Data Transfer Installation
Tour data can be transfered with these devices on all platforms:

 os linux
os apple
os windows
CM4xxM *) data transfer cm436m mac
data transfer cm436m windows
Garmin  data transfer garmin linux *)  data transfer garmin windows
HAC4 

data transfer hac4 linux

 *)

data transfer hac4 windows

HAC4Pro 

data transfer hac4pro linux

data transfer hac4pro mac

data transfer hac4pro windows

HAC5 data transfer hac5 linux data transfer hac5 mac data transfer hac5 windows
*) When you have the missing screenshots for the data transfer, send them to wolfgang-ch at users.sourceforge.net and I'll publish it here
 
When the installation is completet the data transfer should work, see here how to transfer data.
 
RxTx Driver 
The serial port driver RxTx is used for the data transfer. MyTourbook contains this driver for all platforms therefore it must not be installed. 
 
Hardware Driver 
However a hardware driver is required to transform the USB interface into a virtual serial port. For the USB interface a hardware is used from FTDI Chip which provides a hardware driver
for all platforms.

os linux
Linux

The hardware driver is included in the Linux kernel since version 2.4.20

I developed and tested the data transfer with Windows XP. When I tested the data transfer on Ubuntu 6.10 it worked immediately without any additional installation or configuration.
Such a case happens very rarely in the IT but it worked :-)


Additional Info using a Garmin Device

After testing I found Mytourbook is great under Ubuntu Linux. This is the winner of the Best Open Source Eclipse RCP Application award in 2008. Mytourbook can transfer or import tours from GPS via a serial port. I use "usb:" to talk to my GPS devices. I don't use a serial port. To create a serial port as "dev/ttyUSB0", I load manually an old garmin_gps driver by the following executable script. This driver is blacklisted since Ubuntu 8.04.

#!/bin/sh
sudo /sbin/modprobe garmin_gps


To unload manually the garmin_gps driver I execute this script:

#!/bin/sh
sudo /sbin/rmmod garmin_gps


I hope this help Mytourbook users in Ubuntu Linux.
 
os apple
Mac OSX

I) Install hardware driver

The hardware driver can be downloaded from the manufacturer web site, use the correct Mac OSX version, an installation guide is also available. 

 

II) Configure RxTx driver

Since version 1.2.0 of MyTourbook it is not necessary to configure the RxTx driver, for older versions, here are the configuration instruction: 

Using the Mac OSX installation program (since version 0.8.8) 

the installation program of Mac OSX runs a script which configures the RxTx driver automatically


Without Mac OSX installation programm

it is required to run the following script which makes some settings in the system 

#!/bin/sh
curruser=`sudo id -p | grep 'login' | sed 's/login.//'`

if [ ! -d /var/lock ]
then
    sudo mkdir /var/lock
fi

sudo chgrp uucp /var/lock
sudo chmod 775 /var/lock

if [ ! `sudo niutil -readprop / /groups/uucp users | grep $curruser > /dev/null` ]
then
    sudo niutil -mergeprop / /groups/uucp users $curruser
fi
 
os windows
Windows
Is the program HACtronic installed and it works successfully then the data transfer with MyTourbook should also work, because during the installation of HACtronic the hardware driver from FTDI is also installed, otherwise this hardware driver must be installed.

 

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