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General Discussion / Re: Testing ARF with a TV tuner

« on: September 18, 2015, 09:13:50 pm »

I can't get anywhere with this SDRSharp thing either. Does anyone have a reliable step by step way of doing this ? I'm at the end of my tether with it all! I see nada on the graph thing I just get "Cannot access RTL device" when I press start and all the various options are all Greek to me.

If I don't have the ADS-B dongle connected to the Pi (because it's connected to the laptop) will the Pi still activate the ARF transmit without it ? The Pi is saying SDR-USB: Error, connect() over and over of course.

P.S with everything attached to the Pi this is the boot sequence I get ...

Does this look like the ARF is working ? Is it possible to tell ?

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General Discussion / Re: Testing ARF with a TV tuner

« on: September 18, 2015, 04:36:30 pm »

Thanks - will try that later tonight.

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General Discussion / Re: Testing ARF with a TV tuner

« on: September 18, 2015, 02:25:45 pm »

Hmmm - two of us got together to test the ARF side of things today with no avail.
I've also tried using that sourceforge spec analyser app with no joy, although I have no idea if that is working either.
If anyone has any further ideas on testing the ARF side I'd be interested. I don't have any fancy test equipment!

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General Discussion / Re: Altitude Accuracy

« on: September 17, 2015, 09:30:33 pm »

Corrected SOP diagram with 5v connections to the Adafruit MPL3115A2.

EDIT: Added it as described in my diagram and on the new software build it indicates it is working 

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General Discussion / Re: Altitude Accuracy

« on: September 17, 2015, 01:19:41 pm »

Ah yes - got that diagram slightly wrong - will remove it and correct it later.

Yea - I wonder whether it would drive the ARF - academic with the SOP board but curious.

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General Discussion / Re: Altitude Accuracy

« on: September 17, 2015, 11:51:18 am »

For ref: the other side of the SOP ...

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General Discussion / Re: Altitude Accuracy

« on: September 17, 2015, 11:47:02 am »

Been thinking about the connections for the MPL3115A2 with the Slice of POD.
I think this would be correct (?) ...

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General Discussion / Re: Altitude Accuracy

« on: September 16, 2015, 09:15:05 pm »

Cool - ordered a couple of MPL3115A2 s. Looking forward to the s/w update.

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General Discussion / Re: PilotAware Unit Trials

« on: September 16, 2015, 04:01:05 pm »

Message me if anyone is likely to be over the Banbury area, ideally over Bloxham just to the south 

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General Discussion / Re: Can any more details shown about other aircraft

« on: September 16, 2015, 03:57:15 pm »

Type and reg ?

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General Discussion / Re: Android

« on: September 16, 2015, 03:55:51 pm »

For balance, I have had it all running for hours this afternoon with no sign of anything stopping working at all 

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General Discussion / Re: Android

« on: September 16, 2015, 12:34:14 pm »

I've had everything running all morning here and eventually I got a message saying SkyDemon (Android) had lost the input (after a couple of hours at least).

Had to restart the Pi. I didn't have it connected to the monitor so can't report any messages from the Pi - sorry.

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General Discussion / Re: Can any more details shown about other aircraft

« on: September 16, 2015, 12:01:42 pm »

Fundamentally I don't think the reg is important from a safety point of view but I agree it would be cool to be able to see and/or some indication of the type of traffic it is (heli, fast jet etc).
One for Skydemon's forum I think rather than here though.

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General Discussion / Re: Configuration screens: What exactly do all the parameters mean?

« on: September 16, 2015, 10:57:34 am »

IIRC all registered aircraft have allocated 24bit hex IDs (shown on G-INFO) regardless of whether they have Mode S fitted or not.

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General Discussion / Re: Wireless Things ARF board optional extra

« on: September 16, 2015, 10:44:19 am »

There's a 3rd option too - use a Slice of Pod board from Wireless Things instead of the Digole or POD.

See the Model B thread for some pics from my build using this approach.