SkyEcho Or SkyDemon Device GPS ?

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SkyEcho Or SkyDemon Device GPS ?

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AerialRob	AerialRob posted 11/26/2020 10:24:08 PM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 15, Visits: 7	I haven’t tried this but wondering if it’s possible to use device GPS and still receive SkyEcho Traffic Source. Suffered SkyEcho disconnect on previous flight so wishing to achieve setup that maintains SkyDemon. Using iPhone 6 and SkyEcho with most recent updates and no SIM fitted in iPhone.
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Tony N	Tony N posted 11/27/2020 6:35:15 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 348, Visits: 2.5K	+x AerialRob - 11/26/2020 10:24:08 PM I haven’t tried this but wondering if it’s possible to use device GPS and still receive SkyEcho Traffic Source.Suffered SkyEcho disconnect on previous flight so wishing to achieve setup that maintains SkyDemon.Using iPhone 6 and SkyEcho with most recent updates and no SIM fitted in iPhone. I don't think so as SD needs your altitude from your SE2 as referenced to 1013.2 mb. When you say "disconnect" do you mean the WIFI connection dropped or you lost GPS lock? I have never had the WIFI drop lock in my 4 hrs of flight testing but did see the SE2 GPS drop lock for a few seconds when turning in the circuit. I got the SD warning message but was only for about 5 seconds.
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AerialRob	AerialRob posted 11/27/2020 10:04:31 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 15, Visits: 7	Screen message was “Device Offline”with an ascending seconds counter. After 35 seconds I checked iPhone wifi to confirm it was still connected to SkyEcho. Then I tried stopping SkyDemon navigation and restarting “Go Flying with SkyEcho”then closing SkyDemon app and restarting and then restarting “Go Flying with SkyEcho “but each time got same message “waiting for device”. Finally I stopped and restarted SkyEcho and devices connected immediately.
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TimT	TimT posted 11/30/2020 6:41:05 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 89, Visits: 92	+x AerialRob - 11/26/2020 10:24:08 PM I haven’t tried this but wondering if it’s possible to use device GPS and still receive SkyEcho Traffic Source.Suffered SkyEcho disconnect on previous flight so wishing to achieve setup that maintains SkyDemon.Using iPhone 6 and SkyEcho with most recent updates and no SIM fitted in iPhone. No, I understand that SD receives the traffic information (with GPS coordinates) and your own-ship position (with GPS coordinates and GPS altitude) from the same source (here SkyEcho). However, your handheld device will use its inbuilt GPS receiver (or an external GPS receiver linked to it via BlueTooth) as GPS source for any other applications that need GPS coordinates.
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Tony N	Tony N posted 11/30/2020 6:53:15 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 348, Visits: 2.5K	It has been previously reported that, occasionally, the WIFI connection between SE2 and SD drops. I am not sure what causes this and only saw it once happen to me during SE2 testing. I was at home testing SE2 (in RX only mode) and during around 20 hrs of continuous SE2 operation the WIFI connection dropped once. Tony
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Jan von Hassel	J Jan von Hassel posted 4/30/2025 7:48:21 PM Post Details Share Post
J Group: Forum Members Posts: 16, Visits: 0	I encountered several times significantly wrong altitude indications (several hundred up to 2000 ft difference) using SkyEcho II as a GPS source so I would like to ask for a definitive answer: Is there any way to show SkyEcho traffic in SD not chosing SkyEcho as the GPS source? Thanks!
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 5/1/2025 9:07:54 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.3K	No.
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Tony N	Tony N posted 5/1/2025 6:59:16 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 348, Visits: 2.5K	+x Tim Dawson - 5/1/2025 9:07:54 AM No. FYI, I have used my SE2 now for about 2 years and have never experienced an issue like you describe. Are you using your SE2 in a pressurised cabin?
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rv8ch	rv8ch posted 5/3/2025 5:22:56 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 37, Visits: 62	+x Tony N - 5/1/2025 6:59:16 PM +x Tim Dawson - 5/1/2025 9:07:54 AM No. FYI, I have used my SE2 now for about 2 years and have never experienced an issue like you describe. Are you using your SE2 in a pressurised cabin? Not original OP, just ran into a very strange error taking off today from Cannes. I suspect that either my SE2 or my SafeSky decided to go crazy, and switching to internal GPS on the ipad brought things back to normal. This was not a Skydemon issue, but it would be interesting to know if there would be a way to avoid it trying to display bad info. On both images, my actual position was at the far left part of the blue track. The display was jumping back and forth very quickly, so distracting that I had to do the "stop navigating" and the "go flying" again. I tried rebooting the SE2, didn't help. Using the internal GPS worked fine. Later, I stopped the SafeSky and connected Skydemon directly to the SE2 and it worked fine. I didn't take time to troubleshoot further as I was busy flying. No action needed, just thought this was interesting. MC
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Jan von Hassel	J Jan von Hassel posted 5/7/2025 7:20:50 PM Post Details Share Post
J Group: Forum Members Posts: 16, Visits: 0	@Tony N: No pressurisation. Just an ordinary PA28.
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