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General Discussion / Re: Transmit power and range

« on: October 28, 2015, 09:25:52 pm »

A thought, can the ARF board be remote mounted with the antenna and the control cable run back to the Pi, no coax needed, we could also do with decent antennas especially with the flex wigs as we don't won't stray bits n pieces going through the prop.

Nick

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 28, 2015, 09:20:22 pm »

Just updated skydemon and the good news it all works, just need to find out how to mount in the airplane.

Thanks
Lee and the team.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 27, 2015, 08:51:32 pm »

Well, that didn't work.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 27, 2015, 01:21:28 pm »

Just found this on the skydemon web site posted three days ago

 "So I think I have found the issue I was having with PFLARM and SD not connecting. I just hadn't noticed that the butterfly connect code had been reset to the default of 1234 in the s/w update and there was now a new place the code under Setup->Device Connectivity Options...  "

don't know if this is the answer to my problem with butterfly connect. worth a shot me thinks..


Nick.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 26, 2015, 04:00:23 pm »

Cheers Rob, see where you are coming from but I have solid WiFi connection with the paw. Tried in the car and at work to eliminate this.

Thanks
Nick.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 26, 2015, 01:56:10 pm »

Hi Lee
just rebooted, I see there is Data on the TCP now, thought that I had seen something there earlier, still no good though, hey ho.

cheers

Nick.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 26, 2015, 01:26:06 pm »

Thanks Lee
I have no idea how you set tcp on the tablet, I have a garmin etrex with a rs232 to usb  adaptor would the pilot aware read that data I presume the garmin outputs a NMEA sentence.

I'll try and get hold of a USB gps dongle when they are back in stock, I have the pressure module but I'll get the thing working before I fit that.

Cheers

Nick

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 26, 2015, 01:05:47 pm »

Hi Lee
screen shot attached along with shot of Pilot aware Android with location Data

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General Discussion / Re: Newcomer to Pilotaware who is just a bit too dense to understand the basics 😊

« on: October 25, 2015, 01:49:08 pm »

Let us know how you go one with your galaxy tab 3 as I cannot get mine to work with the paw and running pilot aware for android. Waiting for a gps dongle and hopefully that will allow it to work. Cheers Nick

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 23, 2015, 10:42:43 am »

Right Guys
lets start again, Latest software installed on pi, PilotAware Android running and showing a position fix, Interface Data all looks good apart from Navigation which says off. Open skydemon and run FLARM with key set to 6000. wifi dongle is the same and came from the same place as the one listed in the known hardware section, good power supply and no other networks about. Still get the butterfly connect error ?

Tablet is the Samsung Galaxy tab 3 Android version 4.4.2

Just ordered the pressure module, and the GPS dongles are out of stock on e bay at the moment

remaining hopeful for a solution

Nick.

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General Discussion / Re: List of Units participating

« on: October 23, 2015, 08:13:00 am »

Air Creation Tanarg
G-CHFT
Cottage Farm
Twycross
Not quiet running yet but almost there.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 22, 2015, 08:29:42 pm »

Thanks Chris, I have already done that and it appears to work.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 22, 2015, 07:56:24 pm »

Hi Lee
should have the screenshot attached, I was having grief copying PA to the sd card and went with the first one I had success with. I presumed possibly wrongly that the fix came from the device running skydemon as in the original hardware spec there was no mention of a gps dongle.

The wifi dongle I have in at the moment has an expiry date, it was another that I tried and put in the licence key that returned a zero.

Bet your getting fed up of this...brill job though

Nick.

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 22, 2015, 06:35:40 pm »

Swapped the dongle again, licence key already there but no expiry date, re installed key, save, reboot, but still no expiry and tx/rx still off, presume that dongle is no good, put the original new one back expiry date back and tx/rx on but butterfly error persists, looks like I'll have to buy another dongle to prove one way or another. 

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General Discussion / Re: Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 22, 2015, 06:11:22 pm »

Thanks Hugh
thought as much but thought I would check, I'll give it go.

Cheers

Nick.