Skyview and Uavionix interface

[8181C]

Has anyone installed and interfaced a uavionix AV30 to the skyview RS232? If yes, does the RS232 format on the skyview work with the AV30? If so what format have you used?

 

[ssbn608]

I have not... so I don't know how pertinent this will be since my experience is with a UAvionix UAT, and not this AV30 gauge... but I will say that at least SOME Dynon stuff talks to at least SOME UAvionixs equipment.

I have installed a UAvionix Echo UAT, and and connected it to my SkyView system to get GPS data to the UAT. In a manner of speaking. The person who owned the aircraft before me, instead of installing the Dynon (Trig) remote transponder (which would have made ADS-B out easy to do) instead installed a Garmin GTX-327.

At first I tried connecting the UAT to SkyView Serial Port 4, thinking the GPS information from my SV-GPS-2020 connected to SkyView Serial port5 would just be passed on. And position data was. What was NOT passed on was some of the other information that the FAA is looking for, I think dealing with the quality of the signal... I kept getting performance reports which showed 100 percent failures of the NIC and SDA ...

So finally Kurt (technical support at UAvionix) told me to connect the UAT directly to the GPS (i.e., in parallel to Serial port 5 of the Skyview system, so that the signal to the UAT completely bypassed the Skyview display interface. And... I got perfect ADS-B out Performance Reports.

I had the UAT set to communicate with the SV-GPS-2020 (connected to the COM 2 port of the UAT) using

Com 2 Rate: 115200
Com 2 Input Protocol- NMEA

I only say all this for three reasons:

First ,It MIGHT be the answer you were seeking (however unlikely);

Second, to let you know that Kurt at UAvionix support is a very responsive and tenacious support person, working with me all of July and half of August (my schedule... couldn't do that many test flights) until we got it all right. He is, however, NOT an expert on Dynon equipment...though he did take it upon himself to read the SkyView installation manual to help me out (how's that for customer service???); but in the end, together, we got it working; and

Third, note that I wasn't able to pass the signal through the SkyView "display" connections. Nor am I able to feed a signal (even via wifi, apparently) from the UAT to the SkyView system to allow display of traffic information on the SkyView display. So... I don't know how well this AV30 will be able to communicate with SkyView.

Good luck. Hopefully, if the setting I gave you don't work, someone from Dynon Avionics support will be as supportive, and tenacious as Kurt at UAvionics, and give you EXACTLY what you need in this thread. Or maybe Kurt knows. Tell him I said "Hi".

 

[sunfish]

SSBN, I thought of a setup that might allow you to pass traffic, but it’s messy on two levels.

Skyview apparently accepts gdl-30(?) data from traffic devices through a serial port. It should be possible to connect a stand alone wifi to serial data converter to SV and feed the wifi data in that way.

However this is potentially a messy and unreliable solution in terms of extra wires and dodgy cheap perhaps foreign hardware.

 

[madb1rd]

The Echo Avionics Install Manual specifically states that the Skyview won't display TIS or FIS data... much the the chagrin of those who might want a reasonable upgrade pathway.

 

[Rhino]

Not sure where you got that info, but Skyview does display FIS and TIS data. It doesn't display every single thing available in the data stream, such as NOTAM-Ds for example, but it does display weather (FIS) and traffic (TIS), among other things.

 

[GaryRay]

The uAvionics Echo UAT is not compatible, as its output is GDL-90. Dynon Skyview does not accept this format at this time. Therefore,
I can only get weather and traffic on my much less expensive laptop and Android phone using the Avare flight app and WiFi.