New Oudie 2 Condor 2 cable connection

Hi Nick,

The challenge with the Oudie and similar devices is that they are using a mini-USB port to do double-duty. It connects to a PC as a USB slave, and it has TTL Serial connections for communicating with soaring variometers and Condor on a PC. The cable has 5 wires. They are very well defined for USB communications, but since TTL serial data communications are non-standard, the connections are not set in stone. Old and new Oudie 2 units and Oudie IGC units will all connect to a PC using a standard USB to mini-USB cable for flight log downloads, waypoint uploads, updates, etc. But for TTL serial data, something changed in the hardware due to lack of standardization. It isn't Naviter's fault, they buy the Oudie hardware. The change is a bummer, but well defined.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 10:01:34 AM UTC-6, Nick Hill wrote:
On 09/02/2020 00:00, Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Kevin,

Yes. The Oudie 2 hardware must match the cables used. The mini-USB connector pins changed in the most recent Oudies. If you are using the Oudie power/data cable that was purchased with the Oudie, then you're all set.


Can you provide a bit more info on the change in mini-USB as I thought
this was pretty fixed.

I assume the USB part works just the same so a standard USB cable to a
PC would work with the updater or browsing the Oude as data disk but the
serial port emulation inside the Oudie has changed hence the need for a
new cable to match?

I can see this causing lots of confusion in the future as something
labled as an Oudie power/data cable is no longer just a Oudie power/data
cable


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Nick Hill