Win7 updates and opencop

[DeborahLee]

I am having trouble and was wondering if anyone else has the same problem or has a fix. Open worked great last year this season I started it up and it wouldn't connect with the GPS.After trying several things I did a restore back to last year and everything worked fine then I got on the web and later it wouldn't talk to the GPS again. This time I looked and saw that I had received several win7 updates. I did a restore again and everything worked again. Also having trouble preventing updates but that's another problem.

[hoolie]

The Windows updates change the GPS driver so that it has "sensor" status. This is incompatible with OpenCPN and you have to change the driver back to a Virtual COM Port driver. Look on your GPS maker's site or trawl Google for one that will work with your device.

BTW keep a copy so the next time MS wipes out your driver you can restore it!

[rgleason]

Just a minute, there are other ways and it helps to know about them.
https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...rted:gps_setup