Weather

[marchudson]

Dynon, do you guys have any idea or are you working on weather for the Skyview system? I have rented a portable XM weather solution for the short term but would like something more permanent. Traffic on the Skyview is great, as is terrain. I can't justify doing long cross country flights without weather in the cockpit.

Thanks for the hard work.
Marc

 

[dynonsupport]

It's one of the next things up up on our list, very possibly in the release after 3.2 (which is due in September). No there isn't a date projection yet, but it will be on the sooner side.

 

[skysailor]

Getting the weather through a tie in to ADSB (at least in the US) would be the direction I hope you are headed. We already paid for this with our tax dollars and it would be nice not to have to find a way to fund yet another subscription.

 

[dynonsupport]

We do intend to support ADS-B weather. We aren't currently planning on producing the hardware ourselves, but there are a bunch of companies working on low cost devices that should hit the market soon.

 

[mikehoover]

It's one of the next things up up on our list, very possibly in the release after 3.2 (which is due in September). No there isn't a date projection yet, but it will be on the sooner side.

Will there be an antenna to install for weather functionality?

 

[dynonsupport]

There will be additional hardware/antennae needed. There is no wx receiver, either XM or ADS-B, built in to SkyView today.

 

[vasper]

I'm using the SkyRadar ADS-B receiver now with an iPad and it is simply wonderful. During an 800 mile flight yesterday, I could easily pull up the weather (METAR and TAF) for any reporting airport on the display and I could see the live NexRad weather along the route. All wirelessly to my iPad and no subscription is required. Bottom line: I'm a big fan of ADS-B and I hope Dynon can use the SkyRadar receiver, but if they don't, this solution works great.

 

[JTD]

are you planing on supporting WX-Works XM recievers.

 

[dynonsupport]

Very likely. Almost definitely, in fact, but it's not set in stone just yet.

 

[JTD]

My understanding is that the base unit of the WX-WORX XM reciever are all the same with diferent interface mogules conected ( USB out, serial conection ect ). Which of them have you been working with?

 

[dynonsupport]

We haven't, yet. As previously stated, weather is one of the next things up on our list to work on on both the software and device integration side.

 

[legacy]

Any chance WSI weather will also work.  I currently have a system that uses WSI and would also like to display weather on my Dynon.

Mike

 

[dynonsupport]

Hard to say. I can't say many people ask about WSI, so that lowers the chances of supporting it, but we've yet to sit down and really look at the wx landscape and make the device/protocol support decisions.

 

[cmarbach]

Take a look at how the Garmin 496 does it with a USB device that seems to be the XM radio receiver and antenna all in one. Connect the mini USB connector, throw the receiver/antenna on the dash and with a subscription you get XMweather on the 496 (Nexrad, metars etc.).

 

[dynonsupport]

The Garmin device is not a USB device, it's a proprietary connection that just shares the USB connector. You'll note that the connector on the Garmin is a USB slave port so for that to work on USB, the antenna would need to be a USB master.

Also, Garmin is one of the few (possibly only) manufacturer in the world that XM allows to build their own receivers. We'll have to buy one when we support XM from one of the companies that integrates parts from XM.

 

[cmarbach]

I'm glad your looking at this stuff. I'm confident that your solution will be the best value around. Weather adds a lot of functionality to cross country flying.