Lasivian
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IE. the new Spectra from White's would have been perfect if they had put a USB port on it and added PC communication.
Lasivian said:IE. the new Spectra from White's would have been perfect if they had put a USB port on it and added PC communication.
Dear Kevin Schuman
Thank you for your interest in White's products.
White's hopes to have our dongle and share software available for our
Spectra V3 next month, September 09.
With the White's dongle, the Spectra V3 user will be able to develop
programs on their PC, as well as share (upload and download) Spectra V3
programs over the world wide web.
The dongle will reliably interface any Spectra V3 through the wireless
connection.
The price has not yet been decided upon.
Manufacture cost are low.
Sincerely
Steve Howard
White's USA
Lasivian said:IE. the new Spectra from White's would have been perfect if they had put a USB port on it and added PC communication.
Lasivian said:White's sent me this information when I asked about the possibility of a usb detector:
Dear Kevin Schuman
Thank you for your interest in White's products.
White's hopes to have our dongle and share software available for our
Spectra V3 next month, September 09.
With the White's dongle, the Spectra V3 user will be able to develop
programs on their PC, as well as share (upload and download) Spectra V3
programs over the world wide web.
The dongle will reliably interface any Spectra V3 through the wireless
connection.
The price has not yet been decided upon.
Manufacture cost are low.
Sincerely
Steve Howard
White's USA
I'm leery of having to buy one more item to interface with a PC, something that should have come in the detector to begin with. I mean my Garmin GPS is waterproof and it has a USB port.
Also since it takes it's own software it's likely not going to be Linux compatible. (I'm one of those people tryig very VERY hard to stop running windows)
Functional said:Too bad they didn't think to make it more waterproof by having it use bluetooth and skip the USB port altogether.
F.
Carl-NC said:Lasivian said:IE. the new Spectra from White's would have been perfect if they had put a USB port on it and added PC communication.
As mentioned, we have this, it's just wireless. But the question I have is, what is meant by "a detector that is PC compatible"? That is, why do you want a detector to communicate with a PC? Transferring a user program is obvious, but anything beyond that?
- Carl
Lasivian said:Anything. We assume detector manufacturers know best, yet i'm certain if we had access to write our own code to control the device that the open source public could do FAR better. I for one would love to have my detector plugged into a hip-mounted notebook computer recording all the results of every target looking for any tiny variation between pulltabs and everything else I dig.
Real de Tayopa said:Good evening my friend Carl: It seems that you are enjoying your new position. Do a good job, which I know that you are quite capable of, and I just might buy a White to go with my Garretts.
Don Jose de La Mancha
I'm glad to hear that someone listens to their costumers these days.Carl-NC said:Lasivian said:Anything. We assume detector manufacturers know best, yet i'm certain if we had access to write our own code to control the device that the open source public could do FAR better. I for one would love to have my detector plugged into a hip-mounted notebook computer recording all the results of every target looking for any tiny variation between pulltabs and everything else I dig.
I cannot be very specific right now, but "we are listening."
- Carl
Lasivian said:Functional said:Too bad they didn't think to make it more waterproof by having it use bluetooth and skip the USB port altogether.
F.
Actually, bluetooth is slow and terribly unreliable for data transfer. Bluetooth 2.0 can do 2.1 Mbit/s best case, USB 2.0 by comparison can do 480 Mbit/s.
Also the garmin 60cs I was referring uses an epoxy sealed connector, and a rubber plug over the top of that, i'm sure the same would be possible on a detector that is not supposedly "waterproof".
Carl-NC said:Lasivian said:IE. the new Spectra from White's would have been perfect if they had put a USB port on it and added PC communication.
As mentioned, we have this, it's just wireless. But the question I have is, what is meant by "a detector that is PC compatible"? That is, why do you want a detector to communicate with a PC? Transferring a user program is obvious, but anything beyond that?
- Carl
Anything. We assume detector manufacturers know best, yet i'm certain if we had access to write our own code to control the device that the open source public could do FAR better. I for one would love to have my detector plugged into a hip-mounted notebook computer recording all the results of every target looking for any tiny variation between pulltabs and everything else I dig.
When compared to even a simple notebook computer detector has very little "computing power" to speak of, a simple netbook would definitely increase performance astronomically.
While i'm not certain I think with enough power behind a detector some infinitesimal differences could be found between pulltabs and gold rings.