Download GPX files > 1 MB

Hello,

I got my GPSMap 66 a few days ago. Now I am looking for a solution to download big GPX files via CIQ. I am talking about GPX files with geocaching data. Should this be in general possible? Or is there some file size limitation? As I read in the documentation there is a special makeWebRequest for GPX files which downloads the file directly. Or is there any way to download the data via Wifi?

0 Travis.ConnectIQ over 7 years ago

I think you will run into issues with downloading files of that size over a BLE link. Not only would it be incredibly slow if it worked, my reading of the code says that it would fail. I'm not certain that it will fail (I have not tested), but there is a limit of 16K that I'm seeing.

Last week, at the ConnectIQ Developers Summit, we announced that we are opening up access to WiFi for syncing, but that feature requires ConnectIQ SDK 3.1.0 support which is not currently available to the gpsmap66.

0 paaast over 7 years ago in reply to Travis.ConnectIQ

Thanks for the quick answer. That's sounds very interesting, I am very new to the whole CIQ, does this mean, there will be a firmware update for the Gpsmap 66 which includes 3.1 later this year? So I can start developing a prototype and just wait for the release of the firmware? Or will this version of CIQ only be available on newer devices?

0 Travis.ConnectIQ over 7 years ago in reply to paaast

I do not know for certain that the gpsmap66 will get updated to 3.1.0 or not.