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General Discussion / Setting up the software
« on: July 30, 2015, 07:21:35 pm »
hi,
I am new to the Raspberry Pi so setting up the software was a bit of an adventure for me. I thought that I'd pass on a couple of pointers.
The SD card formatting program Lee recommends would not recognise the SD card when it was in my very expensive Dell lap top, but I used my wife's HP and it was fine. So, if you have that problem try another computer, or perhaps a card reader off eBay!
Having formatted the card, I downloaded the software zip file, opened it in 7zip (or win zip) and copied the contents to the card. You need to do that so that the readme file is at the root of the card
And not in a sub folder as it is in the zip.
Having done that, I Inserted the card, plugged in the wireless and TV tuner dongles as well as a mouse and keyboard into the Pi. An HDMI cable then connected the Pi to our TV set and I applied power.
Amazingly no smoke!
The next bit fooled me. It comes up with a dialog asking to select an operating system to install. There were three items, so I checked them all on the basis that more is better and clicked install.
The operating system and software was then unpacked from the image on the SD card, a process that takes a while. The prompts seemed to suggest it was working, so I then
1) set the wireless network on the iPad to connect to the device instead of our internet and
2) started up the CollisionAware app on the iPad and turned P3i on then
3) opened up SkyDemon. In SkyDemon you have to configure FLARM to on in the setup menu and set the Air Connect Key to 6000. Then click on Go Flying and turn FLARM on.
That's about it I think.
On subsequent reboots of the PilotAware device, it starts up without any intervention, you just have to connect you iPad to it and 'go flying' with FLARM.
I hope the above is an accurate reflection of what to do. Hopefully Lee will point out any errors and I'll fix them.
Regards,
Colin
I am new to the Raspberry Pi so setting up the software was a bit of an adventure for me. I thought that I'd pass on a couple of pointers.
The SD card formatting program Lee recommends would not recognise the SD card when it was in my very expensive Dell lap top, but I used my wife's HP and it was fine. So, if you have that problem try another computer, or perhaps a card reader off eBay!
Having formatted the card, I downloaded the software zip file, opened it in 7zip (or win zip) and copied the contents to the card. You need to do that so that the readme file is at the root of the card
And not in a sub folder as it is in the zip.
Having done that, I Inserted the card, plugged in the wireless and TV tuner dongles as well as a mouse and keyboard into the Pi. An HDMI cable then connected the Pi to our TV set and I applied power.
Amazingly no smoke!
The next bit fooled me. It comes up with a dialog asking to select an operating system to install. There were three items, so I checked them all on the basis that more is better and clicked install.
The operating system and software was then unpacked from the image on the SD card, a process that takes a while. The prompts seemed to suggest it was working, so I then
1) set the wireless network on the iPad to connect to the device instead of our internet and
2) started up the CollisionAware app on the iPad and turned P3i on then
3) opened up SkyDemon. In SkyDemon you have to configure FLARM to on in the setup menu and set the Air Connect Key to 6000. Then click on Go Flying and turn FLARM on.
That's about it I think.
On subsequent reboots of the PilotAware device, it starts up without any intervention, you just have to connect you iPad to it and 'go flying' with FLARM.
I hope the above is an accurate reflection of what to do. Hopefully Lee will point out any errors and I'll fix them.
Regards,
Colin