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Enabling Bluetooth and Wi-FI?

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Topic: Enabling Bluetooth and Wi-FI?

Posted By: hamilton
Subject: Enabling Bluetooth and Wi-FI?
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2017 at 9:10pm

We have just updated a 540 440 combo to 10.2.

We have been through and double checked all settings per the SIL and then went back into config to re-connect the bluetooth remote, set the Wi-Fi to local and change the SSID / PSK as neither Bluetooth or Wi-Fi appeared to be working.

Neither are options in the user settings like the pilots guide shows and neither option has a green box around it on the software status page on the SYS tab.

Am I missing something?

Replies:

Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2017 at 9:30pm

Have you ever seen WiFi/BT on those units?

If not, there is a simple enable procedure by loading a file from the USB. This is not part of the 10.2 upgrade.

* Orest

Posted By: hamilton
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2017 at 9:33pm

Bluetooth was definitely working before as we had the remote working fine (in it's limited pre 10,2 sense), Wi-Fi i'm not too sure.

I did just see there was a seperate SB for Wifi and Bluetooth activation which i'm struggling to find on the Avidyne website at the moment.

Thanks

Posted By: Tommylewis
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 6:35pm

I was told by tech support that if I did not enter the airplane N number on page 3 of the config pages, those features, wifi and bluetooth, would be disabled. I entered the N number and I have those features. I have used the wifi and bluetooth for the keyboard.

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Tom Lewis
RV7a & RV10
Granbury, TX

Posted By: hamilton
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 7:41pm

Thanks everyone I had some amazing customer service from Michael Clifford at Avidyne and after a little trial and error we are all up and running.

Yes I did see that note in the service bulletin and made sure the rego was set.

I don't think i'm the only one to see this fault but one of only a couple.

I have sent through the logs so hopefully they may be able to see where it went wrong to stop it happneing again.

Love that SVS page!!