Whoop,Whoop, I've got little green planes buzzing me on EVFR!
Roweda talked me through connecting PAW to EV by phone, on Thursday evening. Comparing logging messages with his unit, I appeared to have a software corruption on my PAW because the boot-up sequence was stopping prematurely.
Downloaded software once again and installed in PAW. Also took the precaution of using a higher current power bank to eliminate low voltage problems during initial boot-up.
In the meantime Dave had sent a PAW unit to Rob Weijers at the Pocket FMS Foundation for testing with iOS devices. Rob discovered a potential problem with PAW having no DNS address in the Pilotaware hotspot IP DHCP settings. Apparently Flarm does have DNS and the "FLARM" interface in EV requires this. It had been omitted by Lee in response to a request for cellular iPads to be able to retain cellular connectivity for downloading weather, notams etc while connected to EVFR and PAW.
I did an initial boot of my PAW earlier today and suffered the same lack of connectivity between my iPad and PAW that I was getting previously. I decided to try the work-around that Rob suggests in the PFMS forum EasyVFR thread, "Known issue with EasyVFR and Pilotaware on Apple devices without cellular datalink". Once I applied the work-around to the PAW hotspot settings in "iPad settings", all of the interface problems disappeared. This workaround should NOT have been necessary with a "working" cellular model, but I am on Pay as You Go, and don't have a current data allowance, so it seems I have to apply it also in these circumstances.
I'd like to thank both Dave and Rob for their first class support with this issue.