Chip Sylverne
Final Approach
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Quit with the negative waves, man.
Since my MX20 is starting to get a little hinky, I had a thought. Not sure if it's a good one or not.
Noticed that eBay has an RS232 blutooth transceiver for like $50. Since my GX 50 is Capstone compliant and pre-dates Garmin's proprietary data stream, how difficult would it be to rig up a Flightstream like dealio that would send flight plan data from the GX via Bluetooth to a Nexus 7 running Avare mounted in a panel dock? Would make a nice touch-screen MFD with weather and traffic from ADS-B, for a fraction of the price of a replacement mfd, and I could keep my oldie but still goodie GX 50 usable for a bit longer.
Sound practical? I have no clue as to what goes on under the hood of Avare, except that it's the only open source efb. Would this be a major development project?
Noticed that eBay has an RS232 blutooth transceiver for like $50. Since my GX 50 is Capstone compliant and pre-dates Garmin's proprietary data stream, how difficult would it be to rig up a Flightstream like dealio that would send flight plan data from the GX via Bluetooth to a Nexus 7 running Avare mounted in a panel dock? Would make a nice touch-screen MFD with weather and traffic from ADS-B, for a fraction of the price of a replacement mfd, and I could keep my oldie but still goodie GX 50 usable for a bit longer.
Sound practical? I have no clue as to what goes on under the hood of Avare, except that it's the only open source efb. Would this be a major development project?