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Technical Support / Re: Voltage error message on iphone

« on: September 17, 2023, 06:39:12 pm »

I’m using Rosetta. The following in the USB ports : dongle, GPS, aircrew, and Wi-Fi. The PAW is powered from the 12 volt cigarette lighter using an Anker QC adapter. Even with the voltage error message on the iPhone the radar screen seems to be giving me all the info it’s supposed to and generally works very well

With all due respect, the "it is working so what is the problem?" approach has a slight flaw in the logic.

When the voltage is low, the processor may throttle itself in terms of processing speed/power and whilst things will work, they will not necessarily work how they are meant to.

The voltage alarm is most likely caused by the Aircrew device, if it is powered via its USB port, unplug it and the problem will probably go away.

If you need a data link to the Aircrew device to display traffic, then see if you can power the device directly with 12V in and just use the USB for data input.

There is a 12V input on the back.

I think you'll find elsewhere on this forum that people have been advise against powering Aircrew from a PAW...

Lee can give you precise details about how much throttling affects the PAW, but if you continue to use it whilst throttled you are asking for  other problems to arise at some point.

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Technical Support / Re: Voltage error message on iphone

« on: September 17, 2023, 04:14:25 pm »

I think the iPhone is a red herring. The PAW just monitors voltage and complains if it is too low.

How does the PilotAware get its power input?  Via an Anker 12V to USB converter, a Charge 2/4 or a power pack, or something else? If a power pack is it low?

If something else then this is very often the problem. There are recommended power sources for a PAW and using other things is often the source of problems.

Is anything plugged into the PAW USB ports other than the GPS, Wifi dongle or the SDR modules? If so, unplug it, as charging something over and above the standard complement of modules is also a known point of failure.

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Technical Support / Re: No aircraft audio alerts on Skydemon but visible on radar

« on: September 03, 2023, 03:10:42 pm »

It's worth considering that a tiny bit of static, let alone normal radio reception can cause the SkyDemon verbal warnings to stay quiet. I am not sure if this is a SkyDemon thing (I cannot find any reference to muting in the manual) or if it is the radio settings. I have my iPad connected to SkyDemon via Bluetooth, so I do not think it is necessarily anything to do with my radio muting settings. What I do know is my SkyDemon traffic audio is non-existant if there's radio chatter or static.

I'd definitely agree with this if the PAW had been taken into a Microavionics intercom via a 3.5mm jack, as the radio ducks all the other audio inputs. Think it's the same for BT...

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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: September 03, 2023, 01:17:27 pm »

I'll just muddy those waters by saying I have an iPad Mini 4 and not an Android in sight 

But you can still look at received RF power for the Wifi network...

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Technical Support / Re: No aircraft audio alerts on Skydemon but visible on radar

« on: September 03, 2023, 01:16:14 pm »

This will show if the alerts were generated by the Rosetta. If not, Rosetta settings, if yes, then an SD problem.

Lots of speaker alerts visible on the trace. Closest aircraft was further than I thought at just under 2nm and 300ft below but while initially travelling right to left was then in front of me same direction for a bit before I changed heading. If all the speaker traces are things I was likely to have heard then I didn't. Very odd

I'm looking at SD now and the audio alerts for trafifc are set separately from airspace, obstacle and terrain. So it is possible to have traffic verbal information unticked, hence no traffic info, and yet all the other warnings  working.

YMMV

I can only suggest that you go back to Skydemon, and check the traffic box is ticked and the limits set correctly, and also check the same settings in the PAW, but the PAW less likely as it's recording alerts being made...

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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: August 31, 2023, 10:26:22 pm »

If anyone is concerned about the PAW receiving GPS, they can download the tracklog for the particular flight from the device and upload it to playback.

When scrolling through the tracklog, the number of satellites received at any time will be show IIRC.

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Technical Support / Re: No aircraft audio alerts on Skydemon but visible on radar

« on: August 31, 2023, 10:42:41 am »

May I suggest extracting the track logs for the flights in question from the PAW Rosetta and uploading them to Aircrew/PAW playback?

You can leave them as not public but then send the resultant link from the upload to Lee, or anyone else you want to share with.

Audio alerts at PAW level will be marked on the trace with a speaker...

https://playback.pilotaware.com/playback/

This will show if the alerts were generated by the Rosetta. If not, Rosetta settings, if yes, then an SD problem.

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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: August 31, 2023, 10:18:59 am »

App details separate. Attachment limits are very small and difficult to comply with...

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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: August 31, 2023, 10:17:35 am »

Running Skydemon on my 'bad' tablet and good phone.
Lots of disconnections on the tablet after 10 to 15 mins, but the phone was rock solid.
I think this more of an Android issue than a hardware problem.
I'll try putting a sim in the tablet to see if its is a network problem? (clutching straws)

The SIM may confuse the issue, as if the table connects to the Internet directly over CGNAT it may not see any of the PAW LAN. It might still connect via Wifi though...

I'd suggest that you load the same Wifi analytics app on both phone and tablet. As an example, VREM Software Wifi Analyzer.

Compare them side by side looking at the same Wifi networks. Any noticeable difference in receive power would point to problems in the RF amp or internal antenna damage?

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Technical Support / Vector page in Android landscape mode - date button covers "Go"

« on: August 25, 2023, 08:50:46 pm »

I'm sure this has arisen before, but I have searched the forum and drawn a blank for mobile phones.

Went using Vector on an Android phone turned landscape, the date button sits over the Go button, and only by zooming to mad magnification can the Go button be pressed.

I'll send a screen dump later but is this bug on the radar, please?

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Technical Support / Re: No aircraft audio alerts on Skydemon but visible on radar

« on: August 25, 2023, 08:15:18 pm »

Can't remember the exact PAW limits I've set but they have been unchanged for the last 2 years at least, ditto the tablet. Evening before last I had several contacts visible on tablet and phone screen including two in the red, one 300 below and one same level but somehow the tablet is not generating the audio alerts for traffic despite being set to while producing audio for everything else.

I have known settings change or for the settings to be lost.

If you are getting traffic alerts via Skydemon then there should be no limits set in the PAW, AIUI. The PAW sends everything and the limits are set in Skydemon?

Sometimes software updates change things or reset values, but this does not explain why it might happen that you lose traffic mid flight.

A lot of fault finding involves elimination, and the first thing I would eliminate is the software settings in the PAW and SD.

I'm looking at SD now and the audio alerts for trafifc are set separately from airspace, obstacle and terrain. So it is possible to have traffic verbal information unticked, hence no traffic info, and yet all the other warnings  working.

YMMV

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Technical Support / Re: No aircraft audio alerts on Skydemon but visible on radar

« on: August 25, 2023, 12:00:29 am »

Do you get audio traffic alerts direct out of the Rosetta via the 3.5mm jack or BT and if you go to the Rosetta radar page are the limits for alerts set fully open?

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Technical Support / Re: GPS No Fix - 22 satellites in view - 0 used - left on for 1:40hr

« on: August 22, 2023, 02:12:38 pm »

+1 with JCurtis, leave outside in plain sight of the sky.

Then replace, perhaps?

What settings did you use for PuTTY, please?

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Technical Support / Re: GPS No Fix - 22 satellites in view - 0 used - left on for 1:40hr

« on: August 22, 2023, 09:50:03 am »

When was this screenshot taken?

The date is wrong so the GPS almanac will not work as I understand it?

Until the GPS has made the time and date correct, it may not work.

The real engineers will be along shortly...

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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: August 14, 2023, 06:30:09 pm »

Has anyone worked through Peter's instructions about Wifi power on the previous page?