No LXNav TrafficView Manual???

[John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net]

The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now. But where the heck is the manual?

I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we can "just figure things out". But a new expensive product and no manual available at startup? Really?

One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and there is no need to update them with major software releases.

- "Manual-less" John

[soaringjac]

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 7:41:01 AM UTC-7, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now. But where the heck is the manual?
>
> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we can "just figure things out". But a new expensive product and no manual available at startup? Really?
>
> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and there is no need to update them with major software releases.
>
> - "Manual-less" John

I have noticed that as well with manuals, they either dont exist or are and afterthought and never updated. drives me nuts! Good luck

[Dan Marotta]

Just a shout out to LXNav...

I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at the
post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was unable
to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview there was
a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end and an RJ-11 on
the other, a pretty good start.

At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to a
K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I removed
one cable from the splitter's output and connected the Flarmview,
powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth channel in
the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.

I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.Â* Late
in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a lowercase
"f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the Flarmview
to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable the Flarm
channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable from the
splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I swapped the
cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have to fly it today
and see how it all plays together.

On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now. But where the heck is the manual?
>
> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we can "just figure things out". But a new expensive product and no manual available at startup? Really?
>
> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and there is no need to update them with major software releases.
>
> - "Manual-less" John

--
Dan, 5J

[Dan Marotta]

It played together well.Â* But I didn't have a current flarmnet file so I
downloaded, converted, and installed the file on the SD card which came
with the device.Â* Now the device won't turn on.Â* I tried with a
different SD card and it did turn on.Â* I've brought the SD cards home
and will try to figure out what went wrong.

I'm very happy with the Flarmview and the manual is available on the
LXNav website.Â* There was also a copy of the user manual on the USB
stick included with the device.

On 7/20/2019 9:16 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
> Just a shout out to LXNav...
>
> I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at the
> post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was unable
> to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview there
> was a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end and an
> RJ-11 on the other, a pretty good start.
>
> At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
> splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
> from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to a
> K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I
> removed one cable from the splitter's output and connected the
> Flarmview, powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth
> channel in the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.
>
> I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
> did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.Â*
> Late in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a
> lowercase "f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
> Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
> the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the
> Flarmview to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable the
> Flarm channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable from
> the splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I swapped
> the cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have to fly it
> today and see how it all plays together.
>
> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net
> wrote:
>> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now.Â* But
>> where the heck is the manual?
>>
>> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we can
>> "just figure things out".Â* But a new expensive product and no manual
>> available at startup?Â* Really?
>>
>> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics
>> manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and
>> there is no need to update them withÂ* major software releases.
>>
>> - "Manual-less" John
>

--
Dan, 5J

[Dan Marotta]

So my Flarmview SD card is shot.Â* I recall there were a few folders and
other files on the card as delivered.Â* I have a flarm.flx file which
I've installed on a clean SD card.

Can anyone tell me what else should be on the SD card and where I can
find it?Â* I've found nothing at the lxnav.com website.

On 7/20/2019 7:41 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
> It played together well.Â* But I didn't have a current flarmnet file so
> I downloaded, converted, and installed the file on the SD card which
> came with the device.Â* Now the device won't turn on.Â* I tried with a
> different SD card and it did turn on.Â* I've brought the SD cards home
> and will try to figure out what went wrong.
>
> I'm very happy with the Flarmview and the manual is available on the
> LXNav website.Â* There was also a copy of the user manual on the USB
> stick included with the device.
>
> On 7/20/2019 9:16 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
>> Just a shout out to LXNav...
>>
>> I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at
>> the post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was
>> unable to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview
>> there was a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end
>> and an RJ-11 on the other, a pretty good start.
>>
>> At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
>> splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
>> from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to
>> a K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I
>> removed one cable from the splitter's output and connected the
>> Flarmview, powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth
>> channel in the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.
>>
>> I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
>> did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.Â*
>> Late in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a
>> lowercase "f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
>> Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
>> the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the
>> Flarmview to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable
>> the Flarm channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable
>> from the splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I
>> swapped the cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have
>> to fly it today and see how it all plays together.
>>
>> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net
>> wrote:
>>> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now.Â* But
>>> where the heck is the manual?
>>>
>>> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we
>>> can "just figure things out".Â* But a new expensive product and no
>>> manual available at startup?Â* Really?
>>>
>>> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics
>>> manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and
>>> there is no need to update them withÂ* major software releases.
>>>
>>> - "Manual-less" John
>>
>

--
Dan, 5J

[[email protected]]

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 7:41:01 AM UTC-7, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now. But where the heck is the manual?
>
> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we can "just figure things out". But a new expensive product and no manual available at startup? Really?
>
> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and there is no need to update them with major software releases.
>
> - "Manual-less" John

Not to pick on LXNav, since other suppliers may be as bad, but the LXNav manuals are very poor: muddled, written in 'odd English', with many products combined into a single manual. They make what is a good product hard to understand.

[Richard Pfiffner[_2_]]

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 7:15:04 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
> So my Flarmview SD card is shot.Â* I recall there were a few folders and
> other files on the card as delivered.Â* I have a flarm.flx file which
> I've installed on a clean SD card.
>
> Can anyone tell me what else should be on the SD card and where I can
> find it?Â* I've found nothing at the lxnav.com website.
>
> On 7/20/2019 7:41 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
> > It played together well.Â* But I didn't have a current flarmnet file so
> > I downloaded, converted, and installed the file on the SD card which
> > came with the device.Â* Now the device won't turn on.Â* I tried with a
> > different SD card and it did turn on.Â* I've brought the SD cards home
> > and will try to figure out what went wrong.
> >
> > I'm very happy with the Flarmview and the manual is available on the
> > LXNav website.Â* There was also a copy of the user manual on the USB
> > stick included with the device.
> >
> > On 7/20/2019 9:16 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
> >> Just a shout out to LXNav...
> >>
> >> I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at
> >> the post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was
> >> unable to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview
> >> there was a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end
> >> and an RJ-11 on the other, a pretty good start.
> >>
> >> At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
> >> splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
> >> from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to
> >> a K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I
> >> removed one cable from the splitter's output and connected the
> >> Flarmview, powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth
> >> channel in the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.
> >>
> >> I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
> >> did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.Â*
> >> Late in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a
> >> lowercase "f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
> >> Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
> >> the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the
> >> Flarmview to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable
> >> the Flarm channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable
> >> from the splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I
> >> swapped the cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have
> >> to fly it today and see how it all plays together.
> >>
> >> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net
> >> wrote:
> >>> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now.Â* But
> >>> where the heck is the manual?
> >>>
> >>> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we
> >>> can "just figure things out".Â* But a new expensive product and no
> >>> manual available at startup?Â* Really?
> >>>
> >>> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics
> >>> manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and
> >>> there is no need to update them withÂ* major software releases.
> >>>
> >>> - "Manual-less" John
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Dan, 5J

That is all you need.

Richard

[Dan Marotta]

Thanks, Richard.

Is it safe to assume that my configuration will be written to the card
or stored in the device?Â* I found that by configuring the device without
a card installed and cycling the power, it reverted to factory
condition.Â* Of course, next time I fly, I'll find out...

On 7/20/2019 10:12 PM, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 7:15:04 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
>> So my Flarmview SD card is shot.Â* I recall there were a few folders and
>> other files on the card as delivered.Â* I have a flarm.flx file which
>> I've installed on a clean SD card.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what else should be on the SD card and where I can
>> find it?Â* I've found nothing at the lxnav.com website.
>>
>> On 7/20/2019 7:41 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
>>> It played together well.Â* But I didn't have a current flarmnet file so
>>> I downloaded, converted, and installed the file on the SD card which
>>> came with the device.Â* Now the device won't turn on.Â* I tried with a
>>> different SD card and it did turn on.Â* I've brought the SD cards home
>>> and will try to figure out what went wrong.
>>>
>>> I'm very happy with the Flarmview and the manual is available on the
>>> LXNav website.Â* There was also a copy of the user manual on the USB
>>> stick included with the device.
>>>
>>> On 7/20/2019 9:16 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
>>>> Just a shout out to LXNav...
>>>>
>>>> I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at
>>>> the post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was
>>>> unable to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview
>>>> there was a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end
>>>> and an RJ-11 on the other, a pretty good start.
>>>>
>>>> At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
>>>> splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
>>>> from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to
>>>> a K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I
>>>> removed one cable from the splitter's output and connected the
>>>> Flarmview, powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth
>>>> channel in the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.
>>>>
>>>> I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
>>>> did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.
>>>> Late in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a
>>>> lowercase "f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
>>>> Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
>>>> the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the
>>>> Flarmview to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable
>>>> the Flarm channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable
>>>> from the splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I
>>>> swapped the cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have
>>>> to fly it today and see how it all plays together.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now.Â* But
>>>>> where the heck is the manual?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we
>>>>> can "just figure things out".Â* But a new expensive product and no
>>>>> manual available at startup?Â* Really?
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics
>>>>> manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and
>>>>> there is no need to update them withÂ* major software releases.
>>>>>
>>>>> - "Manual-less" John
>> --
>> Dan, 5J
> That is all you need.
>
> Richard

--
Dan, 5J

[Richard Pfiffner[_2_]]

On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 8:19:47 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
> Thanks, Richard.
>
> Is it safe to assume that my configuration will be written to the card
> or stored in the device?Â* I found that by configuring the device without
> a card installed and cycling the power, it reverted to factory
> condition.Â* Of course, next time I fly, I'll find out...
>
> On 7/20/2019 10:12 PM, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
> > On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 7:15:04 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
> >> So my Flarmview SD card is shot.Â* I recall there were a few folders and
> >> other files on the card as delivered.Â* I have a flarm.flx file which
> >> I've installed on a clean SD card.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me what else should be on the SD card and where I can
> >> find it?Â* I've found nothing at the lxnav.com website.
> >>
> >> On 7/20/2019 7:41 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
> >>> It played together well.Â* But I didn't have a current flarmnet file so
> >>> I downloaded, converted, and installed the file on the SD card which
> >>> came with the device.Â* Now the device won't turn on.Â* I tried with a
> >>> different SD card and it did turn on.Â* I've brought the SD cards home
> >>> and will try to figure out what went wrong.
> >>>
> >>> I'm very happy with the Flarmview and the manual is available on the
> >>> LXNav website.Â* There was also a copy of the user manual on the USB
> >>> stick included with the device.
> >>>
> >>> On 7/20/2019 9:16 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
> >>>> Just a shout out to LXNav...
> >>>>
> >>>> I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at
> >>>> the post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was
> >>>> unable to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview
> >>>> there was a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end
> >>>> and an RJ-11 on the other, a pretty good start.
> >>>>
> >>>> At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
> >>>> splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
> >>>> from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to
> >>>> a K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I
> >>>> removed one cable from the splitter's output and connected the
> >>>> Flarmview, powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth
> >>>> channel in the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
> >>>> did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.
> >>>> Late in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a
> >>>> lowercase "f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
> >>>> Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
> >>>> the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the
> >>>> Flarmview to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable
> >>>> the Flarm channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable
> >>>> from the splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I
> >>>> swapped the cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have
> >>>> to fly it today and see how it all plays together.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now.Â* But
> >>>>> where the heck is the manual?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we
> >>>>> can "just figure things out".Â* But a new expensive product and no
> >>>>> manual available at startup?Â* Really?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics
> >>>>> manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and
> >>>>> there is no need to update them withÂ* major software releases.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - "Manual-less" John
> >> --
> >> Dan, 5J
> > That is all you need.
> >
> > Richard
>
> --
> Dan, 5J

Dan,

I found that you may have to reset the baud rate on the Flarmview if it is different than the PowerFlarm Cfg file. My FlarmChg.txt was 57600 for the flarmview port, if you put a blank card in the flarmview the baud rate of the flarmview reverts to 19200 which is probably the default of the flarmview.

Richard

[Dan Marotta]

Thanks Richard,

I'm leaving for the airport now and will check the baudrates.Â* If memory
serves I have $PFLAC,S,BAUD1,5 (57,600 baud) in the PowerFlarm portable
and 19,200 baud in the flarmview.Â* I'll see if I can set the higher baud
rate in the flarmview and, if that doesn't work, I'll lower the baud
rate in the PF portable to 19,200 (BAUD1,2).

Dan

On 7/21/2019 10:35 AM, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
> On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 8:19:47 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
>> Thanks, Richard.
>>
>> Is it safe to assume that my configuration will be written to the card
>> or stored in the device?Â* I found that by configuring the device without
>> a card installed and cycling the power, it reverted to factory
>> condition.Â* Of course, next time I fly, I'll find out...
>>
>> On 7/20/2019 10:12 PM, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
>>> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 7:15:04 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
>>>> So my Flarmview SD card is shot.Â* I recall there were a few folders and
>>>> other files on the card as delivered.Â* I have a flarm.flx file which
>>>> I've installed on a clean SD card.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what else should be on the SD card and where I can
>>>> find it?Â* I've found nothing at the lxnav.com website.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/20/2019 7:41 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
>>>>> It played together well.Â* But I didn't have a current flarmnet file so
>>>>> I downloaded, converted, and installed the file on the SD card which
>>>>> came with the device.Â* Now the device won't turn on.Â* I tried with a
>>>>> different SD card and it did turn on.Â* I've brought the SD cards home
>>>>> and will try to figure out what went wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm very happy with the Flarmview and the manual is available on the
>>>>> LXNav website.Â* There was also a copy of the user manual on the USB
>>>>> stick included with the device.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/20/2019 9:16 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
>>>>>> Just a shout out to LXNav...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just received a Flarmview yesterday and, before picking it up at
>>>>>> the post office, I sat at home with my cable building tools but was
>>>>>> unable to get a cable to test properly.Â* When I opened the Flarmview
>>>>>> there was a flat cable included with an RJ-45 connector on one end
>>>>>> and an RJ-11 on the other, a pretty good start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the airport, I opened the panel of my Stemme, found the cable
>>>>>> splitter that I'd installed a couple of years ago to split the signal
>>>>>> from my PowerFlarm portable, one leg to my ClearNav and the other to
>>>>>> a K6-BT to send a Bluetooth signal to my wife's Streak/XCSoar.Â* I
>>>>>> removed one cable from the splitter's output and connected the
>>>>>> Flarmview, powered up and...Â* It worked!Â* So I disabled the Bluetooth
>>>>>> channel in the Streak, pulled the glider out and went flying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was so happy seeing a target on the Flarmview before takeoff that I
>>>>>> did not notice that the ClearNav was no longer displaying targets.
>>>>>> Late in the flight I noticed that the ClearNav was not displaying a
>>>>>> lowercase "f", indicating connectivity with the Flarm,
>>>>>> Â*so I thought it might be a setup problem with the Flarmview blocking
>>>>>> the ClearNav.Â* Back at the hangar, I changed the setup on the
>>>>>> Flarmview to make it a slave peripheral.Â* Then I thought to enable
>>>>>> the Flarm channel on the Streak.Â* Yup, I'd removed the wrong cable
>>>>>> from the splitter.Â* The Streak was displaying Flarm traffic. So I
>>>>>> swapped the cables and the "f" popped up on the ClearNav.Â* I'll have
>>>>>> to fly it today and see how it all plays together.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> The new LXNav TrafficView has been available for a while now.Â* But
>>>>>>> where the heck is the manual?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know, I know, it is similar enough to the older FlarmView so we
>>>>>>> can "just figure things out".Â* But a new expensive product and no
>>>>>>> manual available at startup?Â* Really?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One thing we have all noticed is that glider specific avionics
>>>>>>> manufacturers seem to think that manuals are an afterthought and
>>>>>>> there is no need to update them withÂ* major software releases.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - "Manual-less" John
>>>> --
>>>> Dan, 5J
>>> That is all you need.
>>>
>>> Richard
>> --
>> Dan, 5J
> Dan,
>
> I found that you may have to reset the baud rate on the Flarmview if it is different than the PowerFlarm Cfg file. My FlarmChg.txt was 57600 for the flarmview port, if you put a blank card in the flarmview the baud rate of the flarmview reverts to 19200 which is probably the default of the flarmview.
>
> Richard
>

--
Dan, 5J

[[email protected]]

Respectfully Dan, this thread was about the new LXNAV TrafficView. Although serving the same purpose, this new instrument is totally different from the FlarmView, FlarmView 2, and FlarmView 57. Please give more consideration to keeping your posts on topic and not hijacking a thread.

Ongoing at the same time is a R.A.S. thread "Flarmview versus Flarmview 57".. Your comments are better suited there and not in the TrafficView thread.

[Dan Marotta]

Sorry Ben,

I just saw LXNav and "...view".Â* I'll look closer next time.

Dan

On 7/21/2019 12:01 PM, wrote:
> Respectfully Dan, this thread was about the new LXNAV TrafficView. Although serving the same purpose, this new instrument is totally different from the FlarmView, FlarmView 2, and FlarmView 57. Please give more consideration to keeping your posts on topic and not hijacking a thread.
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> Ongoing at the same time is a R.A.S. thread "Flarmview versus Flarmview 57". Your comments are better suited there and not in the TrafficView thread.

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Dan, 5J

[John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net]

I am helping at the SSA booth at the EAA Oshkosh event this week. Just at closing today I was introduced to an employee of LXNav. So, jumping at the golden opportunity and with a gleam in my eye of an inside track, I asked about the lack of the TrafficView manual. He just smiled and shrugged. While I like LXNav products this lack of emphasis on manuals is disheartening.. Heck I was a development engineer once (Motorola) and we all hated writing manuals but also came to realize that THEY ARE IMPORTANT!

[Richard Pfiffner[_2_]]

On Monday, July 22, 2019 at 4:54:45 PM UTC-7, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
> I am helping at the SSA booth at the EAA Oshkosh event this week. Just at closing today I was introduced to an employee of LXNav. So, jumping at the golden opportunity and with a gleam in my eye of an inside track, I asked about the lack of the TrafficView manual. He just smiled and shrugged. While I like LXNav products this lack of emphasis on manuals is disheartening. Heck I was a development engineer once (Motorola) and we all hated writing manuals but also came to realize that THEY ARE IMPORTANT!

Who was there from LXNAV.

Richard