PORT 30003

[Andy Frost]

andy i have squawbox-connected its says waiting for flights,it was working ok
the first time,doing something wrong now.

Robbie, do you have flights with positional data (Lat/Lon) in your RadarBox MyFlights table? If not SquawkBox will not report any flights, it only outputs live flights where the positions are known. Otherwise what has changed since you first ran SquawkBox and you had it working? Have you tried restarting SquawkBox or RadarBox?

[OKC-Steve]

I don't recall having seen Alert, Emergency or Ident bits set.  Could change with V2.1.

And I certainly haven't seen an OnGround bit, but then I wouldn't expect to from my location.

Looking at a recording of the socket, it looks like they just stick some zero's on there to match the number of elements expected.

My suggestion to RB central would be to make the groundspeed and groundtrack a floating-point XXX.X or 1 digit accuracy, and to populate the boolean bits with actual data.

Course when they go to a 5 minute delay, maybe the socket won't be used.

[robbieinderry]

Thanks Andy will try it in the morning, on live flights.
thanks again.

[Allocator]

Course when they go to a 5 minute delay, maybe the socket won't be used.

The socket output will still be available - I believe that it was just a programming error that resulted in it being live rather than 5 minutes delayed - as it has been in all the earlier versions of RB.

[robbieinderry]

andy.
got it up and working, i like the squawk box its brilliant,and the Google earth is great
far better than the radar box map,thanks for that andy.your a star