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  • Re: OGN weirdness

    From kinsell@21:1/5 to Colin Barry on Tue Apr 5 12:03:41 2022
    On 4/5/22 11:29, Colin Barry wrote:
    So I determined my "FlarmID" for my iPhone by clicking on target (? 53) at https://glideandseek.com/?aircraft=FD2953&viewport=40.00857,-105.02287,9

    This process is described at http://wiki.glidernet.org/opt-in-opt-out

    I then registered my iPhone at https://ddb.glidernet.org/. My current Flarm core is registerred at this site with competition number Y. I added my iPhone as Y_C (for cell) to differentiate it. It will be interesting to see if this resolves the target
    on glideandseek.com to Y_C.

    Is this a inexpensive way to have your club gliders tracked? If I recall correctly, glideport.aero used to have a cell phone tracking app for iPhone but this seems to be unavailable at the Apple app store.

    IGCDroid is still available for Android devices. I assume its real time tracking only works with glideport.aero?



    Just checked on glideandseek.com and Y_C is now showing

    Glidertracker is still showing only your fake flarm id, and gliderradar
    is still not showing anything. Maybe that will change with time.

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  • From Moshe Braner@21:1/5 to kinsell on Tue Apr 5 22:26:11 2022
    On 4/5/2022 2:03 PM, kinsell wrote:
    On 4/5/22 11:29, Colin Barry wrote:
    Is this a inexpensive way to have your club gliders tracked? If I
    recall correctly, glideport.aero used to have a cell phone tracking
    app for iPhone but this seems to be unavailable at the Apple app store.

    IGCDroid is still available for Android devices.  I assume its real time tracking only works with glideport.aero?

    IGCdroid can now also be configured to send data directly to OGN, and to
    a third system (Skylines ?).

    My experience with it is that cellphone data connection can be lost for
    10-30 minutes at a time, depending on where you are, but it's available
    in enough of the area we fly in to be useful. The feed to Glideport
    catches up when you get a connection (fills in the gap in past data),
    but the OGN data is real-time only.

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