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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: April 10, 2016, 11:04:11 pm »

I'm guessing that's what I've built. I've been trialing it here in Pittsburgh, seems to work pretty well.

If anyone's got any questions I can possibly answer them. I haven't got the AHRS bit going, but the PAW equivalent bits work.

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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: March 23, 2016, 08:07:52 pm »

I'm going to build one up when I get back and will report on how it's doing...

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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: March 23, 2016, 06:57:52 pm »

I'm going to have it sit on my Anker power pack, I managed to run my old PAW setup with all the bells and whistles for about 4 days straight (it had run out of power by the time I got home on the 5th day).

From what I can see here, it appears it burns through CPU with 2 receivers - https://www.reddit.com/r/stratux/comments/3m8t0u/b_support/

Or you could go straight to the Pi 3??? https://www.reddit.com/r/stratux/comments/4aoocl/need_beta_testers_for_new_image/

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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: March 23, 2016, 05:15:23 pm »

That's what happens when you misread WIFI as GPS - good point, my eyes must be getting bad!!

I've got an EDIMAX wifi dongle in one of my RPis at home, so I'll just pull it out of that.

I'm guessing the receivers are the same as the ones previously advised for PAW, if so, I've got at least 2 of those knocking about.

If you're going B+, here's some guidance - https://www.reddit.com/r/stratux/comments/3zpr4j/howto_build_stratux_for_raspi_b_armv6/

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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: March 23, 2016, 02:46:17 pm »

It looks the same... it's a UBlox7 dongle that they're referencing... is it different?

I've got the UBlox, once I'm back in the UK next week I'll start my build. I think I've got most of the components. I'll give it a go with SD, Foreflight and I'll try your Avare app too.

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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: March 23, 2016, 01:09:20 pm »

I wouldn't be using the P3I component in the US, pretty much everything I've seen seems to have ADS-B out and I'd likely be the only one flying around with the P3I bit, which would make it rather pointless.

I'll probably crack on and build one of these for my US flying and stick with PAW for the UK... http://stratux.me/

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General Discussion / Re: Garmin Pilot and PilotAware

« on: March 20, 2016, 03:09:21 am »

Disregard this, seems to work on Bluetooth and seems proprietary...

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General Discussion / Re: AHRS incorporation

« on: March 20, 2016, 03:07:35 am »

Thanks SteveHutt,

So I should probably look at repurposing the kit I have to build the device you posted about from the EAA recently.

Thanks for your advice!!

Steve.

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General Discussion / AHRS incorporation

« on: March 19, 2016, 06:26:35 pm »

Hello all,

I know the PAW unit has the barometric pressure sensor as one of the features, but would anyone know if it would be possible to have the following integrated?

https://www.adafruit.com/products/1604

Reason I ask, and feel free to slap me down for going off piste, is that I'm moving to the US in a few months, I have 3 semi built PAW units and am patiently anticipating the new board to use in my UK aircraft, but I'd like to have another version for the states from the components I have remaining.

My current units all pick up ads-b traffic, and I'm hoping weather, but that's less important. What would be great is if the PAW unit could integrate that board, giving me AHRS input into the foreflight app.

I'm guessing there would be a fair amount of work for Lee and the team to do this, so it might just be a pipe dream of mine, but I'd hope that the feature might be used by others in Europe, or if skydemon etc wanted to include synthetic vision (which is what foreflight uses it for primarily)

Thanks all,

Steve.

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General Discussion / Re: Garmin Pilot and PilotAware

« on: March 15, 2016, 03:25:38 pm »

Hi Lee,

I don't know very much at all about it, just wondered if anyone had any experience with it.

The app is available for 30 days for free on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/garmin-pilot/id340917615?mt=8

I've not downloaded it yet as I'm in the US without my PAW unit, so was planning on having a look when I got back, but thought I'd throw out an initial question.

Here's the app's information: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/on-the-go/apps/garmin-pilot-/prod115856.html

Seems it can handle some form of inbound ADS-B information as it's compatible with this: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/in-the-air/avionics-safety/weather-solutions/gdl-39/prod93601.html

Thanks Lee!!

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General Discussion / Garmin Pilot and PilotAware

« on: March 14, 2016, 04:57:43 pm »

Does anyone know if it's possible to connect a PilotAware system to the Garmin Pilot app on the iPad?

I'm looking for a navigation app I could possibly use in the US and Canada as well as Europe.

Thanks all.

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

« on: December 01, 2015, 09:16:22 pm »

Pleasure, glad my limited knowledge could be of some help!!

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

« on: November 30, 2015, 12:07:25 pm »

You'll need to put your licence code in again... then all should be fine.

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General Discussion / Re: Pilotaware source differentiator

« on: November 30, 2015, 12:06:11 pm »

It would definitely make testing easier! Perhaps it could be configurable from the PAW webpage menu?

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General Discussion / Re: Kits or ready-made device

« on: November 20, 2015, 10:43:30 am »

ohhhh you tease...