ADSB-IN Devices
ADSB Status
If you your tablet is connected to an ADS-B IN device, typically by connecting to its WiFi network, then the status of the connected device will be shown here.
(Please note that ADSB-PI devices are not supported on the Android platform).
External GPS units
External GPS units, which are generally connected to your device by Bluetooth, will almost certainly work as a source of position information. The connection to external GPS units is managed by the operating system (Android) rather than by AvPlan. Hence if a device is said by the manufacturer to be compatible with your Android device, then it should work. All you have to do is make the bluetooth connection. The device will then become the default source of GPS position data for your tablet or phone.
A Note on hot-spotting a non-GPS-equipped tablet to a GPS-equipped phone
Phone to tablet hot-spotting will not provide the tablet with reliable position data.
AvPlan works by requesting the operating system on your device to provide location data; a GPS-enabled device will return an accurate location when requested. However, if the device decides that the location information it is receiving is not of sufficient quality (because it cant see enough GPS satellites, for example), then it will be unable pass quality location data to AvPlan or any other app.
When location data is being provided by a GPS inside the device the signal will generally be of high quality and will will be rapidly updated. But when you are hot-spotting to a phone, location information provided by the phone may only be sent sporadically, if at all, in between all the other tasks running between the phone and tablet (like sharing the internet). The data signal is consequently poor, and generally insufficient to deliver continuous location data to the tablet.
It may therefore sometimes appear that hot-spotting for location data is working, but it will not work for long, and the transfer of location data will typically fail more often than it succeeds, especially when you start moving! Hence hot-spotted location data is not accurate enough to be useable.
If you have a non-GPS-equipped tablet, then to get a GPS location you will need a dedicated external GPS receiver to connect to it. A number of these are listed on the AvPlan-EFB website.
Panel Devices
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