Comments on: Garmin Forerunner 305/405 musings

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:26:55 +0000

Hello,

I just found that from Ubuntu 11.10 it has a package “garmin-ant-downloader”. I think this is being made from the gant package. I have installed it yesterday and I need to spend some time today to connect it to the ANT Stick.
If anybody had success to connect it already please let me know.
Regards

alexander

By: john

john — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:10:00 +0000

Hy all! I recently discovered Garmin Forerunner models and I felt in love! I bought an 410 and an 610 model, I also build a site with forerunner reviews ( http://www.forerunnerreview.net ) but anyhow I have a problem when I try to load my activity directly from my device to Garmin connect. I get this message : Error
Sorry, but it appears that an error occurred.
What To Do Now?
◦Refresh this page
◦Hit the back button on your browser and try the action again
◦Return to this page in a few minutes
◦Contact Customer Support

I contacted customer support but i did not receive an answer.
If you could please help me!
cheers!

By: Igor Gatis

Igor Gatis — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:50:07 +0000

I’m hitting the following error message:

tcgetattr(fd, &tp): Inappropriate ioctl for device

Anyone know how to fix that?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:26:26 +0000

I have a 405CX is it works fine, so you shouldn’t have any trouble there. Not sure if mine is USB1 or 2 though.

From the mention of JAVA_HOME, it sounds like you’re trying to run the program called ‘gant’ installed from the ubuntu software center/repository. This is a different program. You need download, compile and run the program mentioned in step 2 of Gareth’s instructions mentioned above on 14th December 2010.

By: cpie

cpie — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:25:47 +0000

Issue this command:

$ lsusb
and you will get something like this:

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c503 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse+Keyboard Receiver
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0fcf:1004 Dynastream Innovations, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c505 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse+Keyboard Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Find the line which has the Dynastream device and look at the characters in the column following ID

Then, issue the following command replacing 0fcf and 1004 with your characters following your ID

$ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0fcf product=0×1004
Then you can issue the command bellow to see that your device is now attached.
$ dmesg | grep ‘ttyUSB’
[199182.249368] usb 3-1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0

By: sandglass

sandglass — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:16:04 +0000

recently i got a 405cx. this is an 405 with pulse sensor bundled.
is there anything different with the cx than with the 405 or 410 withouht “cx” ?
I can not get this device working.
usbserial says:
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0fcf:1008 Dynastream Innovations, Inc.
so the system recognizes the ant+ usb2 stick correctly.
the original gat says, after setting the “JAVA_HOME” no class identifyer
and the branch listet above hangs after calling it with the parameters -f and -a, each named 405cx.
Am i doing anything wrong?
besides uname says:
Linux station_name 2.6.31-23-generic #75-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 18:08:39 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
so this is (not so clearly to be seen) a ubuntu 9.10 wich works very well and i do so hesitate to upgrade it in anyway
if someone knows, plz answer.
grz

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:45:47 +0000

Hi,

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (kernel 2.6.35-27) from 10.04 gant just hangs. I have tried clearing the usbserial as suggested above with no luck.

Anyone else experiencing problems after the upgrade?

By: Beno

Beno — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:38:14 +0000

thanks for the info, quite helpful.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:51:33 +0000

I’ve got a Forerunner 410
Got it working with the following ( I have basically cobbled together the below from various individual websites I have located that piece together the issues I have been experiencing)

1. Make ubuntu “see the usb stick” and create the /dev/ttyUSB0

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0fcf product=0×1008

This created the /dev/ttyUSB0

To make the change permanent, you can do

echo “options usbserial vendor=0x0fcf product=0×1008″ >
/etc/modprobe.d/ant-usb2.conf
(do it as root, sudo -s makes you root)

2.I was then able to use (this paired the computer/ant+ stick with the garmin watch)

Open a Terminal for the installation [2]

cd $HOME
wget http://cgit.get-open.com/cgit.cgi/gant/snapshot/gant-master.tar.bz2
tar -xjf gant-master.tar.bz2
cd gant-master
make clean

make

3. First make sure the watch was set to pairing set to yes and enabled set to yes
set your wristwatch in Pairing mode as shown below

Menu > Settings > ANT+Sport > Computer > Pairing > set to On

The wristwatch will ask you whether you want to pair it or not. Also check that,

Menu > Settings > ANT+Sport > Computer > Force send > set to Yes
Menu > Settings > ANT+Sport > Computer > Enabled > set to Yes

4. Pair the ant stick with the watch

Then you have to make you are using the correct version of gant (i.e the one you have downloaded and compiled – make sure you put the ./ infront of the command else you may pickup any other version in your path)

(where name_of_device is a name you give it.. i.e 410 etc the file “auth410″ is the shared key created by the command)

This seemed to be wanted to be done as a “non-root” user…

./gant -f name_of_device -a auth410

If you get the error gant: JAVA_HOME not set and cannot find javac to deduce location, please set JAVA_HOME it’s because you are picking the gant in your path not the one you have just downloaded.

5. I could then use gant to download the contents of the watch

./gant -nza auth410 > output

This downloaded the .TCX files into my $HOME

here is one of the websites i used also has a cool way of setting up short cuts etc

http://www.littleowl.net/2009/12/09/forerunner-405-on-ubuntu/

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:35:45 +0000

Just as FYI.

As of July this year the Ant stick changed, it is now a usb2 device (was USB1), they removed the USB to serial from it.

I bought new stick to use with my GoldenCheetah software with my bike for realtime monitoring, but it’s a struggle to get it to work. Some guys wrote some python script to simulate serial device, but is still not working.

It doesn’t show up anymore as a device under Linux and OSX. Might be similar to some problems reported here.