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General Discussion / Re: Which device into which USB slot..?

« on: December 10, 2015, 07:41:09 am »

Doesn't say it there - that's software, not hardware..?

I haven't seen it anywhere in the official documentation, only on the boards, but I remember someone said that the wifi dongle worked best in a particular one of the four available USB slots, and I believe the same for the UBlox?

Yes it does, see the photos in Section 6, page 12 onwards!!!

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General Discussion / Re: Software Updates

« on: December 07, 2015, 02:32:09 pm »

Reformat as per the software installation guide.

Whoops - red face here, clearly an RTFM moment but Ian is obviously far too polite to say so, I consider my wrist well & truly slapped 

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General Discussion / Software Updates

« on: December 06, 2015, 11:07:41 am »

I see there is an update available - is it OK just to unpack the update and overwrite the current contents of the SD card or should you reformat the card and start again as though it is a new install?

BTW took the unit  flying on Friday morning and it performed perfectly, down the low-level route between Manchester & Liverpool gave plenty of traffic reports which was very encouraging!

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General Discussion / Re: First Time Booting

« on: December 02, 2015, 03:36:07 pm »

Thanks Ian & Lee - On initial boot the GPS with a fix came up very quickly after the wifi connection was established, but it had taken about 15-20 minutes to do that boot.

It is now working - just my impatience I think together with a combination of being indoors with a limited view of the sky, perhaps just lucky 3 hours ago with the alignment of the satellites in view?

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General Discussion / Re: First Time Booting

« on: December 02, 2015, 02:54:34 pm »

But perhaps I spoke too soon ...... Powered the unit down then tried to restart, Pi seems to start OK, wifi connection is there but no activity at all on the GPS dongle and Skydemon just reports "Seeking GPS satellites"

Is there any particular procedure for shutting down? I just pulled the power.

Unfortunately I don't have an HDMI monitor to see what may be happening
 

Any

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General Discussion / Re: First Time Booting

« on: December 02, 2015, 12:38:22 pm »

One question - it may seem overkill but when I go flying both me & my co-pilot who I usually fly with take our Nexus 7s with skydemon - can we connect both tablets to the PilotAware application? Is it just a matter of doing the same configuration on both?

Oh yes !

Oh yes indeed!!

Worked first time - two Skydemons sat in my kitchen in Bolton (raining too much to go in the garden so we can only see out to the North West) and we are happily seeing commercial traffic to a range of around 30 miles - Just stunning!

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General Discussion / Re: First Time Booting

« on: December 02, 2015, 10:48:27 am »

Well all the bits have arrived for an ADSB only build - so hopefully I'll be reporting back soon with 100% success

One question - it may seem overkill but when I go flying both me & my co-pilot who I usually fly with take our Nexus 7s with skydemon - can we connect both tablets to the PilotAware application? Is it just a matter of doing the same configuration on both?

Cheers