Makerplane EFIS progress

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Makerplane EFIS progress

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In this video I go over the numerous changes I've made to the Maerkplane pyEFIS and FIX-Gateway code over the last few months. Demonstrated using the actual dash from my Dakota Hawk I'm building. Sorry for the poor audio, my headset seems to have vanished and the busy kitchen is right above my header down here in the basement.
Here is a link detailing how I installed all the software:
github.com/e10...

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@ulbuilder 6 ай бұрын

No flying in this video just some poor audio and me showing the numerous changes I've made to the Makerplane EFIS. If you are not interested in open source avionics, this is not the video for you.

@sawyersdad5292 6 ай бұрын

not interested, because I'll never have it, but interesting to see what can be done.

@sawyersdad5292 6 ай бұрын

It doesn't seem to want to load????

@gabebrown4617 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the GITHUB detail install link. This is all new to me and learning from you work helps. Thank you!

@dan_der_flieger 6 ай бұрын

Also - I'd love to see more about your Mavlink set up (e.g. hardware). Thanks!

@ulbuilder 6 ай бұрын

I have a CubeOrange with a Here 3 GPS. The Cube is connected to both Raspberry PIs, the right and left screen, with individual serial connections. I'm quite impressed with the gyros and compass.

@dan_der_flieger 6 ай бұрын

Hey Eric. John emailed me to let me know about your updates. I'm not sure what else to say but WOW!!! Great work!! Pretty much every improvement I can think of you've already implemented (and many more). I'm also planning to install an Aeromomentum AM13 in my Sonex and originally started looking at MakerPlane as a possible EMS display for the Microsquirt outputs. Great idea to add it directly to the fixgw! I was just planning to add a microcontroller that would read the MS data on one CAN module, translate it to FiX, and retransmit it over a second CAN interface. I would say the only other improvement I could even think of would be to add a game engine that uses USGS elevation data for synthetic vision. I started looking at it, but simply don't have enough time to learn/implement it all. I was able to import the data for the Denver area (I chose a tile with some dramatic relief) and import it as an object into a really basic Panda3D project one day. But that's where I stopped. I hadn't looked at geo-referencing GPS data to the map tile data yet ... Anyway, great work!! Thanks so much for doing this!!

@ulbuilder 6 ай бұрын

I'm just going to use iFly EFB for maps and synthetic vision. No sense reinventing what they have already done very well. That is why I made it possible to run Android inside the EFIS. Also wrote plugin that will get waypoint data from iFly.

@ulbuilder 6 ай бұрын

Oh, since making this video I started working on an interface and plugin for com radio. Planning to get the MGL v16 remote mount radio with integrated intercom. Will communicate to it from fix gateway over CAN. If someone wants to donate me an MGL N16 com radio I'll make interfaces for it too! I think that is the last major component needed to have a complete VFR glass panel.

@dan_der_flieger 6 ай бұрын

@@ulbuilder Oh, OK. Yeah, that definitely makes sense. I've never used iFly before and didn't know it did synthetic vision. That's cool!

@VVV-AVIATION 5 ай бұрын

Thanks bro for your videos, i have question -how can i connect AHRS ttl module (without using stratux), its better do through gpio or can-interface or usb? and what additional stuff i need ? and how its be may programming for connect pyEfis Ответить

@RoelBaardman 4 ай бұрын

Is this the 5 inch Makerplane LCD screen? It appears to be bigger.

@ulbuilder 4 ай бұрын

No, these are two 13.3 inch 1080p portable monitors.

@showlogisticsllc5109 2 ай бұрын

Spent a while digging through the forum and couldn't find answer. I'm probably not searching for the right things. I installed Pyefis on an old touch screen tablet i had and running it only with my stratux. When i disable demo mode in the fix gateway default.yaml file everything seems to work fine with regards to my stratux but my sky and ground are just shades of grey. Any thoughts?

@ulbuilder 2 ай бұрын

I'm on my phone so can't easily look, I wonder if stratux plugin in fix gateway has settings to turn the pitch and roll on or off. The other thought is that the stratux will not output AHRS data on the network if it does not have a good GPS signal. It will display in the stratux web interface, but if the web interface is complaining about no GPS it is not sending out AHRS data on the network and the fix gateway will not receive that data. It will always show gray when data is missing, that's how it alerts the pilot to no or old data.

@showlogisticsllc5109 2 ай бұрын

@@ulbuilder Ithe ahars is working fine it's just dark grey for the ground and light grey for the sky. the virtual VFR doesn't seem to be working either.

@ulbuilder 2 ай бұрын

@showlogisticsllc5109 the fix id's LONG, LAT, HEAD, ALT, GSI, PITCH, ROLL ALAT and TAS must have data that is not flagged old bad or fail for it to display correctly. If you run the fixgateway client you can do "read HEAD" if it is old bad or fail it will tell you. Try that for each one till you find what one is causing the issue. You could also do "write HEAD 0" to set a value. The timeouts on some of these pieces of data is less than 1 second so they will turn old if not updated quickly enough.

@ulbuilder 2 ай бұрын

@showlogisticsllc5109 looks like the stratux plugin only provides HEAD, PITCH, ROLL, ALAT, ALT, VS, IAS. So that would explain why some data is missing and it shows gray.