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Technical Support / Re: Bose A20 Bluetooth

« on: June 10, 2020, 02:18:02 pm »

Hi Nato
I don't use BT in the aircraft anymore but do have a small cheapy speaker that I use at home for testing.
(Not intimating that the Bose h/s is cheap), but i do notice a reluctance for the Paw to detect the speaker in a scan.
I often get it to be discovered by moving it very close to the Paw and once locked on can move it to where I require it and it remains active until switched off.   I'm at a loss to know where all the BT devices are that come up in the list when Paw is first turned on.  I used to use a small BT TX device plugged into the Paw Audio jack with my earlier Pi2 feeding an RX device into the intercom aux. but now have this hard wired to a mixer pre-amp then to the intercom aux.  I can select Paw audio alerts or Nav software alerts, or both if I want. 

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Technical Support / Re: Flightradar24, ADSB, Trig tt21 and PAW

« on: May 24, 2020, 03:42:49 pm »

If your friend watched you on FR24 when you were flying then it sounds like everything is set up properly with your equipment, so that's the difficult bit done 

The FR24 registration is a bit hit or miss. Sometimes aircraft are registered by someone with a tartan thermos flask but other times you have to do it yourself. I sent my details on the FR24 Forum but got a message back saying it had already been done. I can now go into FR24 and play back my flights and get my story straight for the CAA 

Err, whats this reference to the Tartan thermos all about then laddie, I'm sure you meant Burberry.   

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Technical Support / Re: Licence Key Problem

« on: May 16, 2020, 02:26:54 pm »

Hi

Have you gone back to the home page or just rebooted into the configure page as this can happen initially.
I usually see the Licence Expired when it first boots back up but then bringing up the home screen brings up the renewed date.

Regards
Alan

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: OGN-R/Atom GRID - updating the underlying Raspbian OS

« on: April 19, 2020, 10:37:35 am »

Lee, Don't tell your wife that one, especially if you already have a dog!! 

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General Discussion / Re: Aircraft Flying Backwards

« on: March 09, 2020, 10:48:32 am »

Lee

I have never seen this happen in my EFB in flight but do often see a/c apparently flying backwards when monitoring my OGN-R via VRS and I think I have seen it when simultaneously monitoring my EFB connected to my static PAW but assumed it may be due to it being static.

Regards
Alan

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Customer

« on: February 22, 2020, 10:36:52 am »

Hi Paul

You should think yourself blessed, here in Scotland we have a habit of squeezing a minimum 25 hour NPPL course into 3 tears. 

Mmm, I think the above must have been a Freudian slip, I was going to edit it to "years" but thought it was more accurate as is.

Good luck with the Eurofox.

Alan

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: METAR feature in latest software??

« on: December 08, 2019, 08:33:11 pm »

Hi Steve

I don't actually think it needs any configuring, I believe that button slipped into that sub menu during an earlier update and Lee has not moved it back to the Home page yet.
I suspect the software picks up your locally situated airfield metars automatically.

Regards
Alan

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Technical Support / Re: No traffic info on Radar Screen or uploaded to SD

« on: September 11, 2019, 10:29:21 am »

Hi Hugh
You appear to have a couple of issues.  As Paul has remarked there are a couple of power warnings in you home page.
Are you using a power source of at least 2amp and the original power lead or a 20swg equivalent.
Secondly your configure page indicates you are still on the default settings for both bearingless (Mode C/S) and positional contacts.
you should have read and understood the info provided regarding using the Mode S/3D before activating it.  Then you need to set the Mode to activate (+Filter if you have transponder on board) then adjust the filters to your proference which you will find by experimentation.  I suggest Short or Medium as a starter.  The default Ultra Short filters all but very close traffic.
I then personaly use +/- 2000'.  You also then require to set your ranges for Positional targets as the defaults are very narrow ans as far as I know these override SkyDemon settings.  (I don't use SD)
Let us know how you get on

Regards
Alan

Edited to add:  With a new upgrade i usually set all filters wide open to ensure I am receiving traffic and then close them down to my comfort zone. 

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Technical Support / Re: Config Issues after upgrade

« on: July 29, 2019, 12:16:47 pm »

Hi Paddy

might be worth a try to refresh the browser window as it could be that you are using a "cashed" version of the page as sometimes happens.


Alan

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Technical Support / Re: MLAT and EasyVFR

« on: July 24, 2019, 03:28:22 pm »

Hi Smaragd

Can I ask if you are using EVFR3.xxx or are you Beta testing EV4.  I ask because so far in EV4 it does not display the aircraft Icons on the map. There is only the tiny centre circle from the Icon but the text does display and change colour correctly and even shows the ambiguity rings.
I have reported this to Rob Weijers but he's still too busy with all the major work on implementing the various elements of the new software.  He did respond to me and here is a quote from that email.

Quote:To be honest I have no clue at all yet, and I haven't been able to dig into this yet. Part of the problem is of course its so difficult for me to test, since there is no way for me to get such a MLAT datafeed to my system.

So my plan is to somewhere in the future write a little data-traffic capture capability in EV4, and then ask you to capture some data for me. But to be honest that won't be before august, :EndQuote

I haven't noticed any problems with my regular copy of EVFR3.

Alan

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Technical Support / Re: Broken 869.5 Aerial, where can I get a replacement?

« on: July 06, 2019, 05:11:56 pm »

Hi Abe

With regards your broken antenna I would suspect an email to support@pilotaware.com will be the quickest way to order a replacement.
As to your question of satellite co-ordinates I'm not sure what you are referring to, when logged into the Home screen of the PilotAware interface via 192.168.1.1 in your web browser you should see the indicator lights for the various services down the left hand side.  If the GPS is Red it is usually because the software is not seeing a GPS Dongle, if it is Amber this indicates that it has not acquired enough satellites to obtain a lock.  Further along the line of text it tells you how many satellites are found. it requires at least 4 in use.  This can take some time to achieve if you are indoors or have moved the unit since it was last running.
If you do not have a Green light for the GPS you will not get a green light on the P3i TX/RX or the Barometer as these are dependent on achieving a satisfactory satellite lock.  I'm not aware of anywhere in the software that reports the GPS co-ordinates.

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General Discussion / Re: Practical experience using Mode S/3D version

« on: June 25, 2019, 09:04:53 pm »

Ah Lee

you really threw Neil into the lions den there didn't you.  Poor guy deserves a medal the size of a dustbin lid.

For my twopenneth I think a change of name from "PilotAware" to "Aircraft Detection System reBroadcast" is called for, then everybody can have ADS-B and maybe then they will STFU be happy

Alan

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Technical Support / Re: Loss of wifi and throttling despite correct power supply. Help!

« on: June 18, 2019, 09:52:57 am »

Ash

Just for clarity many of the early wifi dongles do have a ring round the plastic cover that shows a red flashing light.
I still have a couple of them in use.  I note that the later ones do not have this feature.
It caused me a bit of confusion to start with when I expected to see it flashing and thought it wasn't working.

That was how I knew it was ready to log into after a reboot or software update. 

Regards
Alan

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General Discussion / Re: Pilotaware software update

« on: June 13, 2019, 07:58:05 pm »

Hi PeterG

If you take the new software the day that it comes out you will most definitely not be n early adopter.
Quite a few of us have been doing that for some months in the fervent hope that most, if not all, of the bugs have been programmed out.
As Peter, (exfirepro,) above has alluded to, it is well worth the wait and I would recommend you upgrade your software at the earliest opportunity. 

Alan

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Technical Support / Re: Power Cable Query

« on: June 11, 2019, 02:50:03 pm »

@Lee

I had been intending to contact you regarding the issue of permanent or semi-permanent installs using the aircraft aux. power supply.  For quite some time now i have been using the Anker PowerDrive5 plugged into an auxiliary cigar lighter socket controlled through the A/C master switch.  This arrangement worked well until fairly recently, (not sure just when or what iteration of the software introduced it,) but I noticed that quite often i would go flying only to find i was not receiving anything from accompanying PAW aircraft.  Each time on landing i would find that the TX/RX on the Home Page was Red.  I would reboot and get all green lights but the same would happen on the return leg.
I eventually came to the conclusion that it was likely my engine startup procedure that caused this.  It always turn the engine over twice for about 5 seconds with throttle/choke closed & switches off, then set choke and switches on for startup.
I decided that this was causing the Rasp.Pi to go through several partial reboots due to voltage drop when the starter was cranking and was causing a glitch in the PAW radio bridge startup.  If i unplugged it after starting the engine and allowed ot to boot normally it was fine.  The answer was to fit a switch in the power line so that as with other avionics the PAW is not powered until engine is started.  I later noticed that our AFI was not showing up on the OGNR when expected and discovers his setup was much like mine and an inline switch also cured his problem.
It was not a problem in the early days but possibly as the software has developed with more processes to load at startup these power interruptions were having a detrimental effect.
It may be worth including something about this in any instructions re units being powered from the a/c auxiliary system.

I would add that my Anker PowerDrive is still through the a/c mains switch so no chance it gets left on.

Regards
Alan