Radio/Comms/Auxiliary Device Integration; Audio Output; Battery And Power Management - Triadis Engineering Glide Computer and Navigation System Owner's Manual

2.6 Radio/Comms/auxiliary device integration

Electronic compass : An electronic compass with NMEA output, for example,
Aircraft radio : Display and control of the radio frequency of the radio.
Mobile telephone : Send and receive position and weather data via a GPRS,

2.7 Audio output

2.8 Battery and power management

A secondary communications port allows Altair to be connected to
a communications device with an RS232 serial interface. Typical
applications include:
Honeywell Digital Compass HMR3000.
CDMA or other mobile telephone or modem module.
Note: aircraft radio transceiver and mobile telephone support in
XCSoar is in development and not yet publicly available.
Other peripheral devices that do not have an RS232 serial interface
but do have a Bluetooth radio transceiver may also be supported
through the use of a third party Bluetooth serial adaptor.
When used with Vega, audio output from the XCSoar program
is fed into the audio mixer in Vega and played on the speaker or
headset. A variety of sounds can be triggered by glide computer
events. Refer to the XCSoar documentation for more details.
Volume of the audio output is controlled in XCSoar from the menu:
CONFIG Vario/
The software and data files used by Altair reside in nonvolatile
memory and so do not rely on battery backup. The purpose of the
backup battery is to provide for emergency power if the aircraft's
main battery supply is depleted.
This battery is charged automatically when an external power sup-
ply is available and the device is switched on. As a result, it causes
an additional drain on the aircraft's main batteries while charging.
Ensure that Altair is switched off after flight when the main bat-
teries are switched off, so the backup battery does not get depleted
when Altair is not in use.
The backup battery can also be used to provide power to Vega and
a FLARM unit (if it is connected to Vega); in this setting it can
power all these devices for up to one hour. When Altair switches to
using the backup battery, it emits three beeps and the LED flashes
Setup audio
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