I paid some damn good money for my chartplotter and it would be nice to use it as intended. It has been non-user friendly from the start.
#Garmin homeport join some not all tracks software#
To make it worse, this has happened before and the next time I will try to use the software - the data will have come back!!!!! Why The Face? :eek:Īnd what is with those anchor symbols when I convert a track to a route? Then I go to do something with it 10 minutes later and about 50 fish drops are GONE. For example, I removed several duplicate fish drops (select on the left, right click, delete), simple enough. I have been trying to build my database of fish drops and I get duplicates that have to be weeded out and the past couple of times I have used it, some of my data just disappears. Would rather have spent my $30 on a bottle of bourbon. I have been using computers since that age of COBOL and punch cards and this has got to be one of the most irritating programs I have ever used. I agree that homeport is crappy and add unstable to that. What's the price of Microsoft Word these days? You can't buy a decent dinner for $30.00. Doesn't Google use a slider (I don't remember)? I leave my plotters (thery are flush mounted) on the boat.Īgain, it works for me. I have more routes than my plotter will hold at one time so I upload the ones I'll be using on a particular day or trip. I can either use the same SD card for routes and waypoints or a different card.
#Garmin homeport join some not all tracks Pc#
I copied my maps to an SD card so I could use it in my PC with HomePort. It works fine for me, it may be related to your not having the maps on the SD card. When you put the SD card into your computer, HomePort will read and display the maps. You have to export the maps from your plotter to an SD card (you can do this with a 42XX or 52XX, I don't know about your plotter, read the manual). Unfortunately, Homeport seems to be stuck 7 years in the past in terms of user interface and operation, and documentation for the product seems to be non-existent. Most software today is designed with a certain level of user-friendliness.
Why do I have to use the slider? Isn't it pretty standard for mapping apps (such as google) to zoom upon double click? What a PITA! Now I have to wait until I'm at the boat to do this exercise since there's no way for me to power up the plotter without hooking it up to my boat.Ĥ. Now I find out that I have to transfer my waypoints from my plotter to an SD card, THEN I can access them in Homeport. I assumed I could just pop the SD card from my plotter into my computer, access my waypoints, add new ones, etc., and then re-open on the plotter next time I'm on my boat. I bring the plotter home whenever I leave the boat.
Why does it have to be so difficult to see my routes & waypoints in Homeport? My boat is slipped at a marina. There's an option to "view in Google Earth" - how is this supposed to work? That option is perpetually greyed out for me (I have both Homeport and Google Earth installed)ģ. Can I do this in Homeport? If so, how? All I see are cartoony maps without the satellite level detail I paid for when I bought the G2 map.Ģ. On my plotter (545s) I am able to see maps with satellite overlay, and increase/decrease transparency of the overlay. Some questions for those of us who have managed to figure out the product:ġ. If the other posts are any evidence, others are too. I am finding this software to be pretty user unfriendly.
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