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Technical Support / FX fixed install - temperature and WiFi

« Last Post by marioair on August 22, 2025, 08:49:30 pm »

We’re thinking of permanently installing an FX in a PA 32.
Looking at installing the external aerials on the underside of the aircraft behind the nose gear. Does that sound reasonable?

For the FX unit itself, we’re thinking of putting that in the front luggage bay

Couple of questions on that.
1) how sensitive is a unit to heat? It does get quite warm in the front luggage bay.
2) how about Wi-Fi? Signal strength? We can have a play with this before we commit but I understand there may be a way to boost Wi-Fi strength?

Finally, for the GPS mouse sounds like just leaving it on the coming is the best option?

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Technical Support / Re: iGrid Dongle - working or not?

« Last Post by exfirepro on August 21, 2025, 09:57:13 am »

OK Chris,

Thanks for getting back to me. Please let me know how you get on.

Any probs, screenshots will help.

Regards

Peter

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Technical Support / Re: iGrid Dongle - working or not?

« Last Post by Altomar718 on August 16, 2025, 08:16:16 am »

Peter - Thank for the reply - sorry for the delay as I ha not been to the airfield but think it's sorted. I didn't realise the PAW and the Hotspot show up on the Network page and I had named them similarly, so in effect, had two ! - I deleted both and renamed and configured it all again and hopefully, now I know which is which, I hope it will work but still have to try it connection the the mobile network - Thanks 

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Technical Support / Re: No Igrid connection - Resolved

« Last Post by exfirepro on August 14, 2025, 12:05:11 pm »

Hi Again Judd,

Thanks for the update. Good to know it is now working as intended (and hopefully some clarification for those others reading this).

i will update the thread title to indicate this has now been resolved.

Best Regards

Peter
(Moderator)

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Technical Support / Re: FX needs reconnecting to WiFi data source on each power up

« Last Post by dperalta on August 13, 2025, 09:54:17 pm »

Thanks, thought so but problem is we have FX and the 4G dongle powered by the same USB power adapter behind the panel. Means we can’t delay FX power up to after the 4G power up, unless we modify the panel with a dedicated circuit breaker and another USB power adapter. Obviously not ideal.  What is the recommended setup for giving FX a mobile data connection if not through a dongle?

If FX could either delay the interval between the 3 retries, increase the no. of retries to cover first 60 seconds after boot up, I think that should cater for the latency in all these mobile data dongles.

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Technical Support / Re: FX needs reconnecting to WiFi data source on each power up

« Last Post by PaulSS on August 13, 2025, 06:40:56 pm »

This is what I have found I need to do. It seems to me it's a bit like having the hotspot page open on the iPhone before turning on the FX. I start my FX after the 4G dongle has had a little while to do its thing and I find it will connect automatically.

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Technical Support / Re: No Igrid connection

« Last Post by exfirepro on August 13, 2025, 03:49:17 pm »

Posted prior to Judd's Update above ^^^^

Hi again Judd,

Not trying to be 'smart', but If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend having a good read at the full FX instructions, available via this link...

https://www.pilotaware.com/kb/fx/getting-started

I was reading them again myself last night and - despite extensive involvement in FX testing for a considerable period of time prior to its release - I learned (or was reminded of) several important points by doing so. Hence my recommendation.

Please keep us posted as to what you find when you get back to your aircraft.

Best Regards

Peter

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Technical Support / Re: No Igrid connection

« Last Post by Judd hadley on August 13, 2025, 03:14:09 pm »

Yes ive had the new license key and updated, its licensed to 02 august 2026.

UPDATE, @ 15.35 this afternoon Igrid has connected through Ipad cellular, wifi and hotspot, so i will leave everything switched on for a couple of hours and see how it goes.

Judd
 

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Technical Support / Re: FX needs reconnecting to WiFi data source on each power up

« Last Post by Admin on August 13, 2025, 08:16:57 am »

Thanks for getting back to me. It’s a usb data-only 4G dongle with its own SIM card. Pic attached. It’s powered by a dedicated usb cable and not by the FX unit. I think it takes a few seconds longer to fully boot up than the FX unit so potentially its SSID is not visible to FX when FX powers up. However FX does not appear to keep scanning for known SSID’s and automatically connect if a previously registered one appears.

You are correct, the FX does not continually scan, there is a very good technical reason for this to do with performance.
Once powered up it will perform 3 scans, then it will revert to a manual connection mode.

Can I ask you to try the following sequence

1. power up the 4g dongle
2. confirm you can see the 4g dongle ssid from a device - eg iphone, ipad
3. power up FX

Does the FX now connect to the 4G device ?

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Technical Support / Re: No Igrid connection

« Last Post by Admin on August 13, 2025, 08:10:15 am »

Hi Judd, can you confirm your device is licensed ?
it looks like it expired 2025-08-02