http://www.farmworks.com/forum/list.php?10Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:48:00 -0400 Phorum 5.2.7 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71074#msg-71074 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71074#msg-71074
I spoke with Robert Fraune of Mueller at a recent farm show (the Amatron is a Mueller box), and he confirmed that there are 2 modes for the Amatron 3. One will use the Amatron+ protocol, and the other sets it in ISO mode, so you could also export files from Mapping, if you choose the Muller option, for direct use with the display. So 2 confirmed options that will work.

Kind regards,

Phil]]> philt Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAMon, 17 Jun 2013 06:53:52 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71063#msg-71063 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71063#msg-71063Thanks a lot!

Thomas]]> Thomas Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAWed, 12 Jun 2013 08:49:05 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71061#msg-71061 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71061#msg-71061You can connect the Recon to your computer using Active Sync or Windows Mobile Device Center and browse to the unit through your computer to copy the files/items before completing a factory reset. It is possible that the screen is bad and a factory reset or recalibration will not correct.

Thank You]]> Nicole Yoquelet Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAWed, 12 Jun 2013 08:14:27 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71059#msg-71059 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71059#msg-71059 Greenleafagronomy Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAWed, 12 Jun 2013 05:27:26 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71057#msg-71057 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71057#msg-71057
Perform a Clean Boot
WARNING: All application software installed by the factory and the customer, plus licenses, settings and user data will be cleared if you perform this function!
Hold down the Power key to display a countdown.
Continue to hold down the Power key until it counts down to zero and beeps twice.
Then immediately hold down the Start and OK keys simultaneously.
After a few seconds, a screen will come up warning that if you continue, this operation will clear the persistent store including all user data, applications and settings.
Follow the instructions on the screen ONLY if you want to completely clear your unit.

Thank You]]> Nicole Yoquelet Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 11 Jun 2013 17:03:30 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71050#msg-71050 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71050,71050#msg-71050 Greenleafagronomy Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAMon, 10 Jun 2013 12:22:12 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71039#msg-71039 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71039#msg-71039
The answer is "we think so". We do not have this particular unit for testing. We do offer the Device setup for the Amazon Amatron+. As long as they share the same protocols it will work. Sorry I could not be of better help.]]> KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAFri, 07 Jun 2013 12:49:22 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71010,71026#msg-71026 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71010,71026#msg-71026 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 06 Jun 2013 12:19:39 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71023#msg-71023 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71023,71023#msg-71023
is it possible to use Farm Works Mobile with an Amatron 3 terminal for VRA?

Thanks!
Thomas]]> Thomas Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 06 Jun 2013 10:03:42 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71016#msg-71016 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71016#msg-71016I'm at a loss as to why the program would function any differently than before. You are correct in your assessment that any .ini files you have include settings that the program uses. If one of these files was also corrupted, it might cause problems. My suggestion is that you copy the guidemate.ini file to your desktop computer and then delete it from the handheld. The program will recreate a new file when you start it again. The only drawback is that you'll lose any settings you've entered. It's worth a try to see if this stops the problems you're seeing when going between Guide Mate and Site Mate.

With regards to the fgp file, there's probably not a lot to be done. If you want to e-mail it to me, I'll be glad to take a look. But I won't make any promises.

I'm not sure I understand your request for the switchbox. If you're looking to use an existing VRA Protocal to log data, the Raven protocal is a published format. If you get the 440 manual (link below), page 44 includes details.

[ravenhelp.com]]]> Scott Nusbaum Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 04 Jun 2013 17:27:53 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71014#msg-71014 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71014#msg-71014
The GM/SM on the Nomad is a second unit that I use only for weed/rock/crop condition mapping.

Nice rain the last few days, eh? Finally! I've got WW that's 10" tall and heading. Ufduh.

thanks,
C -]]> Chuck Merja Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 04 Jun 2013 13:03:56 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71013#msg-71013 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71013#msg-71013
Is there something in the "ini" that would rectify this hanging situation? I seem to have had to delete or rename GM...ini in years past, but memory is foggy.

Re possibly corrupt old FGP. Any chance I can "uncorrupt" it?

And this leads me to a return to the whole flagging issue. It seems to me that with glyphosate and other resistances, even the corn and bean folks might be interested in using GPS to know what species of weeds were where and the old flagging function that GM had is really a good way to accomplish this. I own a couple Trimble FM750's and the flagging there is really quite juvenile...really "weed" "tree" "rock" and only single instance. Not too helpful.

So over the winter I built and tested a little microcontroller switchbox that takes up to 8 switches and converts that 8 bit word into a decimal number 0-256 and spits that decimal number out (in a serial string). I can call it "rate" and then dump that into VRA mapping of your "mobile" and get a real time 256 attribute map. This will be cool to see in real time. Might you have a programmer that could help me do the handshake between my appliance and your "mobile"? That would be really helpful. I could then abandon this old GM/SM.

Thanks.

C]]> Chuck Merja Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 04 Jun 2013 12:57:14 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71012#msg-71012 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,71012#msg-71012You're stretching my memory but I do recall that there could be issues when you start with Guide Mate. However, if I'm understanding correctly, you still aren't getting the data saved when you start with Site Mate, right?

It sounds like you are opening an existing .fgp file and are adding to it. Have you tried to start a new file? I'm wondering if maybe the .fgp file has corruption and if that is stopping the saving of data. If that were the case, a new .fgp file should work fine.

With regards to syncing multiple handhelds with a Windows 7 desktop, I do this all the time. Sometimes I have to do a reset on a handheld to get Windows to recognize it and a few times I've had to reboot my computer with the handheld hooked up. But I've always been able to make it work. I'm using Windows Mobile Device Center Version 6.1.6965 (probably not the latest).]]> Scott Nusbaum Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 04 Jun 2013 12:19:08 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71010,71010#msg-71010 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,71010,71010#msg-71010 Bob Wheeler Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 04 Jun 2013 10:20:23 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70995#msg-70995 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70995#msg-70995Have you tried looking at the Unfinished/ Workorders folder or option in the job screen to see if maybe these jobs are still open on the Nomad?
Somtimes the jobs do not get closed properly when you are using SM and GM at the same time for some reason. When you close the GM job it seems like it leaves the SM job hanging. Ususally you can find it in the Unfinished/ Workorders folder, reopen this job and then finish the SM job to close it and get it into the TMSM data folder for syncing.

Hopefully helpful,]]> Mitch Konen Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 30 May 2013 10:39:26 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70987#msg-70987 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70987#msg-70987FGP file appears to be older than the shp, shx, db files, so it looks like it is trying to export, but it just doesn't take enough time to do that, so when I open fgp in laptop sitemate it appears that I've lost the last 3 days of work. And same for when I open shape file in SSToolbox - no 3 days work.

I think this occurs because there is something in the "hook" between guidemate and sitemate that is not working. I say this because when I try to start guidemate directly, the device hangs at the Sitemate splash screen. So I've taken to starting sitemate first then going to the guidemate (blue star) icon to get to guidemate. It appears to be OK and I've been able to open scouting files with flags and set the flags etc, it just doesn't appear to save that work :o((

As (winnie the) Pooh would say... "oh bother!"

So I have a TDS Nomad and thought I'd try to (fresh) install sitemate/guidemate on it but can't get it to active sync on laptop that I sync Nomad 900 with. ANy ideas about syncing multiple handhelds to the same laptop?? (Windoze 7). BTW - Microsoft online help thinks I want to add a ringtone to my nomad, seriously - must be a "bing" thing.

C]]> Chuck Merja Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAWed, 29 May 2013 10:53:57 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70980#msg-70980 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70980#msg-70980The .fgp files are actually the raw data files that Site Mate creates. The Shape Files (.shp, .dbf and .shx) get created from this data. Hopefully this is just a situation where the .shp files are missing some data.

Before you do anything, make sure that you backup all your data (should be in the TMSMData folder on the Nomad).

You're stretching my memory on the old version, but somewhere there should be an option to open a log file. This option should let you open the .fgp file. If opening this file brings back all of your data, you should be able to go to the File menu and re-export as shape files to fix the problem.

Alternately, if you have the Farm Works desktop software, you should be able to import the .fgp files to get the complete dataset.]]> Scott Nusbaum Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 28 May 2013 13:02:22 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70977#msg-70977 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70977,70977#msg-70977thanks, Chuck]]> Chuck Merja Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRATue, 28 May 2013 10:14:09 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70928,70930#msg-70930 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70928,70930#msg-70930 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAWed, 22 May 2013 16:05:47 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70928,70928#msg-70928 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70928,70928#msg-70928Thanks.
Bernie Zellmer
McPherson Crop Managment]]> Bernie Paulson Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAWed, 22 May 2013 15:23:52 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70872#msg-70872 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70872#msg-70872 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAMon, 13 May 2013 07:50:50 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70869#msg-70869 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70869#msg-70869 Ken Berry Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRASat, 11 May 2013 15:52:39 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70863#msg-70863 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70863#msg-70863 Scott Nusbaum Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 16:05:38 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70843,70859#msg-70859 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70843,70859#msg-70859 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 12:47:17 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70843,70857#msg-70857 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70843,70857#msg-70857 askleinfelter Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 11:59:14 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70855#msg-70855 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70855#msg-70855 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 11:48:01 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70843,70854#msg-70854 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70843,70854#msg-70854 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 11:46:42 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70835,70853#msg-70853 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70835,70853#msg-70853 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 11:38:11 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70842,70852#msg-70852 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70842,70852#msg-70852 KathyCline Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 11:35:13 -0400 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70850#msg-70850 http://www.farmworks.com/forum/read.php?10,70850,70850#msg-70850 Ken Berry Field - GPS Mapping, Scouting, Soil Sampling & VRAThu, 09 May 2013 10:03:50 -0400