Author Topic: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI  (Read 3235 times)

Richard

Will any of the nav software run directly from the RPI SD card along side Pilotaware? If it will could you not simply add a RPI touchscreen to have a all in one nav and traffic unit. Sorry if it's a silly question. Has any one tried to install nav  software and got it to run on a PI or will not. I would try but don't have a screen.
Richard.
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Ian Melville

Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2016, 07:08:30 pm »
None of the current products will run on Linux, hence cannot be run on the PAW.  If someone did write a Linux mapping software app, then the processor would most likely be overwhelmed. It would also need to be intergrated by Lee.

It could be possible to add a screen that shows targets relative to the PAW, like the Flarm displays, but that is not a mapping application, and not a one unit solution.

Admin

Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2016, 07:33:18 pm »
Well actually xcsoar runs on the kobo which is basically linux

https://forum.xcsoar.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1162&start=10#p5005

Thx
Lee

Richard

Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2016, 09:04:43 pm »
Ok may be something in the future......  Thanks for the replays.
Richard.
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Ian Melville

Re: Will sky demon or other nav software run directly on the RPI
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2016, 09:19:32 pm »
That's true Lee, forgot about that one. Not sure I like it as general Nav software though, a bit too specialist.