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Old June 6th 13, 11:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default PowerFLARM USB 3 cables and ConnectMe to PowerFLARM through V7

Morteza,

thanks for your feedback. Can you elaborate on the 'hack'?

PowerFLARM doesn't copy all logs, only the ones that are not
yet on the stick.

Firmware, obstacle DB and licence updates are via USB as well, so you may want to
have a cable anyway (cost: $10). In the past, it has turned out to be less than trivial
to teach a large number of third party developers how to correctly implement
the FLARM RS232 protocols. This is another reason why we are a bit reluctant in that area.

Best
--Gerhard (FLARM dev mgr)



Thanks Paul for the additional information. To be honest the whole model of how PowerFlarm handles logfile copying seems at best to be a hack! As such the next best alternate solution would be to let Oudie handle it. As of right now I don't have the USB port brought to the front of my panel and given how the USB stick copying of log files work, I really would prefer not to do that. I want to have some level of control (like every other device!) on what files get copied and when they get copied rather than plug the USB stick, power cycle and get ALL the logs...