On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 4:47:13 AM UTC-7, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 10:31:34 PM UTC-4, JS wrote:
Does the Files app work, or is it just another one lost in
the walled garden like the apps I tried a year ago?

Jim, files apps cannot see the USB drive unless they are registered
for the specific USB DeviceID (a manufacturer-partno code).
So, you need to use the specific app provided with the
special USB stick...

I'm not an iOS nerd, so I don't know the detail...

Anyway, the HooToo gadget works great and is inexpensive.

If any one else has a TESTED SOLUTION it would be great to hear.

See ya, Dave

I may have missed something but it seems like many of these devices will only transfer specific (mostly photo and video) file types. Does anyone have experience using either a WiFI SD card or USB stick to email IGC files?

Snagging the IGC file as an attachment off a USB or SD WiFi device directly from within the iPhone mail app I think requires getting Apple to approve transfer of the IGC file type (or some hack making an IGC file look like a photo or video file). I'd be very happy to be proven wrong about the restrictions or shown a good workaround.

People may be aware of some of the other proposed, in development or deployed solutions to this challenge.

LX Nav offers emailing directly from the LX 90X0 (and some LX 80X0) flight computers either by connecting directly to a WiFi network or via a mobile device set up as a WiFi hotspot. I have it, but have not yet tried to set it up. I believe they are still working on much of the advanced functionality like realtime uploading of weather maps in flight (if you have data service in flight, that is). Pushing my glider to within WiFi range is usually a non-starter and setting up WiFi hotspots can be cumbersome.

Flarm had at one time proposed automatic downloading of your Flarm IGC file upon landing via Flarm ground station - which of course requires setting up a Flarm ground station. I don't know what, if anything, became of that idea. Flarm ground stations are pretty cheap and have a lot better than WiFi range for direct connection of gliders to the Internet for this sort of purpose. Interesting idea for contests. Third-party Flarm ground stations are popping up all over the world, even the US. They would require Flarm support to download full IGC files as opposed to ad-hoc tracking. I'd pay to have that.

Glideport has developed a small tracker device that directly connects to terrestrial data networks to provide tracking data. I don't know whether it could accommodate transmission of IGC files. It would be cool to do real-time scoring estimates while glider are still on course - and have preliminary scores available before each glider even clears the runway.

Then all we need is to have the file be automatically routed to a scoring program (which would need some front-end system to put them in the right place for processing), OLC or a personal email address.

Ah technology. So close, yet so far...

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