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General Discussion / Re: Kits or ready-made device

« on: October 09, 2015, 10:07:21 am »

A ready made kit would have been better but I've found that building it myself with zero knowledge is fairly easy to do and not something which should put you off.  I speak as someone who had to ask the guy in Maplins whether I needed to buy solder to go with the iron.    The most time consuming part was getting hold of a usb keyboard for the Pi in my houseful of laptops.   

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General Discussion / Re: Collision aware software

« on: October 09, 2015, 09:56:43 am »

Thanks Hugh

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General Discussion / Collision aware software

« on: October 08, 2015, 10:47:06 pm »

I've built the box using the slice of pod method. It seems to work so far and I'm picking up traffic from about 35 miles away when on the ground, albeit all of it airline traffic on ads-b. Just a couple of questions if I may?

1.  The collision aware app only has the "p3i connected or disconnected" slider.  It connects all right but I can't see the icao code, power or region boxes which are shown in the construction guide. Has the software been changed or is something not working?

2.  I'm getting a slowly flashing red light on the Pi. I understand this indicates a power problem. Everything seems to be otherwise ok. Should I worry about that red light?

Appreciate any advice.

Roderick