Oudie N and FLARM

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I was helping a friend connect his Oudie N IGC to a SoftRF ("fauxlarm") device via Bluetooth LE.  (Connection to a FLARM fusion, or an older FLARM with a BT dongle, would presumably be similar.)

Connection was easy enough.  (Turn on BT in the Android settings but do not "pair" there.)  But trying to ensure it is working, and to see traffic on the map, was confusing.  The Oudie said it was "conencted", but we didn't find a way to actually view the NMEA?

The Oudie settings, in the "radar" area, have a switch to enable "flarm & fanet+" module, although AFAIK this Oudie does not have that module.  (No antenna "bump" on it.)  If the phantom module is not enabled, the rest of that settings area gets grayed out?!  If enabled, the "list targets" button did list our test target, another SoftRF device.  (This is on the ground.)    But how do we know whether this is via the external SoftRF device, or via the (phantom?) internal FLARM, or via OGN?

The same area in the settings also has a switch to turn on FLARM transmissions.  With no indication that that, too, is a phantom?   Then we turned off the external SoftRF device, to see if the Oudie will indeed stop showing that target.  It did stop, but not right away, took a minute?

In any case, we never saw the target on the map.  Does that require either device to be flying?  Or is it because they were very close together?