• Oudie tracker function problem

    From Nicholas Kennedy@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 27 07:53:57 2022
    Gents
    I recently download a bunch of flights from my Oudie 2.
    I've got the "Logger Permanently On" box ticked.
    1 Sec intervals.
    The last 4 flights the flight "Route" would not show up on the See You map, but the statistics do show up and are correct.
    Just the start point shows up with the glider sitting there.
    And the flight will not play in See You animation.

    Any ideas why the file does not show my track and animation on the map in See You?
    Is it a Oudie problem or a See You problem?

    Thanks in advance
    Nick
    T

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  • From Martin Gregorie@21:1/5 to Nicholas Kennedy on Sat Aug 27 18:46:45 2022
    On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT), Nicholas Kennedy wrote:

    Gents I recently download a bunch of flights from my Oudie 2.
    I've got the "Logger Permanently On" box ticked.
    1 Sec intervals.
    The last 4 flights the flight "Route" would not show up on the See You
    map, but the statistics do show up and are correct.
    Just the start point shows up with the glider sitting there.
    And the flight will not play in See You animation.

    Any ideas why the file does not show my track and animation on the map
    in See You?

    Two suggestions:

    1) Have you checked whether the memory the Oudie is using to store the log
    file is OK? If its using an SD card for that or for file transfers, and
    you've managed to power off the Oudie or pulled the card out while it
    was being written to, then the card may well be corrupted: SD cards
    and older memory sticks have zero tolerance for that.

    2) Have you looked at the file with a text editor? That's what I usually
    do in this sort of case, to check that the log was recorded correctly.
    An IGC log is just a plaintext file, containing a set of timestamped
    lines, so should be readable without difficulty by a text editor on a
    PC.

    The IGC logfile file format definition can be downloaded from the IGC
    site:

    https://www.fai.org/igc-documents

    Click on 'Flight Recorders' - you want the
    "IGC-approved Flight Recorders - Technical Specification"
    and make sure you download the 1361Kb PDF file, not the 55Kb one.
    The IGC file spec is Appendix A in that file and is pretty well described there.

    A quick scan of the first few 'B' lines after the headers should show you
    if one of these files differs from a known good file. I'd guess that if
    the file looks OK the problem is in your Oudie or its file storage memory, which may be damaged or just very old. If these are OK, then its in the
    viewer.

    Other viewers are GPSVisualiser (converts IGC files into KML or KMZ files
    that Google Earth can display) and SeeYou or GPLIGC.


    --

    Martin | martin at
    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

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  • From Nicholas Kennedy@21:1/5 to Martin Gregorie on Mon Aug 29 06:40:37 2022
    On Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 12:47:02 PM UTC-6, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT), Nicholas Kennedy wrote:

    Gents I recently download a bunch of flights from my Oudie 2.
    I've got the "Logger Permanently On" box ticked.
    1 Sec intervals.
    The last 4 flights the flight "Route" would not show up on the See You
    map, but the statistics do show up and are correct.
    Just the start point shows up with the glider sitting there.
    And the flight will not play in See You animation.

    Any ideas why the file does not show my track and animation on the map
    in See You?

    Two suggestions:

    1) Have you checked whether the memory the Oudie is using to store the log file is OK? If its using an SD card for that or for file transfers, and you've managed to power off the Oudie or pulled the card out while it
    was being written to, then the card may well be corrupted: SD cards
    and older memory sticks have zero tolerance for that.

    2) Have you looked at the file with a text editor? That's what I usually
    do in this sort of case, to check that the log was recorded correctly.
    An IGC log is just a plaintext file, containing a set of timestamped
    lines, so should be readable without difficulty by a text editor on a
    PC.

    The IGC logfile file format definition can be downloaded from the IGC
    site:

    https://www.fai.org/igc-documents

    Click on 'Flight Recorders' - you want the
    "IGC-approved Flight Recorders - Technical Specification"
    and make sure you download the 1361Kb PDF file, not the 55Kb one.
    The IGC file spec is Appendix A in that file and is pretty well described there.

    A quick scan of the first few 'B' lines after the headers should show you
    if one of these files differs from a known good file. I'd guess that if
    the file looks OK the problem is in your Oudie or its file storage memory, which may be damaged or just very old. If these are OK, then its in the viewer.

    Other viewers are GPSVisualiser (converts IGC files into KML or KMZ files that Google Earth can display) and SeeYou or GPLIGC.


    --

    Martin | martin at
    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

    Martin thank you
    Let me look into that
    Nick
    T

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  • From Tim Newport-Peace@21:1/5 to Nicholas Kennedy on Sun Sep 4 09:56:01 2022
    On 29/08/2022 14:40, Nicholas Kennedy wrote:
    On Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 12:47:02 PM UTC-6, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT), Nicholas Kennedy wrote:

    Gents I recently download a bunch of flights from my Oudie 2.
    I've got the "Logger Permanently On" box ticked.
    1 Sec intervals.
    The last 4 flights the flight "Route" would not show up on the See You
    map, but the statistics do show up and are correct.
    Just the start point shows up with the glider sitting there.
    And the flight will not play in See You animation.

    Any ideas why the file does not show my track and animation on the map
    in See You?

    Two suggestions:

    1) Have you checked whether the memory the Oudie is using to store the log >> file is OK? If its using an SD card for that or for file transfers, and
    you've managed to power off the Oudie or pulled the card out while it
    was being written to, then the card may well be corrupted: SD cards
    and older memory sticks have zero tolerance for that.

    2) Have you looked at the file with a text editor? That's what I usually
    do in this sort of case, to check that the log was recorded correctly.
    An IGC log is just a plaintext file, containing a set of timestamped
    lines, so should be readable without difficulty by a text editor on a
    PC.

    The IGC logfile file format definition can be downloaded from the IGC
    site:

    https://www.fai.org/igc-documents

    Click on 'Flight Recorders' - you want the
    "IGC-approved Flight Recorders - Technical Specification"
    and make sure you download the 1361Kb PDF file, not the 55Kb one.
    The IGC file spec is Appendix A in that file and is pretty well described
    there.

    A quick scan of the first few 'B' lines after the headers should show you
    if one of these files differs from a known good file. I'd guess that if
    the file looks OK the problem is in your Oudie or its file storage memory, >> which may be damaged or just very old. If these are OK, then its in the
    viewer.

    Other viewers are GPSVisualiser (converts IGC files into KML or KMZ files
    that Google Earth can display) and SeeYou or GPLIGC.


    --

    Martin | martin at
    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

    Martin thank you
    Let me look into that
    Nick
    T
    If you look at the GPS Altitude barogram in SeeYou, how does it compare
    with the Pressure Altitude Barogram? Are the lots of cases of it
    dropping to zero?

    Tim.

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