BlueGPS Software User Manual v. 1.0 Prepared by RoyalTek Company LTD.
FCC Compliance and Advisory Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and 2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. The equipment has been certified to comply with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Content A Product Introduction ............................................................. 1 A.1 Overview................................................................................................1 A.1.1 Wireless GPS receiver: ..................................................................1 A.1.2 Mobile Data-logger........................................................................1 A.2 Main Feature ..........................................................................................1 A.
D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 D.6 D.7 D.1.5 Auto Scan:....................................................................................19 D.1.6 Disconnect: ..................................................................................19 Navigation Page ...................................................................................20 D.2.1 NMEA Mode / SiRF Mode:.........................................................20 D.2.2 Degraded Mode:..................................................................
D.7.3 Baud rate: .....................................................................................25 D.7.4 Play Interval (Unit: 1 sec):...........................................................25 D.7.5 Play: .............................................................................................25 D.7.6 Pause: ...........................................................................................25 D.7.7 Stop: ....................................................................................
E.5.2 Constant Distance: .......................................................................33 E.5.3 Constant Time: .............................................................................33 E.5.4 Speeding Limit (km/hr): ..............................................................33 E.5.5 Include Altitude Info:...................................................................34 E.5.6 When Flash Full...........................................................................34 E.5.7 OK:...........
E.11.2 New Password:.............................................................................41 E.11.3 Confirm Password:.......................................................................41 E.11.4 OK:...............................................................................................41 E.11.5 Cancel: .........................................................................................41 E.12 About: .......................................................................................
A Product Introduction A.1 Overview BlueGPSTM－Wireless GPS and Mobile Data-logger A.1.1 Wireless GPS receiver: The RoyalTek BlueGPSTM product is a wireless GPS receiver to provide real time navigation data to mobile device such as PDA, tablet PC and notebook. The device dimension is 105(L) x 55.5(W) x 26 (H) mm and built-in battery. The totally wireless GPS receiver makes things easy to any application including navigation and position, velocity, time information providing.
On/off switch Dimension: 105(L) x 55.5 (W) x 26(H) mm A.3 Product Notification Operating temperature range -20 ºC 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 A.
B Quick Start B.
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B.3 Hardware Features B.3.1 Power Switch Power ON / Power OFF B.3.2 Power Jack The power jack lets you connect to either a DC (included) or AC power charger to recharge the internal battery. B.3.3 External Antenna Port If you have an external antenna with a male MCX connector (available separately), you can use it instead of the BlueGPS™ receiver’s internal antenna. Simply plug your external antenna into the antenna port. B.3.
off. Unplug the device and remove the charger. B.4.2 1. 2. The GPS Status LED will initially show a steady green light to show that the position has not been fixed yet. After the position is fixed, the GPS Status LED will twinkle green. Now you are ready to connect to your Bluetooth-enabled mobile device and use your GPS application. B.4.3 1. 2. 2. 3. STEP 3: Connect to Bluetooth-Enabled Devices From your Bluetooth-enabled mobile device, perform a Bluetooth device discovery.
C Installation The Main Menu of Installation CD shows as above. Click the Driver for Windows 2000/XP; Driver for Windows 9X/ME to install the PC software application. Click the Driver for PocketPC to install the PDA software application. Click the User Manual to open the user manual of BlueGPS. Click the View Our Website to link our http://www.royaltek.com, please make sure your PC connect to Internet first. Click the Browse CD Contents to open the explorer to browse the files within the CD.
C.1 Install PDA Software Application Install the pc software application from CD. When screen shows the installation window as follows. Click “Next>” to continue. Or click”
Click “ I accept the terms of the license agreement” then click “Next>” to continue. Enter User Name and Company Name, then click “Next>” Or click”” Or click”
If you choose the “Complete” installation you will see the window as above, or you can see the window as below if you choose the Custom installation.
You can select the folder to install the PC version BlueGPS software application by click “Change” and select the folder from your hard disk. The default folder is C:\Program Files\RoyalTek\BlueGPS. Or click”” to continue. Or click”
Click “Install” to start installation. Or click”
Please click “Yes, I want to restart my computer now” and click “Finish” to finish the Installation. Note: About to install the software application to your PDA, please refer to your user manual of your PDA manufacturer.
C.2 Install PC Software Application Install the pc software application from CD. When screen shows the installation window as follows. Click “Next>” to continue. Or click”
Click “ I accept the terms of the license agreement” then click “Next>” to continue. Enter User Name and Company Name, then click “Next>” Or click”
Click “Next>” to continue. Or click”
Then start installation. And finish installation will ask you to restart your computer as follow window. Please click “Yes, I want to restart my computer now” and click “Finish” to finish the Installation. And your desktop will appear the BlueGPS icon. You can double click the BlueGPS icon to execute the BlueGPS software application.
D PDA Software Application User Manual D.1 Connection Page User has to set up a connection with BlueGPS device by this dialog. D.1.1 Device Name: When connection is successful, it will show the Device’s ID Name automatically. D.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 BlueGPS ID field, then click “Change” button to upload the Device’s ID Name to BlueGPS. D.1.
BlueGPS device, the window shown in Figure 1 will appear. The window in figure 2 will appear, and it means a successful connection. If the window is shown as Figure 3, it means the connection is failed, please try it again. Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 1 D.1.5 Auto Scan: Automatically scan the BlueGPS COM port in order to connect to BlueGPS device. D.1.6 Disconnect: Disconnect to the BlueGPS device.
D.2 Navigation Page You can set GPS-relative parameters by this dialog. D.2.1 NMEA Mode / SiRF Mode: Display (or change) the mode of device. Setup the parameters of in NMEA Mode or SiRF Mode. D.2.2 Degraded Mode: Enable or disable degraded mode. D.2.3 Elevation mask: Elevation mask setting. D.2.4 DOP Mask: DOP mask type and DOP mask value setting. D.2.5 SBAS Mode: Enable or disable SBAS function. D.2.6 Default: Reset values of this dialog into default value.
Set which events you want to log. You can choose to stop logging or overwrite the old data when memory is full. D.3.1 Enable Data Log: Enable (disable) the data log function in device. If without selecting this item, then no other item can be selected. (Excluding the “When Log Space Full” menu) D.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. D.3.
Stop: BlueGPS will stop logging data when memory is full. D.3.7 OK: Upload the setting to the BlueGPS. D.4 Download data By this dialog, you can download the GPS datalog from BlueGPS 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.
D.4.4 Remaining Space: The percentage of remaining space. D.4.5 Process Data After Download: Switch to “Processing” dialog automatically after download is finished D.4.6 Start: Start downloading. D.4.7 Stop: Stop downloading. D.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”.
Distance: output the data logged by distance event Speeding data: output the data logged by exceeding the speed limit Overtime data: output the data exclude the working time D.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 account. D.
D.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 will be converted. D.7.1 Auto Replay: Play the NMEA data circulating. D.7.
software. D.7.7 Stop: Stop to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software. D.7.8 Close: Close this dialog. D.8 Configuration: Use this page to set the system configuration values. D.8.1 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 “Connect to Map” dialog. D.8.2 Set: Display the “Change Password” dialog. D.8.
D.9 Change Password: D.9.1 Enable Password Protection: Enable (or disable) password protection D.9.2 New Password: Input your new password. D.9.3 Confirm Password: Input your new password again to prevent from typing error. D.9.4 OK: Change to the new password. D.9.5 Cancel: Give up the change. D.10 About: This page shows the software version and the copyright claim.
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E PC Software Application User Manual E.1 Application User Interface Click the icon as right in your desktop to run the software after install the BlueGPS software. Then you can see the BlueGPS window as Figure 1. 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.
E.2 Connection Page User has to set up a connection with BlueGPS device by this dialog. E.2.1 Device Name: When connection is successful, will show the Device’s ID Name automatically. E.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 BlueGPS ID field, then click “Change” button to upload the Device’s ID Name to BlueGPS. E.2.3 COM Port: Set up the BlueGPS COM Port. E.2.
E.2.5 Auto Scan: Automatically scans the BlueGPS COM Port and baud rate in order to connect BlueGPS device. E.2.6 Disconnect: Disconnect to the BlueGPS device. Note: When perform the Auto Scan, the user has to wait for a while because it will get necessary system information from BlueGPS. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 E.3 Navigation Page You can set GPS-relative parameters by this dialog.
E.3.1 NMEA Mode / SiRF Mode: Display (or change) the mode of device. Setup the parameters of NMEA Mode or SiRF Mode. E.3.2 Degraded Mode: Enable or disable degraded mode. E.3.3 Elevation mask: To set the parameter of the Elevation mask. E.3.4 DOP Mask: DOP mask type and DOP mask value setting. E.3.5 SBAS Mode: Enable or disable SBAS function. E.3.6 Default: Reset values of this dialog into default value. It has not changed the setting of device yet.
E.4 Data Logger Parameters In this dialog, you can enable (disable) data log function of BlueGPS device. Set which events do you want to log. You can choose to stop logging or overwrite the old data when flash is full. E.4.1 Enable Data Log: Enable (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) E.4.2 Constant Distance: Enable (disable) the logging function according to the value in right field.
E.4.5 Include Altitude Info: Select if you want to log the Altitude information within the data. E.4.6 When Flash Full Overwrite: BlueGPS will overwrite the older data when memory is full. (Unit: sector) Stop: BlueGPS will stop logging data when memory is full. E.4.7 OK: Upload the setting to the BlueGPS. E.5 Download data By this dialog, you can download the GPS datalog from BlueGPS device. The saved file format is a more readable but proprietary file format.
Query datalog info: only get how many data is stored in BlueGPS device and the percentage of remaining space E.5.1 File Name: Select the folder and the file name to save the data. E.5.2 Progress Bar Show the downloading progress In the right side of progress bar, you can see the downloaded percentage. E.5.3 Recorded Number: The total number of datalog records in device. E.5.4 Remaining Space: Shows the percentage of remaining space. E.5.
E.6 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 NMEA file by a virtual com port to third-party navigation software, such as PaPaGo. E.6.1 File Name: Choose the source file you want to process. The source file must be the downloaded file in download dialog. E.6.2 Data Type: Set up the term of data to filter.
Note: Exceed Working Time only provide regular setting. It can not take holiday into account. E.7 Convert To NMEA You can convert the downloaded data into NMEA file. E.7.1 File Name: Select the folder and the file name to save the data. RMC, GGA, GLL, and VTG: Select which sentence will be converted. E.7.2 Start: Start converting. E.7.3 Stop: Stop converting. E.7.4 Close: Close this dialog.
E.8 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 will be converted. E.8.1 Auto Replay: Play the NMEA data circulating. E.8.
software. E.8.6 Pause: Pause to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software. E.8.7 Stop: Stop to transmit NMEA data to virtual COM port to other navigation software. E.8.8 Close: Close this dialog. E.9 Configuration: Use this page to set the system configuration values. E.9.1 Map Application Path: Using this dialog to set the Navigation application execution file path.
E.9.2 Set: Display the “Change Password” dialog. E.9.3 Change Password: Change and upload the password.
E.10 Change Password: E.10.1 Enable Password Protection: Enable (or disable) password protection E.10.2 New Password: Input your new password. E.10.3 Confirm Password: Input your new password again for fear of typing error. E.10.4 OK: Change to the new password. E.10.5 Cancel: Give up the change.
E.11 About: This page shows the software version and the copyright claim. Headquarters 1071 Chung Cheng RD., Suite 9F-1 Tao Yuan City, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-3-256-9666 FAX: 886-3-358-0050 Branch Office – Sales Department 8F, 256, Yang Guang St., Nei Hu Chiu, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-2-7721-5000 FAX: 886-2-7721-5666 Http://www.royaltek.com Sales: sales@royaltek.com FAE: fae@royaltek.
