Dan,
Yes, this is what I do if the situation warrants it, like wave or significant winds. Since I have the full L-NAV, GPS-NAV setup I can rely on that for final glide type info.
With 6+ of XCSoar, they really improved the easy of manual wind entry so you are correct, it's pretty trivial.
Morgan
On Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:55:25 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
Can't you read the wind from the LNAV/GPSNAV and manually input it into
XCSoar? Not realtime, but pretty close.
"Morgan" wrote in message
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Hi Paul,
I don't have the time to develop the C+ skills to work on getting
communication working between the L-NAV and XCSoar right now so I probably
don't need the comm spec. I do know a pilot that has sent me something of
the sentence structure that the L-NAV uses when communicating with the GPS
Nav. I think that could possibly be used for getting data into XCSoar, but
I haven't seen what all it can support.
I actually am quite happy leaving them disconnected from each other at this
point. It allows me to leave XCSoar at a higher MC value or at least with a
larger polar degradation buffer and experiment with the L-Nav MC value for
more aggressive flying.
I do miss XCSoar having real-time wind info on a long glide though.
Morgan
On Friday, March 15, 2013 7:10:59 PM UTC-7, Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Morgan,
By "L-NAV" do you mean an L-NAV and GPS-NAV combination? The L-NAV does
not
send any data out to soaring flight software. It can send data to a
GPS-NAV. The GPS-NAV then sends the vario and GPS data out to the soaring
flight software.
I have the L-NAV and GPS-NAV dataport specification if you need it.
Best Regards,
Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
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"Morgan" wrote in message
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I have XCSoar running on a Dell Streak 5 and wanted to look into
connecting
to the L-Nav in my glider. I have an IOIO board, but I believe the real
problem is that the L-Nav doesn't use the same protocol as the 302.
XCSoar
essentially doesn't have the right driver for the L-Nav and so far none of
the developers have a need to configure a driver for the L-Nav or the
hardware to actually do it.
I suspect there are many potential users of that configuration, but it
will
take a user with the drive and the skillset to augment the XCSoar code
with
the necessary pieces to support the L-Nav.
Hans has some useful info on his website about connecting GPS data to an
L-Nav.
https://sites.google.com/site/threeuniform/lnav
Morgan
On Monday, March 11, 2013 8:04:08 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
I just had a quick look behind one's panel but it doesn't look like
there's
any place to plug in the serial to Bluetooth device without unplugging
something else. Maybe the GPS control head...
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On Monday, March 11, 2013 12:51:59 AM UTC+1, Dan Marotta wrote:
Can their Androids be interfaced to the LNAV via K6-BT or IOIO?
I have never used any of these products, but usually K6Bt and IOIO
works
just like a cable would.