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British Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: Richard on June 21, 2016, 06:41:43 pm

Title: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
Post by: Richard on June 21, 2016, 06:41:43 pm

Will any of the nav software run directly from the RPI SD card along side Pilotaware? If it will could you not simply add a RPI touchscreen to have a all in one nav and traffic unit. Sorry if it's a silly question. Has any one tried to install nav  software and got it to run on a PI or will not. I would try but don't have a screen.

Title: Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
Post by: Ian Melville on June 21, 2016, 07:08:30 pm

None of the current products will run on Linux, hence cannot be run on the PAW.  If someone did write a Linux mapping software app, then the processor would most likely be overwhelmed. It would also need to be intergrated by Lee.

It could be possible to add a screen that shows targets relative to the PAW, like the Flarm displays, but that is not a mapping application, and not a one unit solution.

Title: Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
Post by: Admin on June 21, 2016, 07:33:18 pm

Well actually xcsoar runs on the kobo which is basically linux

https://forum.xcsoar.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1162&start=10#p5005

Thx
Lee

Title: Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
Post by: Richard on June 21, 2016, 09:04:43 pm

Ok may be something in the future......  Thanks for the replays.

Title: Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
Post by: Ian Melville on June 21, 2016, 09:19:32 pm

That's true Lee, forgot about that one. Not sure I like it as general Nav software though, a bit too specialist.