On Sunday, 4 October 2015 17:21:32 UTC+2, Dan Marotta wrote:
Is the thermal assistant transmitted via the serial port?* Perhaps
XCSoar will be able to use the data for its thermal assistant (at
least if the developers think it's better than the one they
provide).

I hope Max is listening...

I hope ClearNav is listening...

The biggest problem the XCSoar developers face regarding hardware is the lack of support from the instrument manufacturers. Only a few of them publish their serial protocols and the rest either ignore requests for documentation or give you an outright "no". The developers don't have the hardware and/or time to try to reverse engineer every proprietary instrument available so if the manufacturers decide to throw up road blocks then rather stick to supported hardware or you as a customer need to put some pressure on the manufacturer to release the info.

Max has stated on the XCSoar forums that people should steer clear of the following manufacturers if they want their hardware to integrate with XCSoar:
- ClearNav
- LX Navigation
- SDI/Zander
- Westerboer