Release 10.2.3.1

Interesting, will give that a try this afternoon!

* Orest

Mark me down as a third.  I'm suprised nobody responded to this.

If the unit was pulled from the stack to do the update,  be sure that it is properly reseated.

* Orest

No, nothing changed.  We'll have a look for something unintentional.  If we find anything, we can dial it back down :)

Once tech support told me what 10.2.3.1 broke, in that now you can't have split baud rates on a single serial port on the IFD, I figured it out pretty quickly.  The real clue, at least for me, was that WX and traffic FROM the FDL-978 was still working (at 115.200 baud as before).  The FDL-978 has some nice tools for debugging, the "GPS" command showed no fix from the IFD, and then changing the baud rate to 115,200 IN  from 9600bps on the FDL-978 immediately got me a GPS fix.

Yes, I'm aware Avidyne will restore split baud rates in the next release, so will have to change the FDL978 back. 

And no worries, my AP was working along with me all along.  It's important to note most AP's and many avionics shops are struggling to keep up, so I want to thank Avidyne for working with us owners who are computer savvy and "in the business".  More information is better for us as well, I'd like to start to see errata sheets and change logs with your new releases, it would have saved me and my AP alot of time and less calls to your tech support.

Here is a short video of the FDL-978 at 115,200 in with the GPS command running. This was taken about 30 seconds after I changed the serial in from 9600bps to 115,200 and my error message ont he IFD550 went away.

I wouldn't but I'm not sure that will be an option.  GPS position reports at once a second at 9600bps are not very verbose compared to ADS-B in data.  So I'm not sure we will lose anything and of course Avidyne wants to be compatible.  The FDL-978 is really easy to configure as long as your maintenance serial port was brought out. Terra term and three hits of enter key gets it's attention.  They also are very helpful on their tech support.  If you are at Oshkosh still, they are in the same building as Avidyne, Brad was the one that helped me here and I think he is at the booth

P.S. I added a video to the message above showing the GPS command on the FDL-978. 

Anybody else having issues with setting a designated waypoint in the IFD100 with the latest sw 10.2.3.1 compatible IFD100 update?

While in MAP mode, I have tried selecting the designated waypoint datablock in about every way possible and cannot get it to open the virtual keyboard to enter a designated waypoint. BTW - I have not specifically tested the designated waypoint datablock on my IFD540 with sw 10.2.3.1 yet so I cannot say at this point if exhibits the same non-responsive behavior or not.

 ;-) sorry, couldn't resist.

AviLance wrote: Unfortunately any model of Stratus prior to the Stratus 3 will not work. Prior models use an encrypted in-house protocol as opposed to the now more standard Capstone (GDL-90) protocol that many EFBs are expecting and we support. The Stratus 3 was the first model to support both methods of communication.

So the Stratus 3 will work.

What about the new Foreflight sold Sentry units? Is their data encrypted?

* Orest

AviLance wrote: Yes, the Sentry units use that same encrypted protocol - which is the reason they currently only work with Foreflight. I have talked with some of the engineers at Foreflight/uAvionix to see if they will add the Capstone support with moderate success. Hopefully we will see it supported in the future.

Ok, well, for the moment it is academic, until the next IFD firmware release.

* Orest