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Technical Support / Re: Incorrect GPS position sent to Trig TT22

« on: September 16, 2022, 04:24:56 pm »

David, I would sugest connecting your USB to serial cable from the PAW to a serial port on a PC and loging the data messages from the PAW. You may need a second USB to RS232 cable or adaptor to make the cross over cable.
Can you also quote the full model number of the USB-RS232 cable you have installed. Perhaps a photo of the label?

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 14, 2022, 06:57:13 pm »

Thanks for that thought Deker. I don't know how John has his PF configured, but will find out. However, I would be suprised if it made any difference. I would assume that PAW can merge data streams, so it will just be two messages in quick succession.

Lee, do you have any comments?

Cheers
Ian

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 11, 2022, 06:36:40 pm »

Spoken to John today and the only GPS is the FLARM one, which provides PAW with position reports. EFIS is not connected to the FLARM/PAW system and has its own GPS. He agrees issue is displayed on SD live.
Not much flying going on today with the fog. didn't bother to do a test.

Any further ideas?
Cheers
Ian

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 08, 2022, 07:52:07 pm »

Hi Lee, I was alerted this time while watching it live on SkyDemon. I cannot be sure which aircraft I was watching as they were jumping all over the place, but know it was circuit bashing, so may have been G-OFSB or 4035E8!G-BUGV which is also having mild fits between 10:11 and 10:20

What you describe may have be an issue with both Aircrew Track Replay and SkyDemon?
On Saturday I will try replaying the flight from the log page into SD

I have a feeling of deja vu about this and may have raised it before from a flight of my own?
Cheer
Ian

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 08, 2022, 09:02:27 am »

Hi Ian

I will download the file and take a look
But what you don’t describe, is how and where the image originates

I am guessing we are looking at two different sources of data

Thx
Lee

Hi Lee. This is not the only one. I just need to swipe the time marker accross and I see more doing the same.

Note: times on Track Replay are one hour behing PAW Log.

The screen shot is from the file for the 13th between 10:11 and 10:33 (time as displayed on Tack Replay) 400E73!G

The other one I quoted above in the file for the 19th is  401B73!G-PETR between 10:13 and 10:20

in the same file between 09:59 and 10:20 (time as displayed on Tack Replay) G-OFSB, though it is possible this is a separate issue as it spends most of it time going north/south and may be an issue with the aircraft kit.

These are the obvious ones. Other aircraft jitter around.

Must dash, work calls
Cheers
Ian

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 08, 2022, 08:12:07 am »

Thanks Deker. That is the same as this installation started out. not sure that it still is and need to check

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 07, 2022, 09:55:32 pm »

Deker, do you have GPS on your PAW, or do you use the data passed through from the PF unit?

This user also has a Kandaris(sic) I think EFIS. connected. Not sure if that also has a GPS? All a bit confusing and will get more details of his setup on Saturday.

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General Discussion / Re: Enhancement Requests

« on: September 07, 2022, 01:02:43 pm »

I disagree marioair. Apps for eveything can become cluttered and may not be accessable when needed. Buttons as described by Steve would be on the end of a cable.
The issue I see is writing the drivers for the RPI and then intergrating them ino the image.

I don't know if there are spare GPIO ports available as it would only require three inputs UP, Down and Mute/Unmute toggle. OK, that is more of a hardware soulution.

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: September 07, 2022, 12:52:20 pm »

Hi Lee, sorry it took a while to get back to you. Aircraft owner and I were never in the same space-time continuum :-)

Having got the logs and have a quick look at them, there are lots of errors on many flights. Some are minor, almost unnoticed, others just daft. If I watch the Track Replay flags, the jumps happen when there is a change in the feeds. i.e. the FLARM flag appears, or the Uplink.  I am sure this is an issue with alternate position reports. It looks as if there are gaps in the quality direct reports filled by less accurate ones, or the less accurate ones are taking precidence.

This aircraft has a PowerFlarm feed into the PAW(which may show SDSB as PF?), but I am also seeing the same on my own PAW a while back(not flown with much traffic for a while now, but can set atest this weekend)

It really saps the credability of PAW as a useful tool when you see tracks like the attached file. Hope this is an installation issue.

As for the ICAO codes of offenders, there is plenty of choice but start with
2022-08-13_10-53.trk 400E73
2022-08-19_10-00.trk 401B73

Link to files https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xsq9axlcrl7xorq/AADIic87QMRUnj1gwu0k0GS5a?dl=0

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General Discussion / Re: Enhancement Requests

« on: September 03, 2022, 09:08:01 pm »

Missed a bit top right corner :-)

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Technical Support / Re: Software upgrade and ghosting

« on: August 27, 2022, 09:29:53 pm »

Host it somewhere like dropbox and send a link to support.

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Technical Support / Re: Software upgrade and ghosting

« on: August 27, 2022, 09:08:40 am »

Yes, though the updates are not supposed to, they can mess up the hex code. I would check that first.

Has happened a couple of times to me and is more likely if the pervious version is quite old.

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Technical Support / Re: Mixed data feeds

« on: August 15, 2022, 09:59:47 am »

Thanks Lee, I will try and get that from The aircraft next weekend.

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Technical Support / Mixed data feeds

« on: August 14, 2022, 11:00:34 pm »

I was on the ground yesterday looking at a complex PAW instalation, that the owner reported discrpencies between a PAW Classic installed with Power Flarm feed and mouse, and a standalone Rosetta. Both in range of an ATOM station.
I occasionally saw missing traffic, but the one that got me was an aircraft in the circut that kept jumping a couple of miles to the north of the circuit and back. Owner disconnected the FLARM and ADSB antenna and the jumping stopped.
Aircraft location remained correct for both units, so not a GPS issue.
Line of sight may have been obstructed at times.
I first suspected that it may be an MLAT report that is intermitantly being used, but that would not make sense as MLAT is sent to both units on the PAW frequncy. So is this an issue with FLARM direct from the aircraft in the circuit to the PF unit?
Unfortunatly I had simulator sessions to run so was not able to check the traffic table etc. Are there any logs that can help?

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Metal ATOM Case?

« on: August 05, 2022, 06:36:51 pm »

I'm due to revamp one of my installations and have been expecting news of these cases.