On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 10:29:30 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 9:21:23 AM UTC-7, ZP wrote:
awesome! how did i miss that? thanks greg. and thanks to lx nav for a great vario. it is amazing how much functionality is packed into that thing.


I'm loving my S80, one big reason is because I don't have fiddle much with my Oudie anymore (I don't like tapping on a screen) other than to change the map scale occasionally. Instead I prefer to use bottons and knobs to change any info I want to change on the BRIGHT screen of the S80.
Anyway, after the most recent firmware upgrade the thermal assist is not working like it used to, pretty much useless now in fact. Anyone else having this issue? I've set the thermal assist to all of the selected inputs and get the same result, bubbles popping up randomly around the circle that don't seem to correspond to anything useful.

I found an issue with the way I was running my S80 and wanted to report. If you are having issues with the thermal assist or it is not switching from SC to Thermal consistently, then check to see if you are sending GPS to it from more that one device. I noticed on the info page that the GPS status was changing about every second and so checked the settings on my Oudie to make sure it wasn't sending it's GPS to the S80. I unchecked one of the settings on the Oudie and that stopped it. As a result I got my Thermal Assist back to working well, and also got rid of thermal/speed command switching problems. I'm still wishing for a good manual for the instrument, it's unfortunate to have to spend an entire soaring season sorting through issues.. That is the only issue I have with it though.