So firstly what have you switched off/on, I presume PilotAware and your iPad ?
When we stop the aircraft and switch the master off, everthing is off, Pi,Ipad the lot.
You just need to power up PilotAware, it will then be sat waiting to service new connections
When the master is switched back on power is applied to the Pi and the Ipad switches on and I restart Runway HD from the desktop.
This is really down to the Software side of things.
For sure - all the hardware is up and running.
With PilotAware up and running,
1. on the iPad check to see it is connected to the PilotAware-XXXXXXXX hotspot, on my iPad this re-connects automatically
Yes it connects automatically to any hotspot that it recognises and has used previously.
if you are running the PilotAware GPS share utility, this should auto connect (once the wiFi is connected) and display 'connected', does this happen.
Yes it has a green slider and this shows "connected"
BTW, I really recommend using a GPS dongle rather than the GPS Sharing APP
Yes - I have seen you say this a number of times, but I dont know why. My Ipad is mounted high on the panel with excellent view of the sky and runs the Navigation application without any glitches.
Runway HD 'may' need a power cycle, I am not sure if it is able to auto-connect.
RunwayHD gets restarted after the ipad powers up when we turn on the aircraft master switch.
There is a builtin web server to give you lots of information about the system status, simply browse to
http://192.168.1.1 (and save it as a favorite for next time)
The Home screen tells you the state of all interfaces
The Traffic screen will show you if it is receiving any contacts
Yes I have three screens I can flip to, the webserver, the passthrough app and runwayHD. I can toggle between the three to see (try and see) whats going wrong. When I have no traffic on RunwayHD screen, there is no traffic on the webserver page. We get "loss of flarm data" on the screen of runwayHD in an orange/red banner.
The Home page table "Navigation" field tells me it is connected and the ADSB message count increments.
To make it work, I set Flarm to off in RunwayHD
Set the Passthough GPS green slider to off - then on again and then re-enable the flarm in RunwayHD, the screen then Blinks says loss of flarm data again and starts displaying Big Jet traffic, so I know it works, and then I reset the altitude filter.