topic Help! no COM ports in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/help-no-com-ports/m-p/44013#M505 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a bluetooth GPS mouse (type HOLUX gpslim236). The GPS mouse is installed with correct drivers. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to make the GPS position visible on a map. The GPS mouse is connected to a virtual COM port (COM port 12). For visualizing the GPS position I used the 'GPS toolbar' in ArcMap. By choosing 'GPS Connection Setup' I attempt to select the correct COM port.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However, the problem is there is no COM port to select in the box beside 'Communication Port'. It's empty! </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I choose the option 'Detect GPS Port' I get a failure message: </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">Unable to detect GPS device on COM ports supported by the hardware.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anybody know what's going wrong?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Nico</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:49:46 GMT NicoBlokland 2013-03-27T13:49:46Z Help! no COM ports https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/help-no-com-ports/m-p/44013#M505 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a bluetooth GPS mouse (type HOLUX gpslim236). The GPS mouse is installed with correct drivers. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to make the GPS position visible on a map. The GPS mouse is connected to a virtual COM port (COM port 12). For visualizing the GPS position I used the 'GPS toolbar' in ArcMap. By choosing 'GPS Connection Setup' I attempt to select the correct COM port.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However, the problem is there is no COM port to select in the box beside 'Communication Port'. It's empty! </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I choose the option 'Detect GPS Port' I get a failure message: </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">Unable to detect GPS device on COM ports supported by the hardware.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anybody know what's going wrong?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Nico</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:49:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/help-no-com-ports/m-p/44013#M505 NicoBlokland 2013-03-27T13:49:46Z