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General Discussion / Re: Request a simpler system.

« on: November 03, 2015, 10:41:44 am »

What about using one of the small 2.8" displays which interface directly onto the PI if you just want to display "local" traffic, a bit like some of the Flarm boxes? The 7" touch display is nice but I would not want another 'largish' screen in the cockpit to look at. Personally having everything in Skydemon works for me but I understand that not everybody want to use yet another system....

Carl

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General Discussion / Re: RF Board Progress

« on: October 23, 2015, 10:25:37 pm »

Is this the article?

http://www.nats.aero/projecteva/

Carl

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General Discussion / Re: Regulator board & ARF Board

« on: October 14, 2015, 04:41:30 pm »

I didn't solder all the pins from the ARF board to the shield only the power, earth and data pins and a couple on the "other" side just to hold the unit down ... just in case I ever need to remove the board. Seems to work Ok?


Carl

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General Discussion / Re: USB Dongles fit and Overheating

« on: October 13, 2015, 10:59:33 am »

I have a DIGITAZ branded dongle, it's warm after 12 hours but not 'hot'. Unlike the 'recommended' dongle it does not have the flashing LED to indicate that it's working so perhaps not having the LED helps keep the temperature or at least reduce the power load on the power supply?
The DVB-T is warm but not very hot (yet)

Probably fine for my flights which are usually less that 2 hours long 

Carl

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

« on: October 10, 2015, 09:29:55 am »

Thanks for the advice... I will ... :-)

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General Discussion / Power supply

« on: October 09, 2015, 12:35:07 pm »

Just bought one of these off Amazon:
 http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00VJSGT2A?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
Seems like a good price with a decent amount of power and not too big . Just need to see how long it lasts. Hopefully I can use it to keep my iPad working at the same time.

Carl

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General Discussion / ARF Board

« on: October 09, 2015, 12:25:20 pm »

Hi,

Is there a 'simple' way of seeing if the ARF board is connected and working as it should? Sorry if this has been covered before but I could not find anything..

Carl

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General Discussion / Switching off

« on: October 09, 2015, 12:14:45 pm »

Is there a 'safe' way to switch off the unit rather than just unplugging the power? I have another Pi connected to my TV and it always 'complains' if I just pull the power and sometime even corrupts the OS?

Carl

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

« on: October 09, 2015, 12:11:39 pm »

Setting 40000 feet certainly helps, I can see traffic lining up to land at Stansted 

Thanks all for help and advice..

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

« on: October 09, 2015, 12:09:11 pm »

No expense spared, £1.99 off eBay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161695308034?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

It does work but the range is less than 2 feet!! 

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

« on: October 07, 2015, 06:55:51 pm »

Setting the 6000 FLARM codes seems to have done the trick  I have moved the Wifi dongle to the furthest USB port and it's slightly better. I have a load of WIFI points around (!!) so that probably does not help although none on channel 9 ..
I saw one plane briefly which is a good sign but I am indoors and it's getting dark so not much traffic around here, Stansted and Luton are about 40 miles away but I probably need to stand out in the rain to pick up anything?

Thanks for all the help, so far so good
Carl

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General Discussion / Newbie problem with wifi and Skydemon..

« on: October 07, 2015, 05:14:09 pm »

HI, My first attempt... well second actually

I have everything connected (hopefully correctly)
Software installed and the system booted and license code loaded ..

I can connect to the wifi as long as I am within about 1 foot of my Pi but not further?

The CollisionAware app on my ipad connects but all I see is a blank screen with the title Pilot31 CollisionAware and single 'switch' and a message saying connected? Should I see more?

If I boot up SkyDemon and select go flying with the FLARM option I get the message "Failed to establish a connection with the Butterfly Connect unit"??

All suggestions welcome, hopefully it's something silly which I am doing..

Thanks
Carl

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General Discussion / Re: Regulator board & ARF Board

« on: October 05, 2015, 11:39:52 pm »

Hi
When you solder the ARF to your board, do you need to solder all the pins or just the one's you need?

Carl

For my board you can leave all the pins connected, no need to miss any out.  I only connect those required for operation, the rest remain isolated.

I was thinking that if only the minimum number of pins were soldered it would be easier to remove the ARF board should you ever need to.? For example, if you produced an upgraded board with a onboard gps 
Carl

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General Discussion / Re: Regulator board & ARF Board

« on: October 05, 2015, 09:46:44 pm »

Hi
When you solder the ARF to your board, do you need to solder all the pins or just the one's you need?

Carl

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General Discussion / Re: Regulator board & ARF Board

« on: October 05, 2015, 05:57:36 pm »

Just ordered one - can't wait to try everything out as I now have all the other parts..