LXNAV S100 calibration and firmware question

[vtcyclist]

I have an S100. I want to calibrate it and have removed it from the glider. We’ve put it in the calibration chamber, but are not having any luck getting it to record a flight without the gps recognizing movement. Ideas?

Second. I’ve updated firmware before without issues. This time, the file is on the MicroSD, inserted into the slot, the S100 recognizes the update file and asks for “Update?”. I select with lower knob, and press/click to update. The screen goes dark and then stays off. When I restart the instrument, it asks if I want to update. Ideas?

Thanks.

[Ron Gleason]

Send to Richard at Craggy Aero http://craggyaero.com/

[vtcyclist]

Ron. Thanks for the suggestion. At the top of Craggy’s LXNAV page is the warning not to download LXNAV files with an Apple product. That solves the firmware problem.

[jp]

On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:15:26 PM UTC-7, vtcyclist wrote:
> Ron. Thanks for the suggestion. At the top of Craggy’s LXNAV page is the warning not to download LXNAV files with an Apple product. That solves the firmware problem.

Glad that worked for you. I've downloaded LXNAV files to my Apple MacBookPro many times and they always worked for me. Anyway, whatever works for you is what is important.

[Richard Pfiffner]

Almost every time some one calls about a firmware problem with LXNAV & PowerFlarm it is because they tried to download with an Apple Computer or and Apple computer with a Windows emulator.

Richard
www.craggyaero.com

[Darryl Ramm]

And the new PowerFLARM 6.60 firmware fixes that mac compatibility issue, but the irony is folks are having trouble upgrading to that using a Mac :-)

For now with a Mac you can manually remove the unneeded hidden files that the Mac is putting on the USB stick, they are throwbacks to old Mac compatibility resource fork crap. Deleting the hidden files affects nothing, just makes the FLARM update work. Easiest way is to use the Terminal.app on the Mac to find and remove any ._filename.ext hidden files (e.g. ls ._* to see them). If needed find a kid who knows UNIX/linux to help you, take then for a glider ride in return.

[Dan Marotta]

Is there an Apple/Mac simulator that runs on a PC?

On 5/24/2019 6:19 AM, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

> I am not as versed in electrons as most engineers on this site, so what I am saying is more visceral. I have been a Mac user since 1984, with just a few brief virus, trojan, and ransom filled forays into the PC world. When I got back into gliding after a 15 year hiatus, the instruments and software had developed to the Piont I now needed to access the data. Thought about using the Mac, but then for with little research I purchased a Levono 900 used for $400. Macs are expensive and I didn't want to expose it to the desires and diseases of the other side of the tracks :(

--
Dan, 5J

[Karl Kunz]

On Macs with Sierra or later insert usb stick, show in finder.

CMND + SHIFT + Period this will show the hidden files.

Delete as required.

[kinsell]

Put a Linux like Ubuntu on your PC. Fast, stable, secure, and free.

[Dan Marotta]

I've tried that and liked it, but there are a few things I need to do
that I can't seem to do with Ubuntu.  I'm sure there are ways, but I'm
and old dog and these new tricks take too much time to learn...

I have a cheap little windows laptop that I keep in the hangar and,
trying to improve its performance, I managed to turn it into a door
stop.  I only recovered it by installing Ubuntu first and then
downloading a windows iso file.

--
Dan, 5J

[kinsell]

I buy a Windoze laptop and set it up to dual boot Linux and Windoze. I
spend well under 1% of my time on Windoze doing stuff that has no
practical solution on Linux.

You can also use virtual machines to run both systems on one computer,
but those have some limitations.

Happened to just look at your May 4 flight on a free viewer that runs on
anything with Javascript. Showed an interesting excursion into Mexico
at 160K feet, along with many dozens of GPS altitude dropouts. So much
more info than what you get from the OLC thumbnail graphs.

https://alistairmgreen.github.io/jsigc/

-Dave

[Martin Gregorie]

On Fri, 24 May 2019 11:29:50 -0600, kinsell wrote:

> I buy a Windoze laptop and set it up to dual boot Linux and Windoze. I
> spend well under 1% of my time on Windoze doing stuff that has no
> practical solution on Linux.
>

Same here, though all my PCs/laptops run Fedora Linux with the XFCE
desktop. XFCE has a similar look and feel to the older Windows desktops
everybody knows how to use. The only machine I have that doesn't run
Fedora is a RaspberryPi, which runs Raspbian Linux.

Maybe I've been lucky with the Windows programs I need to run, but they
all run just fine under Linux once Wine is installed. XCSoar, LK8000 and
SeeYou all work well and so do SPINE and TPSelect. SPINE downloads UK
plottable NOTAMS and TPSelect gets UK-wide turnpoints.

Reviewing flight logs? I use GPLIGC, a Perl program, so should run on any
OS. It shows stats and 2D or 3D plots. It can also convert IGC logs into
a KML files, which can be reviewed and 'flown' using Google Earth.

All the programs I've mentioned are free downloads.


--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

[vtcyclist]

This works, but I noticed as I deleted the hidden files, OSX (Sierra) puts back the .trash and .v100 files as you click “send to trash”. Oh well.

[Dan Marotta]

Yep, I saw that excursion on Skylines.aero.  I just hope TSA did not
notice... =-O  That and the FAA.  They might not have liked my climb to
FL1600, though I was well above Class A airspace!  Tell Perlan to give
it up.

--
Dan, 5J

[kinsell]

On 5/24/19 12:26 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

>
> Reviewing flight logs? I use GPLIGC, a Perl program, so should run on any
> OS. It shows stats and 2D or 3D plots. It can also convert IGC logs into
> a KML files, which can be reviewed and 'flown' using Google Earth.
>

Oh yuk. I just installed that on a fairly clean Ubuntu 18.04 system, it
was an endless parade of tracking down missing libraries and
executables. Linus is never going to make it big in the home if
programs like that can't be packaged as simple installs.

[arche...@gmail.com]

Aside from the Mac issue, once that's solved, the lower "knob" is the wrong input. Try the lower of the three "buttons", usually used to "close" screen.

[Martin Gregorie]

That's odd - I've had it for quite a while and installed several versions
as they've appeared and don't remember any dependency issues. I might
well have had to play with Perl's CPAN library manager when I first
installed it: sorry, but I just don't remember whether that was the case,
but since then upgrades have all 'just worked'. One think I have noticed
is that RedHat's 'dnf' package installer seems to be much better than the
Debian 'apt' when it comes to dealing with dependencies - Fedora is my
default distro but I also have a RaspberryPi running Raspbian.

The one niggle I have with GPLIGC is that it doesn't plot the turnpoints
recorded in the flight log. Thats not a huge problem with FAI turn
sectors, but is annoying if you're using variable barrels. Consequently,
the next item, on my 'to do' list is to write an IGC to KML converter
that will either add turnpoints recorded in the log and/or read LK8000/
XCSoar task definitions and plot them using a different colour.

This will be written in Java and will have library dependencies.

[Karl Kunz]

On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 5:09:34 PM UTC-7, vtcyclist wrote:
> This works, but I noticed as I deleted the hidden files, OSX (Sierra) puts back the .trash and .v100 files as you click “send to trash”. Oh well.

Just select empty trash on your "Trash" icon in the dock and all you will have left is an empty trash folder on the usb or sd.