HomePort 2.1.0 is now available.

A new version of HomePort has been posted to the update server. Use Help->Check For Software Update... to download the new version.

- Both land maps and navigation charts are now supported.

- Improved the display of tide level and tide current properties.

- HomePort 2.1 overall user interface layout and controls have changed to more closely match BaseCamp 3.3.

- United States Federal Mineral release blocks are now shown on the fishing chart.

- Data shown on the fishing chart more closely matches that shown on the chart plotter.

- The create tools for routes, tracks, and waypoint have been separated and are always enabled.

- User Data Sync devices, such as the GpsMap 78s handheld marine device are now supported. This change includes support for Garmin Birdseye Satellite imagery and Garmin Custom Maps on compatible devices.

- The time toolbar has been replaced with a Tide Prediction Time dialog. Tide levels and tide currents are now always displayed on the chart and no longer depend on the state of the time toolbar.

- Tide level diagrams and current arrows can be disabled using the Display Options.

- Fuel consumption calculations outside of the values given by the Boat’s Speed / Fuel Flow table now use the rule that fuel consumed is proportional to the cube of the speed.

- Anonymous usage information is now collected, provided that the user agrees by opting in.

- The route tool no longer picks up names and symbols from the map data and no longer snaps to close lines.

- The route properties dialog now has an add waypoint button.

- Route leg information is now presented with better numerical precision.

- Corrected issue with gray boxes drawn at some zoom levels when certain buoy types were present.

- Improved the import and export of data in GPX file format. (Larger files can now be imported and exported at a higher speed, with a practical file size limit of 50 – 100 MB depending on the contents of the file.)

- The data backup file format has changed. Backups made with version 2.0.4 or earlier will not restore onto version 2.1.0 or later.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Is anybody else having trouble with this download? I was able to download it one time and my virus checker zapped the file. Now when I go to download, I get the download message 4 times and then I get a communication error message.

0 rwidman over 12 years ago

So I click on "Check for updates", get a message that an update is available, click on "download now" and it takes me back to the same screen.

Again and again.

0 Mustad_Marine_Yacht_Delivery over 12 years ago

Doesn't recognize my SD card map anymore

Does anybody have this problem? The new Homeport now fails to recognize my Garmin SD card G2 maps.

Is there a trick here I'm missing? I've been using Homeport since it first came out.

0 rwidman over 12 years ago

Is anybody else having trouble with this download? I was able to download it one time and my virus checker zapped the file. Now when I go to download, I get the download message 4 times and then I get a communication error message.

I think you and I are getting the same response except I was never able to download the update in the first place.

Hopefully, we can get this straightened out this coming week.

update - Yep Norton quarantined it as "suspicious".

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Finally downloaded

I was finally able to download the file. I had to follow the instructions on an earlier update problem. I had to find the previous corupt download file and delete it. I then hit the download window but I did nothing when the second download window came up. The file downloaded even though the second download window came up.

After awhile I hit later on the update and restarted the program. When I when to help, it stated the updates were ready for install. I hit install and they installed fine.

My update recognizes the G2 vision cards without a problem.

0 HIKERDAVE over 12 years ago

I was finally able to download the file. I had to follow the instructions on an earlier update problem. I had to find the previous corupt download file and delete it. I then hit the download window but I did nothing when the second download window came up. The file downloaded even though the second download window came up.

After awhile I hit later on the update and restarted the program. When I when to help, it stated the updates were ready for install. I hit install and they installed fine.

My update recognizes the G2 vision cards without a problem.

That's a problem with the 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 updater. Click on the download updates form once and only once to update. See the thread linked below:

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=10896

0 rwidman over 12 years ago

Does anybody have this problem? The new Homeport now fails to recognize my Garmin SD card G2 maps.

Is there a trick here I'm missing? I've been using Homeport since it first came out.

Mine didn't either. It knew there was a map on an SD card but it didn't display it.

At the top of the screen, click "View", then click "Chart Product", then select your map on the SD card.

0 rwidman over 12 years ago

That's a problem with the 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 updater. Click on the download updates form once and only once to update. See the thread linked below:

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=10896

Dave, as we used to say in the IT business, "That's less than optimal."

I think the update process needs some tweaking. It takes a lot of patience to sit and stare at a screen that doesn't seem to be doing anything. And that's twice, once while downlocading and again while applying the update.

The part about having to select the map product again is another "glitch" for the user. Lots of HomePort users are boaters with Garmin products but not necessarily computer "geeks".

0 rwidman over 12 years ago

Mine didn't either. It knew there was a map on an SD card but it didn't display it.

At the top of the screen, click "View", then click "Chart Product", then select your map on the SD card.

Apparently, you have to do this everytime you start HomePort. I can't get the setting to "stick".

This may happen only to those of us who have other map products installed. I have MapSource and the unlocked maps from the old CD.

edit: Confirmed. On my new PC with no BlueChard CD maps or mapSource installed, HomePort opens with the map that's on the SD card. On the older PC with Americas Blue Chart 4.01 and 5.0 installed it opens the Americas Blue Chart 4.01 chart from the hard drive. It appears to pick the first alphabetical product.

0 HIKERDAVE over 12 years ago

Apparently, you have to do this everytime you start HomePort. I can't get the setting to "stick".

This may happen only to those of us who have other map products installed. I have MapSource and the unlocked maps from the old CD.

edit: Confirmed. On my new PC with no BlueChard CD maps or mapSource installed, HomePort opens with the map that's on the SD card. On the older PC with Americas Blue Chart 4.01 and 5.0 installed it opens the Americas Blue Chart 4.01 chart from the hard drive. It appears to pick the first alphabetical product.

Looks like HomePort jumps the gun and selects the map product before all the SD cards have been loaded. We'll track the issue and fix in a later release (but I can't tell you when that will happen.)