External Devices

On this page you can find a list of supported external devices, protocols, connections.

List of supported external sensors & other peripherals

Airwhere

http://airwhere.co.uk

• live tracking device

BarON

http://aero–tech.ru/en/#BARON

• external pressure sensor

Blue Fly Vario

Bluetooth and USB external atmospheric pressure sensor - http://blueflyvario.com

• external pressure sensor

Compass C-Probe

https://www.compass-italy.com/en-us/C-Probe

• external pressure sensor

Digifly AIR-BT (AIR-BT-PITOT)

http://www.digifly.com/en/air/

It requires that the parameter (ADVANCED SETUP  n. 24 BLUT) is set to “ON” (Bluetooth enabled) and that the parameter (ADVANCED SETUP  n. 23 TELE) is set to “FL2” (sending Digifly telemetry data enabled).

• external pressure sensor
• external gps
• external wind from 0.9.4.6
• true airspeed from 0.9.4.6
• netto vario not yet
• glide ratio (ground efficiency) not yet

FlyBeeper mini BT

https://market.flybeeper.com/device/mini-bt

• external pressure sensor
• external 4 buttons

Flying Snake

https://github.com/N00BMmika/Flying_Snake

• external pressure sensor
• implemented with CircuitPython for Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Sense board

FlyNet

http://www.flynet-vario.com/

• external pressure sensor
• external gps

Flytec SensBox

http://flytec.com/SensBox.html

• external pressure sensor

Freevario

http://freevario.org

• external pressure sensor

leGPSBip

http://www.lebipbip.com/legpsbip-solar-vocal-gps-alti-vario/

• external pressure sensor
• external gps

MillenAir V2

http://www.millenair.nl/shop/index.php?route=product/product&path=62&product_id=81

• external pressure sensor

MiniVario-Arduino

https://github.com/IvkoPivko/MiniVario-Arduino/tree/master

DIY vario by Ivaylo Mitev

• external pressure sensor
• bluetooth module

Out of The Blue

http://www.alter-energy.it/variometro.php

• external pressure sensor
• external gps
• LK8EX1 via Bluetooth

Skydrop by Skybean

http://www.skybean.eu/skydrop

• external pressure sensor
• external gps

Skytraxx

https://en.skytraxx.eu/

• Skytraxx 2.1 and 4.0
• external pressure sensor
• external gps
• fanet & flarm

XCRemote

Remote control fastenable to a riser.

https://bitbucket.org/raffiniert/xcremote/wiki/Home

• 8 glove-friendly physical buttons
• very low power consumption

XCTracer, XCTracer II, XCTracer Maxx

https://www.xctracer.com/

• external pressure sensor
• external gps
• external wind from 0.9.4.6, LXWPW

XCTRACK_vario DIY

https://gitlab.com/dvarrel/XCTRACK_vario

• external pressure sensor
• USB connection
• Bluetooth
• Do It Yourself

Supported protocols

These NMEA (like) sentences are supported:

• $XCTOD
• $XCTRC
• $LK8EX1
• $LXWP0
• $GPRMC
• $GNRMC
• $GPGGA
• $GNGGA
• $PCPROBE
• PRSD
• _PRS
• PRS
• _BAT
• BAT
• $VARIO
• $PFLAA
• $PDGFTL1
• $PTAS1
• $PFLAU
• $PFLAC
• $PLKAS

Supported BLE services & characteristics

• Environmental Sensing Service (0000181a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
  • Pressure characteristic (00002a6d-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
• Battery Service (0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
  • Battery level char. (00002a19-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
• FBMini Airspeed Service (00001819-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
  • TAS char. (234337bf-f931-4d2d-a13c-07e2f06a0249)
• Nordic UART Service (6e400001-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e)
  • TX char (6e400003-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e)
• LeBip service + char.
• Skydrop (1&2) service + char.
• RN4781 service + char.
• XCTracer service + char.

XCTrack discovers services and subscribes for notifications for these characteristics. See a log file (or the log widget) for details about connection happening.

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