Autopilot + COM freq. over BT to RS232

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Autopilot + COM freq. over BT to RS232

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vikino	v vikino posted 8/29/2023 5:46:42 PM Post Details Share Post
v Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 86	+x Tim Dawson - 8/29/2023 9:38:00 AM If you could assure us that a bunch of pilots had purchased that device and confirmed it was working with their equipment, we could perhaps schedule some development time to investigate sending data to it. I have tested it on Garmin, KRT2, Trig and Funke radios, and Dynon EFIS D100 + AP40 autopilot and works fine. I know about at least 5 pilots who whould appreciate this, when i tell someone that garmin can send freq to radio, they need it in skydemon too
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 8/29/2023 9:38:00 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.3K, Visits: 9.8K	If you could assure us that a bunch of pilots had purchased that device and confirmed it was working with their equipment, we could perhaps schedule some development time to investigate sending data to it.
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vikino	v vikino posted 8/28/2023 7:08:25 PM Post Details Share Post
v Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 86	+x vikino - 8/8/2023 8:27:57 PM Or maybe more user and installation friendly is IRXON BT578 v3 or BT580, they work with Apple and Android well... Btw, IRXON is plug and play, it is set to 9600baud so every radio, at least Garmin, Trig, KRT2, Funke, all those are 9600 by default and accept NMEA0183 messages, as well as autopilot controllers, also mostly by default 9600bps, so IRXON could be the way to make it as compactible device... Im ready to test
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vikino	v vikino posted 8/8/2023 8:27:57 PM Post Details Share Post
v Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 86	Or maybe more user and installation friendly is IRXON BT578 v3 or BT580, they work with Apple and Android well...
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vikino	v vikino posted 8/4/2023 7:57:32 PM Post Details Share Post
v Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 86	Well... lets take this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32967247206.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.58.166c1802dSZoK5 I have tested theese BT-RS232 modules a lot by my self, it works great with Dynon EFIS-D100 + AP74 autopilot and Trig TY96 COM radio, also without any issue with KRT2 COM radio. You just need to "match" baudrate to 4800 or 9600bps, that should do in this case SkyDemon, afterwards it works like a charm, no drop outs with Samsung tablets or my phone Samsung S23 Ultra. And all another BT to RS232 work in the same way like this one, all are in the phone as bluetooth com port, all this seems to me much easier and more stable than 3rd party devices which are connected over wifi. Not talking about that you kill your internal data sim when connected to wifi of "ADAHRS" and so on... This will just work perfectly. Btw., with this, you can go to compleete system, because when you connect to this serial converter also Garrecht TRX1500 (for example), you can use SkyDemon as traffic display - by using GTX TIS protocol over that single BT-RS232 module. In the same way i have it with Garmin AERA 760, but planning a route is terrible on that device, but Garmin has built in RS232... Edited 8/4/2023 8:08:11 PM by vikino
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 7/5/2023 9:13:53 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.3K, Visits: 9.8K	No, not until there is a device with widespread uptake in the community that we can actually develop with. We can't just "support Bluetooth" without a known device to develop and test with.
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Skyboy999	Skyboy999 posted 7/4/2023 12:46:37 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 54, Visits: 238	Ha, suppose I set myself up for that…. So will you schedule development?
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 7/4/2023 8:46:16 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.3K, Visits: 9.8K	It could.
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Skyboy999	Skyboy999 posted 7/4/2023 7:08:16 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 54, Visits: 238	Point taken regards variety of bt/serial hardware but lots of clever users in community to play in this area provided the software talks bt- does it, or could it?
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 6/2/2023 10:07:02 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.3K, Visits: 9.8K	Yes, I agree a Bluetooth connection would make sense, if there was one device that pilots were adopting that we could work with and support. As it is, there seem to be dozens of devices all doing a similar thing.
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