Missing voice alerts

[SuperCub]

Having dual Skyviews with one backup battery on the left screen. I boot the left screen with this backup battery for engine start to see oil pressure. Then I switch on avionics - all are now on ship´s power and the second Skyview boots as well.
Every other flight I don´t have audio warnings, they are back when I reboot the system or one screen - it shouldn´t be this way! The screens including the audio are wired together according to the manual, so both screens can drive the audio.
So something isn´t right. I already was told by Dynon support that it depends which screen is driving the alerts which I don´t really understand - the audio should be there any time.
Anyone has the same problem or a solution?

 

[preid]

Have you checked the volume on both screens? right now I only have it coming from 1 screen, It's too much work to add the other, but it always is the first to boot with battery power and always produces alerts.

 

[SuperCub]

Good point - will check the volume on second screen, but would guess it should be the same as the settings are shared.

 

[dlloyd]

Each screen needs to be programmed for each audio alert and volume. Each screen needs to be wired to the audio panel. Only one of my displays was wired to the audio and I sometimes did not get the alerts.

 

[RV6-KPTW]

If you have multiple screens, and only one screen is wired to audio - make sure that unit starts first. I delay the second screen (not wired) start by 20-30 seconds and get audio. Gonna fix that some day.

 

[dynonsupport]

When you're in the volume setting menu, the sound comes out of the screen where you are adjusting the volume. So the first thing is to test this on both of your screens and make sure both actually have the ability to make sound in your headset.

 

[SuperCub]

Today I checked the audio settings on the second screen and it is exactly the same. Both screens can put out the audio when testing. Also as I said the screens are wired together. So probably there is no change - sometimes no audio!

 

[dynonsupport]

Do you have them wired into an input that has a selector or mutes when something else is going on? Lots of intercoms and audio panels have "muting" inputs that are blocked when something like a radio transmission comes in. This could be blocking some alerts.

 

[Wal_Thompson]

I had this problem, once, a few flights back. I thought at the time I might have punched a 'mute' on my ICS by mistake, but couldn't find the fault. I rebooted the Skyview while airborne, and the voice alerts returned. I ignored it at the time believing it to be my error, but this thread reminded me of it.

I have a single 10" Skyview and a GMA240 two place intercom, very simple setup.

 

[dynonsupport]

The GMA240 is far from a simple 2 place intercom. It has all sorts of different inputs, options, and ways to mute things. It's a very full featured audio panel that is made for IFR use.

Do you know what input SkyView is wired to on the GMA240? That will help us tell if that input can be muted in any way.

Do any of you remember what alert you think got missed?

 

[preid]

pins 13/31 on skyview to 31 (alert 1 HI) or 44 (Alert 2 HI) on GMA-240 works. Never had a problem with the connection of what is indeed a very complex scheme of connections to everything.
There is a couple things that would mute the alert- music- if the setting is not enable to mute music for alerts, and there is a way to make a hardware change to the volume of the Alert.

I dont ever recall it say "Autopilot on", "Autopilot off"- just the tones.. be nice for my passengers to hear something than the alert sound that consistently gets a "what was that??"

 

[dynonsupport]

There is no autopilot ON tone or voice in SkyView.

There is no autopilot OFF tone, only voice. If you never hear it, then you likely have it turned off in System Setup->Audio Setup. You can turn individual alerts on/off in there.

If you think you are hearing a tone when you disconnect the AP, we're stumped, since there is no code in the system to do that.

 

[preid]

Okay- figured out the alarm- that is the VP-200 autopilot disconnect alert- I'll look into why I dont hear anything for Autopilot in the setup.
Thank you for setting me straight!