On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 3:16:45 PM UTC-7, Dan Daly wrote:
On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 5:58:55 PM UTC-4, Andy Blackburn wrote:
On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 11:18:42 AM UTC-7, wrote:
I have had the same problem with FlarmView. Noticeable when many targets are around. e.g. in the start cylinder and then once out on course with fewer targets, it returns to normal behavior. Frustrating as it essentially becomes useless as a display while it is exhibiting this rapid cycling between the splash page and the default start page. My setup is PowerFlarm core- S80 (DB9) and FlarmView (RJ45)- Avier XCSoar (through the S80). No problem with the GPS signal from the core.

Do people with this problem have PCAS alarms on or off? I had a similar problem last year and it seemed to be related to gliders with Flarm and Transponder operating.

BTW, there needs to be a way on Flarmview to tone down the PCAS warnings in thermals. If I'm flying with gliders with operating transponders I have to turn the PCAS off entirely or I spend 100% of my thermalling time turning off the alarms. I've tried different FlarmView settings to no avail so I've been reduced to setting the config on the PowerFLARM to turn PCAS off..

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This is a symptom of improper mode setting (aircraft type) in the FLARMs of the gliders which "alarmed" you - if they are not set as glider in flarmcfg.txt, the warning parameters are much wider (and greatly affects warnings in thermals). We saw a few of these at the Pan-American contest and it took a few days to get everyone configured correctly (just a few days after PF 6.0 firmware came out). Some portables seemed to reset themselves, but that might have been finger trouble.

Dan
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Check the aircraft type is "1" in flarmcfg.txt.

Thanks. I'm pretty sure that's not the case here since I helped set up the other Flarm config myself. It's a bit of a laborious trial and error process of course, so it's hard to be sure.

I remember thinking it ought to be straightforward to suppress Mode-S PCAS warnings for gliders also carrying Flarm, based on ICAO address, but I vaguely remember there is a reason why this can't work...something about Mode-S transponders also replying to other types of interrogations. (Yet another reason why the FAA would probably have done us all a favor if they'd mandated Mode S as part of a transition to ADS-B 1090 ES Out (like Europe) rather than the whole UAT debacle).

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