FLARM in the USA question

On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:05:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
So.....
Classic Flarm units are not permitted in the USA?
Therefore, all of our discussions in the USA should be limited to PowerFlarm?

Where have you you been Guy? :-) All our discussion in the USA *has* been about PowerFLARM.

A large part of the focus on getting PowerFLARM into the USA was because the legacy FLARM was not FCC approved. That the product could also offer some ADS-B compatibility was another reason to want to go that way (with the USA ahead of the rest of the world on ADS-B adoption).

Now as pointed out here it seems like other vendors are working to get FCC approval for their FLARM products in the USA, so it will get a little more confusing how we talk about different FLARM products. But nobody is going to go back in time and invest $$$ and effort to get old legacy FLARM products FCC approved for use in the USA.

Hi Darryl,
I was responding primarily to this thread.
However, the term Flarm seems to be used generically when there are two distinctly different systems.
BTW, I spent all day updating my FLARM and other software systems. Seems that using a Mac to download files and install them on memory cards introduces bugs. When I used a Windows machine to do these tasks all the upgrades worked perfectly.
So much for Macs being the SUPERIOR machines!

On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:44:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Hi Darryl,
I was responding primarily to this thread.
However, the term Flarm seems to be used generically when there are two distinctly different systems.
BTW, I spent all day updating my FLARM and other software systems. Seems that using a Mac to download files and install them on memory cards introduces bugs. When I used a Windows machine to do these tasks all the upgrades worked perfectly.
So much for Macs being the SUPERIOR machines!

I'm trying to avoid confusion by talking about Legacy FLARM and PowerFLARM.... "FLARM" is a family of products including from OEM licenses, an underlying technology and radio protocol, and the company. So it's going to be confusing unless people are careful what the are referring to. This whole thread stated with a confused question because of confusion about these names. And again, all FLARM (the company and OEM) products, at least those sold/supported within any geography, are *fully* compatible.

On your update issue. You could have asked me I spent part of last weekend helping folks do PowerFLARM firmware updates :-) That is a know issue, discussed in r.a.s. in the past, caused by the somewhat hidden ._* files that Macs put on FAT32 filesystems to emulate their legacy filesystem file "resource forks". FLARM really should fix this so it does not happen.

Hope to see you flying this weekend.