External Devices
On this page you can find a list of supported external devices, protocols, connections.
List of supported external sensors & other peripherals
AIR BOX
- variometer
- Bluetooth LE external pressure sensor
Airwhere
- live tracking device
AltiSAN
Bluetooth external pressure sensors https://www.sintak.org/altisan-vyskomery/
- external pressure sensor
BarON
- external pressure sensor
Blue Fly Vario
Bluetooth and USB external atmospheric pressure sensor - http://blueflyvario.com
- external pressure sensor
BRVARIO
Bluetooth LE external pressure sensor - https://www.brvario.com.br
- 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 varionot yetglide 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
- external pressure sensor
- external gps
Flytec SensBox
http://flytec.com/SensBox.html
- external pressure sensor
Freevario
- 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
- external pressure sensor
- external gps
Skytraxx
- Skytraxx 2.1 and 4.0
- external pressure sensor
- external gps
- fanet & flarm
Syride Nav XL
https://www.syride.com/en/instruments/
- external pressure sensor
- external gps
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
- external pressure sensor
- external gps
- external wind from 0.9.4.6, LXWPW
XCTracer Remote Control
https://www.xctracer.com/en/xc-tracer-remote-control
- remote button attachable to a riser
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$PCPROBEPRSD_PRSPRS_BATBAT$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)
- Pressure characteristic (
- Battery Service (
0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)- Battery level char. (
00002a19-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
- Battery level char. (
- FBMini Airspeed Service (
00001819-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)- TAS char. (
234337bf-f931-4d2d-a13c-07e2f06a0249)
- TAS char. (
- Nordic UART Service (
6e400001-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e)- TX char (
6e400003-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e)
- TX char (
- 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.