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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: July 03, 2021, 02:26:50 pm »

Well Peter called this one correctly 

Keith Vinning sent me another Dongle (FOC - thanks Keith).

I visited the airfield to try this yesterday. For once, the problem revealed itself as I hoped it would, in that when initially turned on my PAW showed all traffic, but after about 5 minutes, everything but PAW traffic disappeared. I think this fits in with the suggestion that a part is failing after warming up.

Anyway, I replaced the dongle with the one that Keith kindly sent to me, rebooted, and again all traffic became visible (CSAP). The good news is that it stayed visible through about 20 minutes running on the ground. As getting at my PAW involved removing the main panel (and I am always fearful of disturbing something else when I do this), I carried out a 20 minute test flight to ensure my panel was performing as expected, and again the unit worked well.

So I am fairly convinced that the Pilotaware Support team identified and resolved the problem.

Great job guys, thanks very much.

BobD

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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: June 26, 2021, 07:33:46 am »

Hi Guys, and thanks for the help. Peter, I'll take your advice and send my last track file to Support to see if further analysis will throw up anything. I did check the traffic page whilst in flight, which only showed PAW traffic. I had also opened up the parameters  on the Nav display, so I should theoretically have seen everything detected. I use Skydemon for my navigation display,  and know I am getting PAW gps from the "traffic ok" message on my Dynon Skyview display.
After my original post, I went to the airfield armed with my spare Rosetta (I bought it for an RV I am building when the EC offer was running), but tried my classic on the ground before disassembling my panel, and lo & behold, all traffic showed up. So I assumed a temporary  glitch, took the lazy way out, and left everything as is. It was only on this latest flight that the problem  reoccurred. The puzzling thing is why after a reboot when back on the ground, traffic reappeared.
I hate intermittent  problems, they are so hard to track down, if only things operated in a work/fail way, life would be much easier. 

TIA for the help

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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: June 25, 2021, 08:54:54 am »

Thanks Steve, but I know and have used the aircrew playback, but it doesn't show me anything more than I have seen in flight, i.e only the othe PAW aircraft are visible, no Mode C, S or ADSB aircraft, when I know some were around.
I'll  happily send the trk file to PAW, if they think it could help isolate or identify the problem
Cheers

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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: June 24, 2021, 07:58:15 am »

I thought my problem  had been a temporary  hitch, as some adjustments  to the settings seem to bring the other traffic to being visible (whilst I was on the ground). However on a flight to Beccles yesterday, I could once again only see PAW traffic whilst in the air. After an offline discussion  with Jeremy, I'm fairly convinced its not a power problem. Are there any diagnostics I can run on the track files. After rebooting to collect the track files when back at home base, I could once again see Mode C, S and ADSB traffic. I didn't screenshot the home page during the flight this time, but I had all green indicators, except for an Amber on the 1090 indicator.
Weird!

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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: June 07, 2021, 09:16:29 am »

The issue was some of the really early Charge2 units, from back in 2014/2015.  If Bob can drop be either his serial number, order number, or postcode from the order I can look up the order.
The e-mail address is on the website.

Thanks Jeremy, e-mail sent.

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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: June 06, 2021, 09:10:53 am »

Thanks Peter, I use a Charge 2 for power, and have an earlier screenshot from that day showing power ok, so I'll pursue the dongle & antenna question. Fortunately, I have a spare antenna from my early experiments. Unfortunately,  my classic PAW is buried behind the panel (one of the disadvantages of a permanent  installation). Maybe I'll take the opportunity  of upgrading to a Rosetta, whilst I have it apart.
Cheers

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Technical Support / Re: Pilotaware classic adsb not working?

« on: June 05, 2021, 09:24:26 am »

I am experiencing  a similar problem to Falcoguy. On a trip south this week with a fellow pilot, I could see his PAW for about 5Km, and he could see me better (probably due to better aerial positions than me ), but I was picking up no C/S or ADSB signals. I have a spare mouse GPS dongle, and will try that, but any suggestions why this should have happened  are welcome. I have attached home, configuration & traffic page screenshots.

Cheers

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Technical Support / Re: Android Beta Release of PilotAware Now Available

« on: February 01, 2021, 09:56:49 am »

You're  right about step 2 Peter, my bad 
And after me saying how clear the Instructions are as well ! 

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Technical Support / Re: Android Beta Release of PilotAware Now Available

« on: January 31, 2021, 09:31:50 am »

Hi Peter,
that's easy to answer; I plumbed my PAW in behind the panel during the build of my Europa, so I can't  do step 3 until I next visit the hangar.
I connected the USB port to a cable running to a socket on the front of the panel, where I plug in the GPS dongle before each flight, and also currently use to update the image from a USB stick whenever there is an update.
This new method will make updates even easier, I won't have to download  the update at home and transfer it a USB stick. I can download it direct to the tablet I use for flight planning, and navigation in the aircraft, which is permanently wirelessly connected to PAW in flight.
Simples! 
Cheers
BobD

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Technical Support / Re: Android Beta Release of PilotAware Now Available

« on: January 30, 2021, 09:00:11 am »

Well done team a great step forward. Easy App installation and really good clear instructions. I've just completed step 1 & 2 whilst sat in my Living Room, and will check out step 3 as soon as I can get back to the airfield.
Anything that ensures our EC is up to date  and easy to install has to be a good thing. 

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Technical Support / Re: LAA refuse approval to connect Pilotaware to Funke transponder (ADSB out)

« on: January 21, 2021, 09:34:25 am »

https://www.theeuropaclub.org/news/non-certified-adsb-out-a-good-news-update-from-laa-engineering

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Technical Support / Re: HTTP : recv_pthread(): pid 758 : Resource temporarily unavailable

« on: June 19, 2020, 09:01:01 am »

Thanks for the post. This also happened to me recently when updating my licence. Now I know why, it is one less unexplained niggle to worry about,.

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Technical Support / Re: Traffic radar in SkyDemon

« on: December 31, 2019, 05:00:57 pm »

Hi Guys,
I can confirm Graham's note is correct, it's either/or, as seen on my phone & android devices.
The Radar screen appeared in the right hand lower corner of SD, immediately on connection to PAW, during my flight today. I'm not sure if this is due to an update, or if I've just missed it in the past, as I don't recall seeing it before, but pleased to confirm it is working as expected on Android.
(Un)fortunately, never got close enough to any other aircraft for them to appear on the Radar screen, during my flight North today, or during my weather diversion to Doncaster, but that's another story.... 

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Technical Support / Re: Traffic radar in SkyDemon

« on: December 30, 2019, 11:36:53 pm »

Peter/Graham, thanks for the instructions on how to spawn aircraft. I have now tried this in Simulation Mode on both my phone & tablet.
On my phone, in normal Simulation Mode, the traffic option from the SD bubble doesn't appear, until I spawn another aircraft. When I do, tapping the traffic option takes me into a full screen radar display.
On my tablet, when I spawn an aircraft in Simulation Mode, the small radar screen appears on the bottom RIGHT of the display. Tapping this gives me the option of a one-shot increase in display size.
Trevor, whilst I was posting this response on the SD Forum, I see you have done something similar, and posted a response on here.
I'll see if both of my devices react the same way in a live environment if/when I fly tomorrow.

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Technical Support / Re: Traffic radar in SkyDemon

« on: December 30, 2019, 04:31:12 pm »

I'm the guy with the HTC One phone and 8" Huawei MediaPad  T3 tablet. The tablet is running Android 7.0
I can't recall ever seeing the Radar screen, and it certainly doesn't show in Simulation Mode. There is no Traffic option when tapping the SD bubble. GrahamB suggests it is possible to spawn traffic in Simulation mode, and have it show on the Radar screen, but I can't see how.
I hope to fly tomorrow with a Co-pilot, so I should have time to experiment on my tablet with PAW connected.