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General Discussion / Re: Pi Model B (not B+)

« on: September 15, 2015, 03:44:31 pm »

2) Soldered the wires to the SOP board first. The tape is just there to insulate the ARF board from the SOP board.
Don't do what I did and melt the GPIO connector!! (It works fine fortunately!)

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General Discussion / Re: Pi Model B (not B+)

« on: September 15, 2015, 03:42:07 pm »

So I went down the Slice of POD route with mine ...

1) Desoldered / snapped off / removed these headers from the SOP

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General Discussion / Re: Licence Expiry and future Prices

« on: September 15, 2015, 02:22:14 pm »

Sounds entirely reasonable.

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General Discussion / Re: Pi Model B (not B+)

« on: September 15, 2015, 02:20:13 pm »

Hi - I think it was a duff DVB dongle (Keedox).

I got some more through dongles the post (which look like yours at the show) and all is well with those.

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General Discussion / Re: ARF Shield - Digole 5v-3.3v regulator board

« on: September 14, 2015, 09:08:01 pm »

Or buy a PowerPod when you buy your ARF and use that:

Or buy one of these instead of the POD:

https://www.wirelessthings.net/slice-of-pod-raspberry-pi-to-i-o-pod-plug-and-play-board

Unsolder the 2 extra headers from it so it fits in the box (if required), solder 4 wires to the ARF from it, stick the ARF to the underside of it, plug it into the Pi and you're good to go. Plus you can move it from Pi to another as you don't need to glue it to the box

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General Discussion / Pi Model B (not B+)

« on: September 14, 2015, 08:35:11 pm »

Hi all,

I think I can confirm that Pi Model B appears to work fine as a PilotAware 
Well, I've not tested the ARF side against another PilotAware yet but it looks hopeful (no nasty errors seen so far)

Of course adding a GPS dongle or RS232 cable is not an option with the 2 USB port Model B but the fundamentals seem to work fine.

Thanks Lee for your work and support.

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General Discussion / Re: So, this is what a collision will look like!!

« on: September 14, 2015, 12:30:35 pm »

Neat. Really wish you could config the size / colour of the other aircraft in SD - not one for this forum though!

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General Discussion / Re: How to tell if wrong type of Wi-Fi Dongle?

« on: September 13, 2015, 08:12:53 pm »

It does look like it doesn't have the right chipset in the Wifi dongle yes.

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General Discussion / Re: USB - RS232

« on: September 13, 2015, 02:11:53 pm »

Hmm, lots of questions here

A) This is to provide GPS info into your mode S transponder so it can transmit position info. We have a funkwerk mode S transponder which I think may work with this so is interesting.

Can you tell me what you are referring to ?
I think you may be talking about the early work I did to get an RS232 stream of NMEA sentences out
of PilotAware ?
If so, I prototyped this a while back, and managed to feed a stream of NMEA sentences to the RS232 port on my PC
This could be connected to a Mode S Transponder if desired.
Some configuration setup needs to be done, some transponders use different baud rates.

B) It's not currently legal to connect this (this is what the NATS ADS-B trial is doing)

I hear that this ruling is to be relaxed very shortly

C) Without this, only other PilotAware devices will see position info for you.

Correct, as received on the P3I RF

Also, this is where the model B (rather than B+) stops working as a solution as 3 (or 4 with the GPS dongle) USB ports are required.

This does confuse me, I am using a Pi B+, this works fine, are you thinking that a Pi B+ does not work with PilotAware ?

The issue with PilotAware, is that it does not yet work with the Pi 2

Thx
Lee

Ah OK - I wasn't sure how far the USB ->RS232 / mode S transponder work has come along.

Sorry - just an observation that the Model B with 2 USB ports will probably work with a Wifi dongle and the ADS-B TV dongle but obviously could not then have a GPS dongle or USB -> RS232 connection added as 3 or 4 USB ports would be necessary.

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General Discussion / USB - RS232

« on: September 13, 2015, 01:10:40 pm »

Hi - am I right in thinking:

A) This is to provide GPS info into your mode S transponder so it can transmit position info. We have a funkwerk mode S transponder which I think may work with this so is interesting.

B) It's not currently legal to connect this (this is what the NATS ADS-B trial is doing)

C) Without this, only other PilotAware devices will see position info for you.

Also, this is where the model B (rather than B+) stops working as a solution as 3 (or 4 with the GPS dongle) USB ports are required.

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General Discussion / Re: USB-GPS Working in PilotAware

« on: September 13, 2015, 01:01:40 pm »

Neat!  keep us posted on s/w availability

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General Discussion / Re: Android

« on: September 11, 2015, 08:29:17 am »

Great news Chris. Happy to have a look - don't worry am sure I have seen much worse and I won't rip it to bits!

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General Discussion / Re: Power Supply & USB Power Cable

« on: September 10, 2015, 04:55:50 pm »

I have had some good success with these, for powering my tablet.  They are based on TI chipset and appear to be designed well..give a good charge rate, so will boost your tablet in no time.  Also I have not experienced any of the horrible noise issues with them (those noise issues that seems to be generated by the car plug adapter type USB chargers).. the output seems to be clean and they perform well.  For extra 'belts and braces' I also fitted an extra smoothing capacitor to avoid noise injection into my radio/intercom.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5pcs-LM2596S-DC-DC-Buck-Converter-Adjustable-Power-Supply-Step-Down-Module-UK-/141210161794?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20e0c81282

This would work well with the pilotaware and are really low cost...

in addition, the output voltage is adjustable by the potentiometer (the blue block).. so you can compensate for cable drop/loss by tweaking the output up a little higher than 5V, to say 5.5V (no more).

Interested if you / anyone gets a good 12v -> PilotAware solution working from aircraft power (ours is Permit aircraft so could fit something in theory)

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General Discussion / Re: Multiple iPad connections possible?

« on: September 10, 2015, 12:33:14 pm »

2 would be useful yet plenty I think

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General Discussion / Re: Trying to get my head around this!

« on: September 10, 2015, 12:15:18 pm »

Sorry I see what you mean. The build doc says it should have the "RTL2832U & R820T chipset"