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You can view the NMEA 0183 data coming out of one of our USB devices using Tera Term, a free Windows terminal program, which can be downloaded from the link below… https://osdn.net/projects/ttssh2/releases/ Just select the latest EXE installer version and once downloaded, double click on the file to install TeraTerm. You only need the main program, not all of the extra plugins and language extensions, so untick everything else as shown below…. Once Tera Term is installed, you need to confirm what COM port Windows has allocated to your device’s USB interface. It was COM3 on our PC, but it might be a different number onRead More →

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You can test the USB to NMEA cable by doing a “Loopback” test as follows… You will need a Windows PC to and a copy of TeraTerm which is free to download from the link below… https://osdn.net/projects/ttssh2/releases/ Just select the latest EXE installer version and once downloaded, double click on the file to install TeraTerm. You only need the main program, not all of the extra plugins and language extensions, so untick everything else as shown below…. Once Tera Term is installed, we need to confirm what COM port Windows has allocated to your USB to NMEA Cable. It was COM3 on my PC, butRead More →

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In most cases, if your computer is connected to the internet, when you plug the USB to NMEA adaptor in to a spare USB socket, the driver should be automatically installed on Windows/MAC OSX/LINUX. Sometimes with Windows PCs, it is necessary to manually install the USB drivers which can be downloaded from here…. https://digitalyachtamerica.com/download/usb-nmea-adaptor-drivers-v2-12-28-for-windows-exe/ This will download a zip file that when you double click will show a single exe file… Extract this EXE file and then right click on it and select “Run as administrator”… Now plug in the USB cable and check in Device Manager that the USB to NMEA adaptor has beenRead More →