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General Discussion / Re: Known Good Hardware ADS-B dongle

« on: February 13, 2018, 09:08:17 am »

I've had 2 of these ADS-B units fail on me, can you suggest a better one   -  have you any experiance with  this one - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-2-0-TV-Tuner-Stick-Receiver-RTL2832U-R820T-DVB-T-RTL-SDR-DAB-FM-Dongle/172796020856?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D49131%26meid%3Db955b6cf81264d63bfbc55a4cc08122d%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D201349905111%26itm%3D172796020856&_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850

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Technical Support / Re: Skydemon unable to connect to Pilot Aware wifi

« on: June 12, 2017, 09:37:35 am »

Doh !! that worked     
The renewal licence never occurred to me as it was renewed end of May. 

To stop idiots like me wasting your time, it could help others if a note was put onto the licence renewal email TELLING us to enter the key into the PAW. 

Many thanks for your patience and help !!

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Technical Support / Re: Skydemon unable to connect to Pilot Aware wifi

« on: June 11, 2017, 05:38:50 pm »

This is my new Classic PAW,  Wifi shows up on the iPads and iPhone setting list. Tried re-booting all the devices, still the same. All setting in Skydemon and Runway HD checked and are correct.
I'm suspecting the Bridge may have failed as I see these two alternating red and green LEDs flashing on it. !! 

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Technical Support / Re: Skydemon unable to connect to Pilot Aware wifi

« on: June 11, 2017, 07:00:41 am »

Yes, I't been working fine for months, flew down to Old Warden on Friday, came to fly back, connection to the PA unit failed, have tried two iPads and my iPhone all with Skydemon and Runway HD that have always worked with this PA, swapped out the wifi dongle with a spare, still no connection with the Butterfly connect unit ? baffled !!

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Technical Support / Skydemon unable to connect to Pilot Aware wifi

« on: June 10, 2017, 03:43:16 pm »

My iPad see's the wifi from the PA unit, there is a tick next to the PA wifi identifier on the iPad, but No Wifi fan in the top left hand corner of the iPad when.  Sykdemon displays an error 'unable to connect to butterfly' unit when the flarm option is selected in start navigation !!! the bridge has an alternating red and green light flashing that I've not noticed before !!- any one any idea's ??

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 16, 2015, 05:46:28 pm »

Thanks, you were absolutely correct in the sight to the sky assumption. I've been testing sitting the car, its got one of these metallized coating on the windscreen,  which has obviously reduced the reception to the aerial sitting on the dash.  Set it up outside on the roof, absolutely no drop out, worked 100%.  Thank you Lee :-)

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 16, 2015, 08:38:48 am »

Can anyone tell me if these settings and outputs  from 192.168.1.1 all look okay ?

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 15, 2015, 04:19:42 pm »

IOS 9.2.0   SD 3.4.2.19 (just re-installed to see that helped -no)

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 15, 2015, 03:54:16 pm »

Yes, all the surrounding traffic that is being tracked just disappear, my position, maps all remain unchanged, just all the moving traffic drops off the screen, a quick double click on the home button, tap on skydemon and the traffic comes back up just a little further down there route, the time tracked aircraft disappear is around 30 seconds after going back into skydemon, Weird !!

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 15, 2015, 11:27:39 am »

Just a thought, Check the plug on your ADS-B antenna. One of mine lost the little pin in the end of the plug.

Someone had also reported that the solder had broken in the base of antenna.

D'oh !!  Yep, it does help plugging in the aerial, thank you  !!!! All the traffic comes to life for 30 secs and then disappears, intermittent  !!

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 15, 2015, 11:10:10 am »

Now getting traffic, but its intermittant, on for few seconds or 30 secs, then disappears, then re-appears 30 secs or so later.   Interestingly, when all the traffic disappears off the screen, if I double press the home button on the ipad  and then go back into skydemon the traffic re-appears.

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 15, 2015, 10:48:42 am »

New system, booted OK, good power source, all lights on PI and shield, connected to Pilotaware wifi and collision aware is on, skydemon set to Flarm in traffic source, with 6000 key, Navigation, other traffic set to +- 50K, Select Go fly - Flarm, position shows as correct, BUT no traffic showing, cross check with Flightradar, lots of contacts. Any ideas ?

ADS-B = Enabled, no messages

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General Discussion / Re: Setting up the software

« on: October 15, 2015, 09:15:59 am »

New system, booted OK, good power source, all lights on PI and shield, connected to Pilotaware wifi and collision aware is on, skydemon set to Flarm in traffic source, with 6000 key, Navigation, other traffic set to +- 50K, Select Go fly - Flarm, position shows as correct, BUT no traffic showing, cross check with Flightradar, lots of contacts. Any ideas ?