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[Julspower]

Hi
I coulnd't find your email and I don't know why homebuild forum doesn't work with me.
I do have a RV7A and electronic knowledged. I kinda have a similar project in work but im not completly to the efis point
im currently building hardware control and sensor for different part, like light and trim controller.
do you still work on your project? maybe we could converge to the same goal

[sam-itt]

Hi,

My email is samuel.cuella@gmail.com. I didn't get any message notification from HBA in a while :).

I'm still working on the project although at a reduced pace. I've nearly finished putting together a menu system that will allow users to do a "go to" with the map. That is the next thing that will be integrated and pushed on github. I've just finished moved in a new home, a new hangar for the plane and I'm currently doing my annual inspection, thus time is scarce right now. I will make more progress on SoFIS as winter comes in.

I'll be glad to work/converge with someone that more into electronics. I'm pretty bad at it :).

[Julspower]

That sound like a good news
I live in québec btw
where would you like to talk mostly here or email or somewhere else?
Im good with electronic design and pcb and not decent at programming. I also have a 3d printer if you want to test some enclosure.

currently I have a pi Zero w that I can remote debug my application (only artificial horizon yet) on it and a small 9 axis board a nice 10inch 1000nits lcd. I haven't touch that part for a year tho (too much project)

Currently im working on lights and lights controller for my father next plane.
tell me what you have as vision we'll see we could probably work together :D

[sam-itt]

Just a quick answer to ack to your message. I'm really busy for next couple of days, I'll get you a real/full answer afterwise (this weekend hopefully).

[sam-itt]

where would you like to talk mostly here or email or somewhere else?

For that kind of discussion who tend to get lengthy I prefer email

Im good with electronic design and pcb and not decent at programming. I also have a 3d printer if you want to test some enclosure.

That is exactly what I need. What I would like to see is to get data from sensors like engine temperature (water/oil), engine rpm, airspeed with a sensor like this one. I'm a thinking about having an arduino (or alike) talk with the sensors + do the ADC and send all the values to the RPI through a serial line.

currently I have a pi Zero w that I can remote debug my application (only artificial horizon yet) on it and a small 9 axis board a nice 10inch 1000nits lcd. I haven't touch that part for a year tho (too much project)

Nice! Is your code public? I have more features but nothing is on a real plane yet. I have a friend who is going to be an alpha tester, he is currently rebuilding his panel and I'm waiting for the screen etc to pre-assemble everything so he can mount it.

Currently im working on lights and lights controller for my father next plane.
tell me what you have as vision we'll see we could probably work together :D

For short I want to create something that anyone can build with off the shelf parts while providing similar functions than an uncertified glass cockpit. Open source so that the project can live on and get code/interest from others. I also think that you surely can help the project with your skills/equipment :)

[Julspower]

you leave me with a cliffhanger like that... what do you prefer :D, btw my email is julien_gingras@hotmail.com

for communication between the sensor and the Pi or between them I thought to use uavcan, https://uavcan.org/
can is pretty robust low level hardware uavcan will be the layer above for protocol. The module I have designed yet all have a can transceiver. but unfortunately due the global semiconductor shortage I haven't test it yet.

the code isn't public but it isn't close either ill try to create a git for it to share (im using qt and there is probably code in french in there :D)

I think our goal are pretty much aligned, im used the the MGL efis (the one I have in my rv7) moving map may be complicated for me since the official vnc map are not free, there are source like skyvector that I could pick the map from but im not at that point im pretty sure youll get there before me. So I will focus on designing hardware and communication with my RPi (I also have a new cm4 with a mirko pc under it which can have a ssd, so pretty much unlimited storage space :D, thats the part im working while I wait for new pcb for a new power supply since there no part for the one I already designed...)
I also looked into "synthetic vision" like a view of the cockpit with the mountain, but working in 3d trying to show mountain and elevation warning is hard for me at the moment and would require some learning on my part but seem your project has already done a lot on that part.

So I will continue to work on module and sensor (now some light and the light controller, then the trim controller (which I already have a pcb), then probably on trying to do a decent ahrs (you can read that page for another great project here: https://www.pittnerovi.com/jiri/hobby/electronics/avionics/index.html)
then im thinking to a power supply virtual fuse, much like vpx system from vertical.
And of course all those will be highly experimental, you might be crazy to fly only with those (which I am I guess) but with dual everything and maybe an old airspeed dial you might feel safe :D.

So hit me up if you need anything might be you just want to talk about idea or you want me to tests something (ill try to run your code soon) and ill put up a git for my program I currently have

[Julspower]

I did clone your git on my raspberry and tried to build it
no luck on my side due to depedency SDL_gpu.h: No such file or directory
trying to build sdl-gpu gave me more error

[Julspower]

I was able to build sdl-gpu and install it but still have and sdl_gpu.h error when building sofis

[sam-itt]

Can you please provide the full build log? I'll look into it. You can also use a pre-built image with everything from here.

[Julspower]

https://pastebin.com/9qsSxWNt
here are the log while I follow the instruction to build sofis

[Julspower]

I found out that if I include "SDL2/SDL_gpu.h" instead of just "SDL_gpu.h" at all the places in your code I get a little further but still doesn't compile
for that part im guessing its just an include missing because the sdl_gpu lib is inside a directory: "/usr/local/include/SDL2/"

[Julspower]

Here is what I have yet
https://github.com/Julspower/JulsEfis
don't ask me how to compile it.
been more than a year im not sure I remember, I know im remote running and debugging it on my pi zero that is hooked to my lcd.

here is the code I was working on to get the right calibration on boot
https://github.com/Julspower/ReadEEprom

and the motion module I use for this is: https://github.com/kriswiner/EM7180_SENtral_sensor_hub
he did write some pretty interresting stuff on motion sensor and ahrs

[Julspower]

read here : https://github.com/kriswiner/MPU6050/wiki/Affordable-9-DoF-Sensor-Fusion

[sam-itt]

https://pastebin.com/9qsSxWNt here are the log while I follow the instruction to build sofis

The build system currently expects SDL_gpu to be installed alongside SDL2. As per your log it seems that SDL_gpu is in /usr/local/include while SDL2 is in /usr/include.

Try to re-install SDL_gpu into /usr/include by doing the following commands into SDL_gpu source directory

$ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
$ make
# make install

Here is what I have yet https://github.com/Julspower/JulsEfis don't ask me how to compile it. been more than a year im not sure I remember, I know im remote running and debugging it on my pi zero that is hooked to my lcd.

Empty repo here :)

[Julspower]

I will try that soon with sdl_gpu

my git is updated I forgot to press commit :D

[Julspower]

it get a little further
now I get:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbrcmGLESv2
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:59: sofis] Error 1

im on buster
cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"