Garmin 200 and iPad Mini

[Roscoe]

Hi,

As the iPad Mini doesn't have a USB port, is there another way of connecting a Garmin 200 to it? Is there a connector available that you can link the USB to that then links to the iPad?

Cheers
Ross

 

[Kevoffthetee]

Checkout garmins and apples website, there should be a way as a cable was available to convert the lightening port to usb

 

[Roscoe]

Thought that might be the case.

I can see an adaptor for a camera reader, however, would that work for downloading data from a Garmin?

 

[Roscoe]

A man after my own heart! I don't want to buy one and find out it doesn't work.

 

[John the Monkey]

The iPad would need to be able to act as a USB host, i.e. see the Garmin as attached storage.

I think that's possible in Android devices supporting the "USB on the Go" standard, but I don't know whether Apple devices (or the iPad specifically) are able to behave as USB hosts. If not, no amount of cable jiggery pokery is going to help, sadly.

There's a decent explanation in the "Overview" paragraph of this wiki article;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go

 

[ufkacbln]

I am afraid the only way to do this is a Bluetooth enabled Garmin, and then run Garmin Connect on the apple device.


Pair the two and when you save the track it will upload.

I do this with the 810 and IPhone

 

[John the Monkey]

Ok - apparently it can act as a usb host;

http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/18tw32/ipad_mini_reading_files_off_portable_hard_drive/

Obviously this is an external hard drive AND a jailbroken mini, so not directly applicable.

 

[Roscoe]

Thanks guys. Looks like it's not going to be doable then.