Using Your Garmin 60Cx In Linux

Weither its geocaching or just plain navigating through the woods I take my gps along. And now with a little tweak I can use my garmin gps 60Cx in linux....here's how.

Using a console window enter the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andreas-diesner/garminplugin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install garminplugin
sudo apt-get install gpsbabel

In firefox navigate to and install the User Agent Switcher add on

create a file called .garminplugin.xml in your home folder, and in it paste the following

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
	<GarminPlugin logfile="" level="ERROR">
	<Devices>
	<Device>
	<Name>GPSmap 60CSx</Name>
	<StoragePath>/tmp</StoragePath>
	<StorageCommand>gpsbabel -i gpx -f %1 -o garmin,snlen=14 -F usb:</StorageCommand>
	<FitnessDataPath></FitnessDataPath>
	</Device>
	</Devices>
	<Settings>
	<ForerunnerTools enabled="false" />
	</Settings>
	</GarminPlugin>

You can now use firefox and if a site such as geocaching.com allows you to send a gpx file directly to your gps you can do so in linux.

If you have a gpx file made or already downloaded you can use the following script to send gpx files to your garmin gps 60Cx via command line.

Copy the text below in a file, make it executable and in a console window run FILENAME GPXFILENAME.GPX

#! /bin/sh

[ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo "need to pass filename.gpx as variable on start up" ; exit 1; }

if [ -f $1 ]
then
	gpsbabel -i gpx -f $1 -o garmin,snlen=14 -F usb:
else
	echo $1 " Does not exist....please check path and name"
fi

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Using Your Garmin 60Cx In Linux