Short description: GarminPlugin is a browser plugin to support Garmin Devices on Linux. Currently (02.12.2010) there is no official browser plugin support for Linux from Garmin.
This plugin has nothing to do with the company Garmin (http://www.garmin.com)
Long description: This browser plugin has the same methods and properties as the official Garmin Communicator Plugin (http://www8.garmin.com/products/communicator/). It can be used to transfer GPX files (Geocache Descriptions) to your garmin device using the official Garmin Javascript API. Its functionality depends on the device you use.
Motivation: Garmin introduced paperless geocaching a while ago on their devices. This works great using Windows and geocaching.com because a windows plugin is available that gives you the possibility to transfer geocaches with one click to the device. Having to boot Windows every time I wanted to go geocaching felt like a waste of time. I had many different ideas on how to best transfer geocaches to my garmin device, but they were all based on parsing the geocaching.com website because they do not offer an official API to access the geocaches. The idea of having to update my application every time they change their layout did stop me from going that approach. Writing a browser plugin that simulates the garmin plugin seemed to be the best idea. Using a javascript debugger soon revealed that the effort of writing such a plugin wasn't that huge - so I got started...
Features:
GarminPlugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
GarminPlugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
This software was written by Andreas Diesner [ andreas.diesner [AT] gmx [DOT] de ] The project is hosted on http://www.andreas-diesner.de/garminplugin/ The source code is hosted on GitHub http://github.com/adiesner/GarminPlugin
Dependencies to other projects: garmintools - http://code.google.com/p/garmintools/ libusb - http://www.libusb.org/ ticpp - http://code.google.com/p/ticpp/ zlib - http://www.zlib.net gcrypt - http://www.gnupg.org/
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Howto compile GarminPlugin:
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core zlib1g-dev libusb-dev libgcrypt11-dev git clone http://github.com/adiesner/GarminPlugin.git svn export http://garmintools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ garmintools svn export http://ticpp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ticpp wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/premake/Premake/4.2.1/premake-4.2.1-linux.tar.gz
tar xvzf premake-4.2.1-linux.tar.gz cd ticpp ../premake4 --cc=gcc --os=linux --platform=x64 gmake
sed --in-place 's/$(CFLAGS)/$(CFLAGS) -fPIC/g' TiCPP.make make config=release64 cd ..
cd garmintools ./configure CXXFLAGS="-fPIC -g -O2" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC" make cd ..
cd GarminPlugin/src /configure --with-garmintools-incdir=../../garmintools/src --with-garmintools-libdir=../../garmintools/src/.libs/ make cd ../..
sudo cp GarminPlugin/src/npGarminPlugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins