Page 22: ...I want to restart my computer now and click Finish to finish the Installation And your desktop will appear the Bluetooth GPS icon You can double click the Bluetooth GPS icon to execute the Bluetoot GPS software application ...

Page 23: ...alog 4 1 1 Device Name When connection is successful it will show the Device s ID Name automatically 4 1 2 Change When connection is successful the Change Button will be workable If you want to change the Device s Name please enter the new Device s ID Name in the BluetoothGPS ID field then click Change button to upload the Device s ID Name to BluetoothGPS 4 1 3 COM Port Indicate Bluetooth serial c...

Page 24: ... appears If the window is shown as Figure 3 it means the connection is failed please try it again 4 1 5 Auto Scan Automatically scan the BluetoothGPS COM port in order to connect to BluetoothGPS device 4 1 6 Disconnect Disconnect to the BluetoothGPS device Note When performing the Auto Scan the user has to wait for a while because it will need time to get necessary system information from Bluetoot...

Page 25: ...able or disable degraded mode 4 2 3 Elevation mask Elevation mask setting 4 2 4 DOP Mask DOP mask type and DOP mask value setting 4 2 5 SBAS Mode Enable or disable SBAS function 4 2 6 Default Reset values of this dialog into default value It has not changed the setting of device yet You still need to push OK button if you want to change the setting of device 4 2 7 OK Upload the parameters to the B...

Page 26: ...cluding the When Log Space Full menu 4 3 2 Constant Distance Enable disable the logging function according to the value in right field Set up how far to log the data once The unit of distance is meter 4 3 3 Constant Time Enable disable the logging function according to the value of DD HH MM and SS Set up how long to log the data once 4 3 4 Speeding Limit km hr Enable disable the logging function a...

Page 27: ...By this dialog you can download the GPS datalog from BluetoothGPS device The saved file format is a more readable but proprietary file format If you choose view data after download application will switch to Processing dialog automatically after download is finished Mode Download delete Download and delete the data logs Download only Download data logs but not delete them Delete only Just delete t...

Page 28: ...ce The percentage of remaining space 4 4 5 Process Data After Download Switch to Processing dialog automatically after download is finished 4 4 6 Start Start downloading 4 4 7 Stop Stop downloading 4 5 Data Process In this dialog you can process the downloaded data log file You can convert the downloaded file format to standard NMEA file by Convert to NMEA File In addition you can directly output ...

Page 29: ...d by distance event Speeding data output the data logged by exceeding the speed limit Overtime data output the data exclude the working time 4 5 3 Set Working Time If you choose Overtime data in Data Type you can set your normal working time Then the process result will show the data log excluding working time Note Exceed Working Time only provide regular setting It can not take holiday into accou...

Page 30: ...log 4 7 Connect To Map If you want to directly output converted NMEA sentence to a navigation application you can use this function These main features of this window are to convert the downloading data to NMEA format and transmit to map software The map software of the third party will read the NMEA data directly and display the route on any kind of map RMC GGA GLL and VTG Select which sentence w...

Page 31: ...econds etc Suggestion 1 In order to get proper navigation application please select the recommend baud rate by third party navigation map software 2 Mostly set up higher output baud rate for faster play speed 4 7 5 Play Start to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software 4 7 6 Pause Pause to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software 4 7 7 Stop Sto...

Page 32: ...for best system performance 4 9 2 Optimal Battery Use Select to optimize the battery usage 4 9 3 Manual Setting Select for adjusting the Update Rate and On Time value Suggestion Optimized for the device by selecting Maximum Navigation Performance or Optimal Battery Use for default value setting ...

Page 33: ...on Path Using this dialog to set the Navigation application execution file path If you set it application will auto run the navigation application when you push play button in Connect to Map dialog 4 10 2 Set Display the Change Password dialog 4 10 3 Change Password Change and upload the password ...

Page 34: ...d Protection Enable or disable password protection 4 11 2 New Password Input your new password 4 11 3 Confirm Password Input your new password again to prevent from typing error 4 11 4 OK Change to the new password 4 11 5 Cancel Give up the change ...

Page 35: ...29 4 12 About This page shows the software version and the copyright claim ...

Page 36: ...right in your desktop to run the software after install the BluetoothGPS software Then you can see the BluetoothGPS window as Figure 1 You can choose the button in the left side to open the dialogs for each function setting such as Connection Navigation Datalog Download Processing Mode Configuration About And use the left up buttons to minimize or close the window ...

Page 37: ...ll show the Device s ID Name automatically 5 2 2 Change When connection is successful the Change Button will be workable If you want to change the Device s Name please enter the new Device s ID Name in the BluetoothGPS ID field then click Change button to upload the Device s ID Name to BluetoothGPS 5 2 3 COM Port Set up the BluetoothGPS COM Port ...

Page 38: ...the window is shown as Figure 3 it means the connection failed please try again 5 2 5 Auto Scan Automatically scans the BluetoothGPS COM Port and baud rate in order to connect BluetoothGPS device 5 2 6 Disconnect Disconnect to the BluetoothGPS device Note When perform Auto Scan user has to wait for a while because it will take time to get necessary system information from BluetoothGPS Figure 1 Fig...

Page 39: ...ble degraded mode 5 3 3 Elevation mask To set the parameter of the Elevation mask 5 3 4 DOP Mask DOP mask type and DOP mask value setting 5 3 5 SBAS Mode Enable or disable SBAS function 5 3 6 Default Reset values of this dialog into default value It has not changed the setting of device yet You still need to push OK button if you want to change the setting of device 5 3 7 OK Upload the parameters ...

Page 40: ...able disable the data log function in device If without selecting this item then no other item can be selected Excluding the When Flash Full menu 5 4 2 Constant Distance Enable disable the logging function according to the value in right field Set up how far to log the data once The unit of distance is meter 5 4 3 Constant Time Enable disable the logging function according to the value of DD HH MM...

Page 41: ...n the data 5 5 5 When Flash Full Overwrite BluetoothGPS will overwrite the older data when memory is full Unit sector Stop BluetoothGPS will stop logging data when memory is full 5 5 6 OK Upload the setting to the BluetoothGPS 5 6 Download data By this dialog you can download the GPS datalog from BluetoothGPS device The saved file format is a more readable but proprietary file format If you choose...

Page 42: ...datalog info only get how many data is stored in BluetoothGPS device and the percentage of remaining space 5 6 1 File Name Select the folder and the file name to save the data 5 6 2 Progress Bar Show the downloading progress In the right side of progress bar you can see the downloaded percentage 5 6 3 Recorded Number The total number of datalog records in device ...

Page 43: ...Remaining Space Show remaining space by percentage 5 6 5 Process Data After Download Switch to Processing dialog automatically after download is finished 5 6 6 Start Start downloading 5 6 7 Stop Stop downloading ...

Page 44: ...arty navigation software such as PaPaGo 5 7 1 File Name Choose the source file you want to process The source file must be the downloaded file in download dialog 5 7 2 Data Type Set up the term of data to filter All data output all data Time output the data logged by time event Distance output the data logged by distance event Speeding data output the data logged by exceeding the speed limit Overt...

Page 45: ...Note Exceed Working Time only provide regular setting It can not take holiday into account 5 8 Convert To NMEA You can convert the downloaded data into NMEA file 5 8 1 File Name Select the folder and the file name to save the data RMC GGA GLL and VTG Select which sentence will be converted 5 8 2 Start Start converting 5 8 3 Stop Stop converting 5 8 4 Close Close this dialog ...

Page 46: ...GGA GLL and VTG Select which sentence will be converted 5 9 1 Auto Replay Play the NMEA data circulating 5 9 2 GPS Port Set up the GPS COM port of Third Party s map software 5 9 3 Baud rate Set up the output baud rate 5 9 4 Play Speed Set up the Play Speed by speed combo box selection 1X stands for 1 second 2X stands for 1 2 seconds 4X stands for 1 4 seconds etc Suggestion 1 In order to get proper...

Page 47: ...navigation software 5 9 6 Pause Pause to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software 5 9 7 Stop Stop to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software 5 9 8 Close Close this dialog 5 10 Mode Use this page for power mode setting ...

Page 48: ...Suggestion Optimized for the device by selecting Maximum Navigation Performance or Optimal Battery Use for default value setting 5 11 Configuration Use this page to set the system configuration values 5 11 1 Map Application Path Using this dialog to set the Navigation application execution file path If you set it application will auto run the navigation application when you push play button in Con...

Page 49: ...43 5 11 2 Set Display the Change Password dialog 5 11 3 Change Password Change and upload the password ...

Page 50: ...ord Protection Enable or disable password protection 5 12 2 New Password Input your new password 5 12 3 Confirm Password Input your new password again for fear of typing error 5 12 4 OK Change to the new password 5 12 5 Cancel Give up the change ...

Page 51: ...5 5 13 About This page shows the software version and the copyright claim Contact C One Technology Corp B1 57 Dong Guang Road Hsin Chu Taiwan Tel 886 3 572 3438 Fax 886 3 572 4806 Website www pretec com ...

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