Ran out of General Purpose Pins

[erikfranks]

I'm looking for a couple more general purpose pins to use just as contacts, on or off. In the Skyview Installation Manual it states:
"Discrete input connections are currently not supported in SkyView. A future firmware update will enable this functionality."
Any idea when theses will be supported?

I'm not using any of the thermocouple inputs and I tested grounding these or leaving open and the voltages aren't consistent and you can't use these as sensors as far as I can tell. Any way to edit a sensor config file to repurpose the thermocouple inputs on the 37 pin or 25 pin connectors?

 

[dynonsupport]

The thermocouple inputs can not easily be repurposed for use as contacts. There's an unsupported way, which involves hacking at your sensor definition file, that should work. Described in English, you need to add the thermocouple input pins to the list of contact inputs in the sensor file. Then know that those pins only measure millivolts (I think 50 or so, but am not sure off the top of my head), so you need to cut your voltage output from your other devices way down so that they're usable.

The discrete input connections that are on the SkyView displays themselves are more likely to be used as predefined external event triggers than as extra inputs, but that's not set in stone. Enabling them isn't yet in the development pipeline, and so it's hard to say. At some point in the future (also no timeline) we hope to offer support for multiple EMS modules, mainly for multi-engine support, but it would also help out people like yourself that are looking for additional inputs.

 

[erikfranks]

I went into the sensor file and found the CONTACT part of the file and copied the list of Thermocouple inputs from the J-Type list. I'll give it a try this weekend.

sensor={
id=CONTACT
;VERIFIED
function=CONTACT
pins=C37_P4 C37_P6 C37_P7 C37_P8 C37_P9 C37_P10 C37_P11 C37_P12 C37_P20 C37_P21 C37_P22 C37_P23 C37_P31 C25_P13/25 C25_P12/24 C25_P11/23 C25_P10/22 C25_P9/21 C25_P8/20 C25_P7/19 C25_P6/18 C25_P5/17 C25_P4/16 C25_P3/15 C25_P2/14 C37_P27/28 C37_P36/37
name=GEAR
name=CANOPY
name=PHEAT
name=OILLVL
name=CLTLVL
min_val=0
max_val=5
resolution=1
round=.1
is_piecewise=0
low_coeff={
c_x4=0
c_x3=0
c_x2=0
c_x1=1
c_x0=0
}
low_resistance=PULL_UP_10K
low2high_cross=0
high_coeff={
c_x4=0
c_x3=0
c_x2=0
c_x1=0
c_x0=0
}
high_resistance=NONE
high2low_cross=0
}