HB Interlink Issue

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02-09-2010, 09:13 AM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

HB Interlink Issue

Alright I have a little issue that has me stumped.
I have a 1197 on the console and a 797 on the trolling motor with SI transducer. Both units have their own Gps antenna installed. I have them connected with the interlink and both units show connected to the interlink on the accessory test menu.
I have tons of waypoints on the 797 and I want to store them to the interlink and them share them with the 1197. I have the share option selected on all the waypoints on the 797. Both units show up on the interlink status.
When I select the participate in network option on the 797, I always get the same message.
"Sync in progress" then "connection failed cancelled"
What am I missing here?
02-10-2010, 08:58 AM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

No ideas?

Guess it is time to get on with the HB service Dept.
02-10-2010, 10:00 AM
Fisherman_Wantabe

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Originally Posted by CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Alright I have a little issue that has me stumped.
I have a 1197 on the console and a 797 on the trolling motor with SI transducer. Both units have their own Gps antenna installed. I have them connected with the interlink and both units show connected to the interlink on the accessory test menu.
I have tons of waypoints on the 797 and I want to store them to the interlink and them share them with the 1197. I have the share option selected on all the waypoints on the 797. Both units show up on the interlink status.
When I select the participate in network option on the 797, I always get the same message.
"Sync in progress" then "connection failed cancelled"
What am I missing here?

How do have these connect to the interlink module?? I have a system very close to yours and have never had this to happen. :confused:
Their use to be a wiring diagram floating around here some where.
02-13-2010, 08:09 PM
luvin.fishin

Crappiehunter68: When you wade through this problem and get it hammered out, please post what you ended up having to do. My system will be very similar to yours and I'd like to know about any issues with the interlink in case this ever happens to me. Thanks
02-13-2010, 08:25 PM
jaxsprat

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Originally Posted by luvin.fishin

Crappiehunter68: When you wade through this problem and get it hammered out, please post what you ended up having to do. My system will be very similar to yours and I'd like to know about any issues with the interlink in case this ever happens to me. Thanks

Go To
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fishi...-question.html

Joby has a diagram dated 2/4/2010 using 2 units & interlink
02-15-2010, 01:26 PM
fished-out

This may not be an Interlink hook-up problem per se. How many waypoints are we talking? I believe you can have up to 3000 on a 997 (I assume the same on similar SI units). However, with two units, your effective limitation is 1500 at a time, because the Interlink needs enough room to sync two units. In other words, lets say I have 1800 waypoints that I want stored on both units. The Interlink doesn't know that they're the same waypoints and must load both files, compare them, and then write the new ones to each unit. Since the Interlink has the same 3000 waypoint capacity as the units themselves, it can't store the 3600 required to do the comparison. Until I figured this out, my units did all kinds of crazy things once I hit the limit. The Interlink should be made with a 6000 waypoint capacity, but it's not.
02-15-2010, 05:30 PM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

update

Ok I may have the solution thanks to Greg at Humminbird. I have a WeatherSense accessory inline to the interlink and it (wethersense) needs to be reset.
02-15-2010, 05:43 PM
Fisherman_Wantabe

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Originally Posted by CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Ok I may have the solution thanks to Greg at Humminbird. I have a WeatherSense accessory inline to the interlink and it (wethersense) needs to be reset.

What causes that I have the same setup, never had any problems. How do you reset it when needed?

Mounted both wheather sense and interlink under the console.
http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/z...t/100_0883.jpg
02-15-2010, 09:20 PM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Worked for me. I disconnected the cables from the weathersense and now I have interlink.
02-15-2010, 10:45 PM
Cane Pole

Sounds like that thing has some interrupt priority contingency problems...:eek:
02-16-2010, 07:31 AM
Fisherman_Wantabe

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Originally Posted by CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Worked for me. I disconnected the cables from the weathersense and now I have interlink.

So to use your interlink you have to disconnect the weather sense module??
Or was you able to recoonect it after remove power and then powering it back up?? :confused: My weather sense module has a battery backup in it :confused: ????
02-16-2010, 08:45 AM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Not Sure

I am not sure what was causing the issue originally but I suspect that since I had my Weathersense connected to the 797 only for a couple of years it need to reset to accept the interlink connection. The internal battery also ended up saying it was low so that could have been it also.
To reset the weathersense I just disconnected it and pulled the internal battery and replaced it.
02-16-2010, 01:18 PM
Humminbird_Greg

Crappiehunter68,
So everything is working right now?
I’ve heard that sometimes when you first connect an InterLink and a unit has a lot of waypoints on it that it will sometimes ‘choke’ if you have a WeatherSense in-line too. Removing the WeatherSense and reconnecting the units allows the waypoints to update and you can than reinstall the WeatherSense. I’ve not been told why this happens.
02-16-2010, 01:54 PM
Cane Pole

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Originally Posted by Humminbird_Greg

Crappiehunter68,
So everything is working right now?
I’ve heard that sometimes when you first connect an InterLink and a unit has a lot of waypoints on it that it will sometimes ‘choke’ if you have a WeatherSense in-line too. Removing the WeatherSense and reconnecting the units allows the waypoints to update and you can than reinstall the WeatherSense. I’ve not been told why this happens.

What I said.:)
02-16-2010, 02:04 PM
Fisherman_Wantabe

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Originally Posted by Cane Pole

What I said.:)

Yea but you used them real big words, we can't understand :p
02-16-2010, 02:53 PM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Working

Yep everything working now.
I ended up having 388 waypoints on the 797. I unplugged the wethersense and did the sync and it was successful. I then hooked the weather sense back up and all is functioning.
It had to have something with the amount of data I was trying to pass through the weathersense.
02-16-2010, 02:57 PM
CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Case closed. Let me go ahead and say Greg. You guys at Humminbird are awesome. I already wrote one letter to Johnson outdoors about Eddie and the support I got from him. Guess I will be breaking out the pen again. I just hope the support service never changes.