Crane GPS Watch client v.0.1 (crane_gps_watch_client)

11 November 2014

Developer: Rudolf Mühlbauer [email protected]

Crane GPS Watch client is a client for downloading track files in tcx format from certain GPS watches.

Supported Watches:

• Crane GPS Watch from Aldi/Hofer https://www.produktservice.info/20014414/20014414.html
• Conrad GPS Nav II http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/372884/Multi-NAV-2-GPS-Pulsuhr-mit-Brustgurt-Schwarz
• Runtastic Gps Watch https://www.runtastic.com/shop/en/runtastic-gps-watch-with-heart-rate-monitor

This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details or file COPYING.

Installation:

This program uses libxml2. Please install libxml2 before building Crane GPS Watch client.

Crane GPS Watch client uses make to build:

1. Download source code archive from githup repo:

git clone https://github.com/mru00/crane_gps_watch.git

2. cd to unpacking directory
3. build the software

make

Resulting binary file crane_gps_watch_client you can copy to destination folder e.g. /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

USAGE:

crane_gps_watch_client --help      show the help screen

crane_gps_watch_client 
[--output "filename"]            override default filename
[--split]                        write file for each track
[--device "/dev/tty..."]         override default device file
[--verbose]                      write debug output to console

As default, the output file is written in the current working directory. The filename is created from the current time and date. Use the --output option to specify a different filename.

The --device option is used to specify the device file, default is '/dev/ttyUSB0'.

--split makes the program write a single .tcx for every track currently stored on the watch. Default is to write a single .tcx file that contains all tracks. When this option is used, the --output option is ignored. The files are written in the current directory. The filename is taken from the start time of the workout track. If a file already exists, it will be overwritten.

Resulting track file in tcx format you can convert into gpx format by means of gpsbabel or use tcx format as it is.

Enjoy!

Version History:

0.1:	:initial release.

See Also:

"My Tourbook": http://mytourbook.sourceforge.net/mytourbook/ works great with the tcx files.

"Viking GPS data editor and analyzer" http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/

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