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kearney

Joined: 20 Sep 2008
Posts: 563

Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:47 pm Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

Merry Christmas to all



I hope everyone has a great year building and/or flying!



I do have a boxing day suggestion for those who haven't depleted all their free cash buying gifts for family. My wife Joan especially liked the can of 3M spray adhesive I got her. I plan to borrow it for my foot-well carpets!



Anyway, at KOSH I picked up a MyGoFlight.com IPAD mount. Attached are a couple of pix. It has a single point of adjustment that locks the three joints in one go. I mounted it on my center console but it will work just as easily on the center tunnel. The version I have has a quick disconnect so the arm and IPAD mount can be completely removed from the consol attach point.



I find that offset to the right leaves the controls etc clear and provides very confrtable access to the IPAD with my right hand.



In this configuration, I tried sitting in the co-pilot's set and found that it doesn't interfer with the right side at all.



YMMV



Cheers and have a great New Year



Les

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Albert Gardner

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 455
Location: Yuma, AZ

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:30 am Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

Well, this whole Stratux thing get me going so I bought the Pi and the 2

radios plus cables on Amazon. Put them together, very easy-just plug

together- and then downloaded the software. Got the disk image file for the

micro SD card (stratux-v0.5b2-e6ad9aa830-12212015) from the zip file

download. Used Win32DiskImager to copy it to the SD card then put the SD

card in my Raspberry Pi computer and fired it up.



I was expecting it to be configured as an ADS-B receiver already to receive

broadcasts and connect to my ipad with Foreflight but the monitor connected

to the Raspberry Pi shows a screen that asks for basic configuration

information. Some of the item seem straightforward but don't know what to

answer for others. (Screenshot attached)



Has anyone already gone through the setup? Could use some help at this

point.



Albert Gardner

RV-10 N991RV

Yuma, AZ

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deej(at)deej.net
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:58 am Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

You could do the expand file system to maximize the use of the SD card, but everything here is optional. 



The config for the ads-b is through a web browser but it should already be setup with some usable defaults "out of the box".



-Dj

rv10flyer(at)live.com
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:10 am Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

Albert

I am using stratux on iflightplanner and fltplan.go

In both cases the config was done via choosing ADS-B and picking "clarity" or port 4000 if I did it manually on fltplanGO.

I've done 192.168.10.1 for configs. Never see the screen you attached.

No traffic on fltplanGO but visible on iflightplanner. Stratux works very nicely for weather updates on both.

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		   On Dec 27, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Albert <ibspud(at)roadrunner.com> wrote:

 

 Well, this whole Stratux thing get me going so I bought the Pi and the 2

 radios plus cables on Amazon. Put them together, very easy-just plug

 together- and then downloaded the software. Got the disk image file for the

 micro SD card (stratux-v0.5b2-e6ad9aa830-12212015) from the zip file

 download. Used Win32DiskImager to copy it to the SD card then put the SD

 card in my Raspberry Pi computer and fired it up.

 

 I was expecting it to be configured as an ADS-B receiver already to receive

 broadcasts and connect to my ipad with Foreflight but the monitor connected

 to the Raspberry Pi shows a screen that asks for basic configuration

 information. Some of the item seem straightforward but don't know what to

 answer for others. (Screenshot attached)

 

 Has anyone already gone through the setup? Could use some help at this

 point.

 

 Albert Gardner

 RV-10 N991RV

 Yuma, AZ

 <Raspberry Pi Initial Setup.jpg>

Albert Gardner

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 455
Location: Yuma, AZ

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 11:25 am Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

I should clarify that this display was on a monitor attached directly  to

the Raspberry Pi computer itself not on my desktop computer. Am I to

understand that I can do configuration from my desktop by connecting to the

Pi by the 162.198.10.1 or whatever?

Albert



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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:00 pm Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

Setup wifi to "stratux' on iPad 

Ip to 192.168.10.1 

This will show the connection and towers etc. with r2 you can shut down from here as well

Once you have the stratux as wifi connection I think foreflight will pickup - sorry don't use foreflight so can't tell you were to setup the ads-b but shouldn't be hard to find , maybe "settings "?

FltplanGO had Ads b option on map



[quote] On Dec 27, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Albert <ibspud(at)roadrunner.com> wrote:

 

 

 

 I should clarify that this display was on a monitor attached directly  to

 the Raspberry Pi computer itself not on my desktop computer. Am I to

 understand that I can do configuration from my desktop by connecting to the

 Pi by the 162.198.10.1 or whatever?

 Albert

 

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deej(at)deej.net
Guest

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:53 pm Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

 	  Quote: 	
		   On Dec 27, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Albert <ibspud(at)roadrunner.com> wrote:

 

 

 

 Am I to

 understand that I can do configuration from my desktop by connecting to the

 Pi by the 162.198.10.1 or whatever?

 


	


Join your iPad to the Stratux wireless network, then use the web browser on the iPad to connect to 192.168.10.1 



This will allow you to change the config of the Stratux software, if needed. 



-Dj

Albert Gardner

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 455
Location: Yuma, AZ

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:42 pm Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

This was interesting. While the monitor connected to the Raspberry Pi still

showed the configuration message, 

I joined the Stratux network with my ipad. Then I started foreflight just to

see what it looked like and I had the freeflight message with 0 towers. I

carried the whole setup outside and saw some traffic symbols on the display.

Never picked up any towers but I already expected you couldn't while on the

ground. So I guess you don't have to really do anything after you load the

SD card. Great. Now I need to find out how to attach a GPS unit to my

Stratux box.

Thanks for the help.

Albert

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flying-nut(at)cfl.rr.com
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:23 pm Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

Hi Albert!

There's no reason (or capability, I think) to attach the GPS to the 

Stratux.  It is a 'receive only' box.

Since you're using foreflight, the GPS in your iPAD does all it's ever 

going to do .... tell Foreflight where you are.



I'm using the Stratux to connect to Avare on an Android tablet.  I had 

been able to see traffic right away.

Last week I learned (second hand) that ADS-B seems to be altitude 

dependent for what information you see transmitted from the ADS-B site 

which, for me, is KMLB.  I don't fly in crappy weather so haven't been 

able to see any on my tablet while on the ground ..... even within range 

of the transmitter.  The 'friend of a friend' says he doesn't get 

weather until over 1800'.  I don't have any info to prove/disprove that 

observation, but it does point to a possible reason why I don't see any 

weather displayed while on the ground.

Linn



On 12/27/2015 7:32 PM, Albert wrote:

 	  Quote: 	
		   



 This was interesting. While the monitor connected to the Raspberry Pi still

 showed the configuration message,

 I joined the Stratux network with my ipad. Then I started foreflight just to

 see what it looked like and I had the freeflight message with 0 towers. I

 carried the whole setup outside and saw some traffic symbols on the display.

 Never picked up any towers but I already expected you couldn't while on the

 ground. So I guess you don't have to really do anything after you load the

 SD card. Great. Now I need to find out how to attach a GPS unit to my

 Stratux box.

 Thanks for the help.

 Albert

deej(at)deej.net
Guest

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:23 pm Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

On 12/27/2015 7:32 PM, Albert wrote:

 	  Quote: 	
		   Now I need to find out how to attach a GPS unit to my

 Stratux box.


	


Hi Albert,

	Adding a GPS is very easy if you use the one they recommend.  You can 

simply plug it in with a USB cable if all you want is the GPS and time 

info, otherwise if you can use a soldering iron you can easily hook it 

up to the RPi pins and get a simple AHRS too.



The home page for the project is here:



http://stratux.me/



-Dj



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jmjones2000(at)mindspring
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:30 am Post subject: Merry Christmas - Boxing day suggestion

It looks like you may not have gotten the correct software loaded onto your SD card that is in the Raspberry PI. Take a look at the following links to see if they can help.

[url=https://github.com/ssokol/stratux/wiki/Stratux-Beginner\'s-Guide#options-and-enhancements]https://github.com/ssokol/stratux/wiki/Stratux-Beginner's-Guide#options-and-enhancements[/url]



http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85058&page=1



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		  On Dec 27, 2015, at 7:07 AM, P Reid <rv10flyer(at)live.com (rv10flyer(at)live.com)> wrote:

--> RV10-List message posted by: P Reid <rv10flyer(at)live.com (rv10flyer(at)live.com)>AlbertI am using stratux on iflightplanner and fltplan.goIn both cases the config was done via choosing ADS-B and picking "clarity" or port 4000 if I did it manually on fltplanGO.I've done 192.168.10.1 for configs. Never see the screen you attached.No traffic on fltplanGO but visible on iflightplanner. Stratux works very nicely for weather updates on both. 	  Quote: 	
		  On Dec 27, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Albert <ibspud(at)roadrunner.com (ibspud(at)roadrunner.com)> wrote:Well, this whole Stratux thing get me going so I bought the Pi and the 2radios plus cables on Amazon. Put them together, very easy-just plugtogether- and then downloaded the software. Got the disk image file for themicro SD card (stratux-v0.5b2-e6ad9aa830-12212015) from the zip filedownload. Used Win32DiskImager to copy it to the SD card then put the SDcard in my Raspberry Pi computer and fired it up.I was expecting it to be configured as an ADS-B receiver already to receivebroadcasts and connect to my ipad with Foreflight but the monitor connectedto the Raspberry Pi shows a screen that asks for basic configurationinformation. Some of the item seem straightforward but don't know what toanswer for others. (Screenshot attached)Has anyone already gone through the setup? Could use some help at thispoint.Albert GardnerRV-10 N991RVYuma, AZ<Raspberry Pi Initial Setup.jpg>

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