Resolved GNS 530 Power State

[Richard Hulme]

Hi,

 

Its excellent that the 530 volume knob correctly simulates the power down and power up procedure exactly the same as the real world system does. It’s a great feature!

 

would it be possible to somehow report the power state out to say a spare Fsuipc value or an event id? 

 

Great at work on this product already and keep up the good work!

 

regards

 

Richard

[RXP]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your kind words and sorry for the delay. 

The power state and many others are already available via the published L:Var "rxp.gps.discrete_out"

It is mentioned in the User's Manual but not extensively documented there. Do you have any particular need for this?

[Richard Hulme]

I am lucky that I had a small monitor to run the gns530 on in a separate screen that also had a backlight on/off switch. 

 

I managed to to use an arduino and a nice piece of software called Mobiflight to turn the backlight on or off depending on the avionics bus voltage. 

 

I then thought about the power knob on the gns bexel turning the screen off, it’s a bit over the top and I’ll probably never use it but it would be a nice touch!

 

Thanks for getting back to me and if you can point me in the right direction i would be grateful. 

 

Regards

 

Richard

 

 

[RXP]

I'm sorry for the delay.

As a matter of fact, besides deciphering the 'discrete_out' value, there could be a simpler way for you: just use the knob rotation angle variable instead (p15 of the updated User's Manual):

rxp.GNS_530_1.knob_powr! ! number (rotation angle in degrees)

When it reads 0, it is in the off position.

[Richard Hulme]

That’s perfect thank you! A combination of both values used gives the exact result needed. Thank you for your help and guidance. 

 

Regards

 

Richard