Having trouble getting my logging setup to work at all

[talontsi01]

About six months ago, I bought a logger cable to use with my labtop. I never got around to setting it up until now. I just bought a Palm IIIxe using OS 3.5. So...I hooked up the palm to the logger cable and the logger cable to the car. I hooked up the green wire to the top left pin, the black to the bottom right and the clear wire two pins up from the black. I installed both mmcd and palmstein. Nothing is working. I believe I have everything hooked up correctly.

Here is my setup:

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The only thing wrong that I could think of is the logging cable. Can I use a logging cable that is meant for pc's for a palm?

 

[BOBS90TURBO]

Did you have any trouble hotsyncing the palm to you pc? I would just uninstall the palmstein and use the mmcd, do you have the mmcd emblem on the screen of your palm, if so after you hook up the 3 wires start the car and click the mmcd icon and click new and then click on whatever icon you want to log. But I have heard of bad cables, open it up and check the connections.

 

[talontsi01]

No trouble hotsyncing.

Opened up the logging cable, and it looks fine.

Am I correctly hooking up the logging cable to the car?

 

[BOBS90TURBO]

Hey, I'll bet you have the wires mixed up somehow, just make sure you are getting a good solid connection on the pins and try switching them around untill it works.

http://mmcdlogger.sourceforge.net/

 

[talontsi01]

Hey, I'll bet you have the wires mixed up somehow, just make sure you are getting a good solid connection on the pins and try switching them around untill it works.

http://mmcdlogger.sourceforge.net/

What setup do you have? What pins on your car do you plug into?

 

[talontsi01]

Also, I think it might be a problem in me having a labtop logger cable opposed to a plam logger cable. Is there a difference? This is really starting to perturb me.

 

[Quasimondo]

Stupid question: are you going from the logger cable to the hotsync cradle? From what I understand, it won't work if you're using a hotsync cradle.

 

[92awddsm]

Here is mine. Wire colors are a little different but same idea. And you cannot use the cradle for logging, you need a hotsync cable. Sorry for the crappy pic.

 

[BOBS90TURBO]

I use the Palm M130, I did not think about it not working from the cradle, I was told it would work, I bought a cable that takes the place of the cradle, it plugs into the serial port on the bottom, mine says M505 and it works on my M130, when I bough mine I just made sure it matched up on the bottom, I got mine from best buy for like 10 bucks.

 

[talontsi01]

Ok. I have it all hooked up right. I just need a hotsync cable instead of the cradle.

My question is though, there is no serial port directly on the palm...so does it connect to the palm the same way the cradle does?


I have a palm IIIxe. Ill probaly go to best buy tomorrow.

 

[BOBS90TURBO]

Yes, it plugs in the bottom of the palm.where the cradle and palm connect at.

 

[talontsi01]

Yes, it plugs in the bottom of the palm.where the cradle and palm connect at.

Alright. Cool.

I just wanted to make sure before I bought one.

I just ordered one off of ebay.