Skyview Forgets VP-X on each power up

[yepppp]

Anyone seen this proble, before??

There is a little glitch where Skyview forgets that the VP-X
and sometimes the SV-XPNDR-262 xpdr) are connected each time I power up. If you go into the SV setup and tell it to scan the network for devices, it all comes back.

Any help would be appreciated

Rgs Chad

 

[dynonsupport]

That sounds like you have a dual display SkyView system and only have the serial devices connected to one display. Behind the scenes, only one display ever talks to the serial devices, but you don't know which one. This allows your system to continue functioning normally in the event of a display failure. This, however, means that you should have all serial devices (both their tx and rx lines) connected to both displays simultaneously, and both displays' SERIAL PORT SETUP configured identically.

When you do the network configuration, SkyView's not actually searching for serial devices like the VP-X and transponder, but by doing that search you happen to be turning that display you trigger the search from into the device that's talking to the serial devices (VP-X and transponder).

If that doesn't quite make sense, give our support team a call at 425-402-0433 and they can give you a better explanation.

 

[preid]

Interestingly with VP-200 I get the red X each time a display boots up. This is with a display already powered up and sending data to the VP- regardless of which display is booting up. Once the display boots up the serial data is sent to the -200 and the red X goes away. I always wondered why it did this when the display was already sending data to the serial device?
Assume I have it setup correctly, as I do, separate tx/rx to each display individually, data works from either screen powered on.
I assume that if the screen is not powered on that it would not be sending out the serial data? or does it? why the red X when either screen is booting up?
Normal?
Thanks!

 

[dynonsupport]

If you don't boot your SkyViews at the same time, losing some serial devices for a moment is expected.

When you turn the second SkyView on, it doesn't know right away about the first one, so it tries to talk to the serial device too. You can't have two devices talking to one serial port, so while this happens the communications are all garbled.

After a few seconds, they get their communications all worked out and get in sync, and then the serial data starts working again.

Some devices like GPS units don't require us to send them data to get data back, so these never drop out. Things like the transponder and VP-X require constant bi-directional communications so they do drop out for a second.