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Technical Support / Re: Power socket on Rosetta

« on: April 09, 2025, 08:28:27 pm »

Should we consider hardwiring the power cable to the circuit board?

There are instructions elsewhere to hard wiring the power directly in, but again, for technically able, please don't destroy your PAW in the process of soldering if you are not sure, or break it trying to get it open.

Unlike a normal Pi there is a daughter board in the case with the main RF stuff on it.

I'm wondering if using a proper electrical contact cleaner spray will solve your problem, but again, it's a risk... from memory, the case is clipped together.

IF you replace the Pi motherboard you will need to get an update to the licence before the software will work again...

I use this for cleaning contacts and fibre ends in broadcast, but it's your call:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285425334571

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General Discussion / Re: Map of ATOM stations

« on: April 08, 2025, 02:23:34 pm »

Is there a map available showing the location of the ATOM ground stations?

Have a look here, it is not an official map but you will get an idea:

https://playback.pilotaware.com/playback/groundstations/?

Filter your Vector by date and view the flight for the same period here by setting the right ICAO code, date, time and type of EC.

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General Discussion / Re: What is a Bus_van?

« on: April 05, 2025, 09:57:54 pm »

The owner of that ground station is a developer, and has an app for paragliding EC.

In that flavour of EC, where EC is used for tracking and retrieve after cross country flying, the Bus_van or any other retrieve vehicle as a slightly different profile within the app.

Not sure how the retrieve vehicle is getting into the system, it may be a FANET beacon or via mobile broadband, like SafeSky, or any of the PG apps.

Look for XCGuide on Android for more info.

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Technical Support / Re: Track file discrepancies

« on: March 21, 2025, 07:41:28 pm »

Thank you Steveu. I flew yesterday, was tracked fine by ground stations but the track file showed a sudden excursion after lift-off near B to the middle of the North Sea! I'll try a new card; please remind me - do I just plug it in or do I have to register it in some way?

There are destructions on the PilotAware site. If you use this but use a fresh card instead of reformatting the old one:

https://www.pilotaware.com/knowledgebase/manual-software-update

Make sure you have all the details copied from the old card. If you can't access it then find the licence number from your last renewal, other stuff should be easy to find out. Do not forget to sort out call sign and ICAO code!!!

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pi bust too

« on: March 21, 2025, 07:27:19 pm »

Thanks for the suggestions so far nothing seems to improve. Its got me Beat! Tried back at the aircraft and It just drops WIFI connection. It just refuses to stay connected. It now also drops connection at home too.  I've just about given up with it.

I've just noticed the Red And Green lights on the Pilot Aware transmitter board have stopped flashing alternate now the connection is lost (not PI)

PI Board now just has Red Light and no Green.

Richard

Did it connect properly at home before?

I'd be tempted, if you've got it at home, to plug a monitor into the HDMI socket and see if it gets to a login screen at the end of the boot up.

If it doesn't, get a fresh SD card and install the software onto that, followed by licence key entry.

Then try again. Home router cnnection can be a problem if your router is using the 192.168.1.1 address for itself.

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Technical Support / Re: Track file discrepancies

« on: March 20, 2025, 09:06:02 am »

Than you Peter. G-DENS, 40263C. Is a fixed amount of card space allocated to track files and would overwriting when full cause a temporary dropout?

I'd put money on it being the SD card overall.

If they get very cold then they fail to respond properly. They are also not the most reliable of media.

It might be worth considering a brand new card?

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Technical Support / Re: RH Light stays blue

« on: March 20, 2025, 08:48:23 am »

Sometimes there is the 192.168.1.1 conflict - without seeing your network topology its not possible to say if this is an issue or not.

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pi bust too

« on: March 06, 2025, 04:14:56 pm »

Can your try with another device? Any friends with Android phones?

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pie Bust?

« on: February 28, 2025, 08:01:17 pm »

Progress has been made. I have managed to connect to iPhone and enter all details and Key, No Problem.

The problem now seems to be that it will not connect to iPad Mini Gen2 (I know I need an upgrade) but its all worked perfectly up to the new Pilotaware Update. Connection to home Wifi works fine browsing web no problem. Changed to wifi Pilotaware hotspot and unable to open setup pages. I will take it back to the aircraft next week as all antennas are there so I can not fully test here at home.

Richard

You need to be wary if using the PAW at home and connecting it to your home router. 192.168.1.1 is often the router's own address, and an IP conflict can occur.

Additionally if the iPad changes back to your home Wifi and the router is on 192.168.1.1 it may not access it but not say it is not there?

A lot of Apple stuff needs to be told to stay on a network with no internet access, rather than auto connect to something else...

Is the iPad trying to connect to an https URL as Peter warned about?

If another device can connect correctly to the PAW and show pages, and the iPad does not, then the iPad is faulty or its IP set up is incorrect...

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pie Bust?

« on: February 27, 2025, 09:16:56 pm »

If you plug an HDMI cable with screen in, does the device finish its boot up sequence?

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Technical Support / Re: Identification of type

« on: February 21, 2025, 10:15:59 pm »

Thank you steveu, link is below, aircraft BNRP and BOJW as noted on earlier post at around 13:00.

https://playback.pilotaware.com/playback/?track=fb9f0bd7

So here we can see the aircraft G-BFSY wrongly identified in the attachment.

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Technical Support / Re: Volume too quiet

« on: February 18, 2025, 12:48:03 pm »

Active mixer with gain or accept quiet PAW...

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Technical Support / Re: Volume too quiet

« on: February 18, 2025, 09:11:26 am »

Ignore the mixer - the volume is low even when paw is connected directly to the garmin aux in. If I connect anything else the volume is fine.

We have dealt with this before on this forum - as the Pi is primarily an education device the output volume is low even at maximum.

1. Check the volume is set to 10 in the web GUI.

2. Are you using any sort of isolation transformer in line with the PAW feed to get rid of hum? If so, there will be a big drop in volume.

If you search the forum, you'll see the previous posts about low volume.

Have you turned up the volume on the Garmin aux in? This is in a menu IIRC. Another user found this to be the solution, turn up the aux input to make the PAW audible, then turn down the Skydemon audio to match.

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Technical Support / Re: iGrid sees more than Atom?

« on: February 17, 2025, 07:35:51 pm »

Does anyone have any insight into an issue raised by someone on this forum:
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=135995

Specifically the pilot is receiving Flarm via iGrid but not via atom when the iGrid drops out

My first insight would be to ask on the right forum, and not a forum where people are stuck in a tedious loop with "Track up/North up" crap which pollutes every thread it can.

Ground station (ATOM) infrastructure in the region of Challock took a hit when Barham's Mill Farm, a strip just to the South, shut in November and the ground station there had to be removed. I was based there.

He may be just North of Headcorn but the station at Challock is over the hill and on the slight North facing slope over the crest of the Downs. It may not be line of sight, so is obscured.

Therefore all FLARM data will have to come via iGrid.

HTH.

Second point with Skydemon and iGrid. Unless one is clever, in which case if one is having to ask, one is not, keep it simple, and have a cheap device to provide Internet access, and another to do SD and connect to the PAW Wifi. Yes, a clever device can do both, but it involves either juggling to be successful or plain frustration.

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Technical Support / Re: Volume too quiet

« on: February 17, 2025, 07:20:20 pm »

Until recently, I’ve been feeding the audio output from the Rosetta into a passive mixer alongside a input from SkyDemon. These are then routing into the auxiliary input into my panel mounted Garmin intercom.

The audio from the PilotAware is very quiet on the ground and almost unreadable in the air. I had thought that this was due to the passive mixer I was using and I’ve tried different combinations. However, after plugging the PilotAware output directly into the Garmin, it’s still very quiet.

Any suggestions?

Solution 1.

Get both traffic and airspace alerts from Skydemon. Unplug the PAW audio. Then you no longer need audio from PAW, as PAW data is vocalised by Skydemon along with airspace and the two don't talk over each other. If your SD audio is loud enough, then this is one stop shop.

Solution 2.

Get a small active mixer that can be powered by USB. However, airspace and traffic may talk over each other.