Transfer Tours

Tours can be transfered from the following devices on all platforms:

  • CM4xxM
  • Garmin GPS devices
  • HAC4
  • HAC4pro
  • HAC5

 

Requirements

  • the driver for the serial port must be installed, see here
  • the USB plug must be connected with the computer before the transfer dialog is opened

Transfer Settings

Open the transfer dialog with the action Daten vom Velocomputer einlesen in the Tour Import view raw data view

import dialog

 

Use Settings from: 

device and data path will be used from the selected person
Device: 

select a device which is connected with the computer
Data Path:

the raw data file with the transfered tour data will be saved automatically in the selected data path.

If the selected device is a HAC5, HAC4pro, HAC4 or CM4xxM the format of the filename is
YYYY-MM-TT.<ext> (<ext> is the extension of the selected device)

For Garmin devices each transfered track will be saved in the file
<trackname>.tcx

Serial Port: see below 
 
 
Serial Port 
When the transfer dialog is opened and a serial port is not available, the data transfer can not be performed.
no com port
 
Select Serial Port
On every supported platform the serial port has a different name:
 
MAC and Linux
Select the serial port which starts with the name /dev/tty or which contains the name usb
 
Device Manager
Windows
The serial port for the data transfer can be found in the device manager of Windows. The label which is displayed after the name USB Serial Port shows the serial port which is associated with the USB interface, in this case it's COM4


Start Data Transfer

Starting the data transfer is total different for each device. When the data transfer was successfull the tours should be displayed in the Data Import view.

 

Garmin GPS devices

Garmin protocol has to be selected as I/O format at the interface of the device. The data transfer is initialized from MyTourbook and starts immediately after pressing the Finish button.

 

HAC4 

The data transfer must be done in the correct sequence, otherwise it wouldn't work.

  1. Press the button Finish in the transfer dialog, Mytourbook will then wait for 60 seconds to receive data, after this time the dialog is closed automatically
  2. Start the transfer on HAC4
  • press button OR for 3 seconds, the display will then blink
  • press button OR 11 times then PC should be displayed
  • press buttons OL and UL at the same time, the transfer should start

HAC5

The data transfer is initialized from MyTourbook, by sending every 0.5 seconds a Byte to the HAC5 which is waiting for this Byte. When this Byte is received on HAC5, the transfer starts immediately. Therefore it doesn't matter in which sequence the transfer is startet.

Start transfer on HAC5
Select PC-Verbind in the menu and press the button in the middle, when this button is pressed again and the transfer is still running, the transfer is stopped

Start transfer in MyTourbook
Press Finish button in the transfer dialog