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General Discussion / Re: RSS feed for this forum
« on: April 06, 2020, 11:59:56 am »
Quote from: Moffrestorer on April 06, 2020, 11:08:02 am

Any chance you could elaborate for the rest of us?


You can either visit a huge number of web sites each day to see if there is anything new, or you can use an RSS Reader, which looks at a number of sites you have listed or loaded in it, and from them it pulls the new content only, and offers it to you.

This means you can have all your news, forums and other web stuff in one place. Not all web sites support RSS, and vBulletin forums are appalling for their suport, or don't have but otherwise, broadly speaking, it's a big asset especially if you have to keep tabs or news or products web sites.

Wikipedia entry for RSS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

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General Discussion / RSS feed for this forum
« on: April 05, 2020, 06:39:33 pm »
Just found the RSS feed for this forum, superb, thanks, makes it much easier to keep up with developments.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: WiFi
« on: February 18, 2020, 10:57:48 pm »
Quote from: peter.seddon on February 12, 2020, 10:59:11 am
My best estimate is about 12 to 16 GBytes a month which is too steep for the club to sustain as there is a wired receiver a couple of miles away.

On GiffGaff we have £12/month is 10GB data.

£15/month is 15GB data

£20/month is 40GB data

All Pay as You Go.

Three, £23/month is 15GB.

Other networks cost more.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
« on: December 27, 2019, 05:25:57 pm »
Reporting back:

I swapped the Pi2B for a Pi3B, plugged everything into the Pi3B except the WiFi dongle as the Pi3B includes WiFi. I moved the SD card across, and booted up.

Bingo, 360 Radar display. Configured the display how I wanted it, then shut down Chrome so it memorised the set up.

On next boot, everything is happy. I have 360 Radar and the METAR screen on a loop, 45 seconds of each.

I'm using Raspian Buster standard version.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
« on: December 27, 2019, 12:23:39 pm »
I'm running a Pi2B in kiosk mode and am unable to get the 360 Radar screen up. I get the header but nothing else.

It's running Raspbian and I'm going to assume that there's also insufficient grunt, so I'm going to swap it out for a Pi3B.

I'm going to be daft and swap the SD cards over and hope...

Will report back.




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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: PilotAware and OGN-R in MF this month
« on: December 13, 2019, 06:35:08 pm »
Quote from: Ian Melville on December 08, 2019, 09:38:58 pm
MF ? Is that the BMAA magazine?

Yes.

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OGN-R PilotAware / PilotAware and OGN-R in MF this month
« on: December 08, 2019, 05:08:54 pm »
I've done an article on building an OGN-R station in MF this month along with a backgrounder on Electronic Conspicuity interoperability.


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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Data usage
« on: December 08, 2019, 05:06:11 pm »
Seems like Giffgaff and Three are good for some serious deals ATM:

https://www.giffgaff.com/sim-only-plans

http://store.three.co.uk/view/searchTariff?priceplan=&deviceType=SIM_ONLY_MBB

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OGN-R PilotAware / METAR feature in latest software??
« on: December 08, 2019, 05:00:56 pm »
Just seen the METAR button in the latest software but can't see how to configure it.

How does this work?

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
« on: December 08, 2019, 04:54:32 pm »
You can't without another Pi.

Insufficient resources and no GUI installed.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Updating from Release 20191008
« on: December 08, 2019, 04:53:11 pm »
PWEgerton updated.

I have a USB keyboard and a recycled monitor attached to the OGN-R RP. You can buy an HDMI to VGA adaptor for pence.

It's easier to do the update with as you can then see when the update finishes and the reboot happens as you are not kicked off your remote connection.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: New Stations Added
« on: October 16, 2019, 11:17:42 am »
PWEgerton is up and running.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
« on: October 12, 2019, 08:29:57 pm »
I'm wondering if I can use the Pi's output to run 360 Radar. I've got an old monitor plugged into the HDMI with a HDMI->VGA adaptor.

I'm assuming that for this, the X GUI and a browser will need to be loaded, which I'm hoping I can do via apt-get.

I'm wondering about space and processing power.

Is the SD card re-formatted with a restricted partition size on install? I used a very fast 32Gb card which may have been OTT.

I'm guessing I can look at current loads by just running top?

Or is this a bad idea?


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