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  • Re: Updating FlarmView

    From Bob Faris@21:1/5 to Dan Marotta on Tue Apr 26 09:53:10 2022
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 10:31:43 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Hi All,

    I am trying to update my PowerFlarm Portable, ClearNav II computer, and FlarmView. The PF and CN are pretty straight forward but the
    FlarmView... Not so much.

    Referring to the FlarmView manual, it instructs to download the FlarmNet file, data.fln and to convert that file to flarm.flx using the flarmnet parser. There's nothing in the manual to tell me what that is.

    In the past I located that inforation. It's a Windows program called fln2flx.exe and after a long search a couple of years ago, I located
    that file. Now, trying to run that program on my wife's Windows 8.1
    computer, it fails with an error: Data at the root level is invalid.
    Line1, position 1. It creates the flarm.flx file with size = 0.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    --
    Dan
    5J
    You don't need to use an external program to convert the fln file to the flx file. Download the flarmnet fln file to the micro sd card and use the Files menu in the Flarmview to convert to the flx file.
    Bob Faris

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  • From Dan Marotta@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 26 10:31:39 2022
    Hi All,

    I am trying to update my PowerFlarm Portable, ClearNav II computer, and FlarmView. The PF and CN are pretty straight forward but the
    FlarmView... Not so much.

    Referring to the FlarmView manual, it instructs to download the FlarmNet
    file, data.fln and to convert that file to flarm.flx using the flarmnet
    parser. There's nothing in the manual to tell me what that is.

    In the past I located that inforation. It's a Windows program called fln2flx.exe and after a long search a couple of years ago, I located
    that file. Now, trying to run that program on my wife's Windows 8.1
    computer, it fails with an error: Data at the root level is invalid.
    Line1, position 1. It creates the flarm.flx file with size = 0.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    --
    Dan
    5J

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  • From Dan Marotta@21:1/5 to Bob Faris on Tue Apr 26 11:17:20 2022
    Thanks. I'll have to go to the airport to see if that works. I'll also completely read the manual again as I don't recall seeing what you said.

    I may have to wait for the next soaring day and hope the smoke has
    dissipated a bit.

    Dan
    5J

    On 4/26/22 10:53, Bob Faris wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 10:31:43 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Hi All,

    I am trying to update my PowerFlarm Portable, ClearNav II computer, and
    FlarmView. The PF and CN are pretty straight forward but the
    FlarmView... Not so much.

    Referring to the FlarmView manual, it instructs to download the FlarmNet
    file, data.fln and to convert that file to flarm.flx using the flarmnet
    parser. There's nothing in the manual to tell me what that is.

    In the past I located that inforation. It's a Windows program called
    fln2flx.exe and after a long search a couple of years ago, I located
    that file. Now, trying to run that program on my wife's Windows 8.1
    computer, it fails with an error: Data at the root level is invalid.
    Line1, position 1. It creates the flarm.flx file with size = 0.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    --
    Dan
    5J
    You don't need to use an external program to convert the fln file to the flx file. Download the flarmnet fln file to the micro sd card and use the Files menu in the Flarmview to convert to the flx file.
    Bob Faris

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  • From kinsell@21:1/5 to Dan Marotta on Tue Apr 26 11:50:14 2022
    The conversion is under the Files section. Those interfaces with a few
    buttons used for 20 different functions are frustrating.


    On 4/26/22 11:17, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Thanks.  I'll have to go to the airport to see if that works.  I'll also completely read the manual again as I don't recall seeing what you said.

    I may have to wait for the next soaring day and hope the smoke has
    dissipated a bit.

    Dan
    5J

    On 4/26/22 10:53, Bob Faris wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 10:31:43 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Hi All,

    I am trying to update my PowerFlarm Portable, ClearNav II computer, and
    FlarmView. The PF and CN are pretty straight forward but the
    FlarmView... Not so much.

    Referring to the FlarmView manual, it instructs to download the FlarmNet >>> file, data.fln and to convert that file to flarm.flx using the flarmnet
    parser. There's nothing in the manual to tell me what that is.

    In the past I located that inforation. It's a Windows program called
    fln2flx.exe and after a long search a couple of years ago, I located
    that file. Now, trying to run that program on my wife's Windows 8.1
    computer, it fails with an error: Data at the root level is invalid.
    Line1, position 1. It creates the flarm.flx file with size = 0.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    --
    Dan
    5J
    You don't need to use an external program to convert the fln file to
    the flx file.  Download the flarmnet fln file to the micro sd card and
    use the Files menu in the Flarmview to convert to the flx file.
    Bob Faris

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  • From Dan Marotta@21:1/5 to kinsell on Tue Apr 26 11:59:16 2022
    Yup, I'm relearning that right now.


    Dan
    5J

    On 4/26/22 11:50, kinsell wrote:
    The conversion is under the Files section.  Those interfaces with a few buttons used for 20 different functions are frustrating.


    On 4/26/22 11:17, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Thanks.  I'll have to go to the airport to see if that works.  I'll
    also completely read the manual again as I don't recall seeing what
    you said.

    I may have to wait for the next soaring day and hope the smoke has
    dissipated a bit.

    Dan
    5J

    On 4/26/22 10:53, Bob Faris wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 10:31:43 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Hi All,

    I am trying to update my PowerFlarm Portable, ClearNav II computer, and >>>> FlarmView. The PF and CN are pretty straight forward but the
    FlarmView... Not so much.

    Referring to the FlarmView manual, it instructs to download the
    FlarmNet
    file, data.fln and to convert that file to flarm.flx using the flarmnet >>>> parser. There's nothing in the manual to tell me what that is.

    In the past I located that inforation. It's a Windows program called
    fln2flx.exe and after a long search a couple of years ago, I located
    that file. Now, trying to run that program on my wife's Windows 8.1
    computer, it fails with an error: Data at the root level is invalid.
    Line1, position 1. It creates the flarm.flx file with size = 0.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    --
    Dan
    5J
    You don't need to use an external program to convert the fln file to
    the flx file.  Download the flarmnet fln file to the micro sd card
    and use the Files menu in the Flarmview to convert to the flx file.
    Bob Faris


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