
Investigation indicated Windows driver issue. It has been noted that in some rare occasions only one serial port is installed instead of two on a Windows machine.

If you have not changed this configuration, you should now be able to connect to the device using Swift Console at the corresponding COM port. It can be configured to use different protocols, but by default is set up for SBP. The GNSS Receiver port provides access to the device in a manner similar to the on-board serial and ethernet ports. It can be accessed using a terminal emulator program such as Putty or TeraTerm. The Linux Shell port provides access to the device’s on-board Linux environment. In the example above, COM3 is the Swift Navigation GNSS Receiver and COM4 is the Swift Navigation GNSS Receiver Linux Shell. Upon completion of the driver installation - make note of which COM port correlates to which device.

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The driver itself is packaged as a zip file. The current USB driver can be downloaded from the Swift Navigation Support Portal:įrom this page, use the link found in the USB Drivers for Piksi Multi section to download the driver. This article outlines the steps to install the Windows USB driver and verify device connectivity. No driver is currently required or provided for use on Mac OS or Linux operating systems. Swift Navigation provides a Windows driver for these devices. When using the Piksi Multi Evaluation Board, this USB device connection is accessible via the micro-USB port. Piksi® Multi provides a USB device connection, which presents 2 serial ports to the host system.

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