Raspberry Pi version of Flight Stream 210

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A couple of years ago I forked over 1 amu for a Stratus 2S. Shortly afterwards some clever people came up with the Statux for under $200. Such is the world of electronics, I guess.
I would like a Garmin Flight Stream 210 to make working with my GNS 430 easier.
So here is another little box for 1 amu.
It would be really cool if some similarly cleaver people could clone the FS 210 for under $200.
Seriously.
Does anybody else thinks that this would be really cool?
 
Is this for E-AB? LSA? Or do you not care about TSO compliance?
 
I'd consider it problematic to use a non-tso'd, permanently installed device to send flight plans to my navigator. [and I fly an E-AB]
 
You’d have to reverse engineer Garmin’s protocols, which I guess they did with stratus, Im betting that’s not easy, and connecting to certified equipment....personally I’d spend the extra $800.
 
Sounds like a fun project. If someone wants to send me a spare 430 and a flight stream, I love to work on it. :)
 
Garmin's proprietary protocols make this very unlikely. And that in fact did not happen with Stratus; Stratus uses mostly straight GDL90 for which the protocol description is easily and publicly available. Little/no reverse engineering of the protocol itself was required.
 
ChiefPilot said:
Garmin's proprietary protocols make this very unlikely. And that in fact did not happen with Stratus; Stratus uses mostly straight GDL90 for which the protocol description is easily and publicly available. Little/no reverse engineering of the protocol itself was required.
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Foreflight did it, don’t know if they had Garmin’s help.
 
It's just a bluetooth gateway. Raspberry PI 3 has a bluetooth on it. A little playing around with Node-red and it should be there. Looks like one of the protocol/interface to talk with Garmin is GPS-C. Serial 2 pin with Transmit and Receive. Ground is Airframe ground.
 
teejayevans said:
You’d have to reverse engineer Garmin’s protocols, which I guess they did with stratus, Im betting that’s not easy, and connecting to certified equipment....personally I’d spend the extra $800.
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teejayevans said:
You’d have to reverse engineer Garmin’s protocols, which I guess they did with stratus, Im betting that’s not easy, and connecting to certified equipment....personally I’d spend the extra $800.
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Not meaning to sound snarky but I would rather add that $800 to the Avidyne IFD440 replacement which has all of this already built in. But I was wondering about the possibility
yetti said:
It's just a bluetooth gateway. Raspberry PI 3 has a bluetooth on it. A little playing around with Node-red and it should be there. Looks like one of the protocol/interface to talk with Garmin is GPS-C. Serial 2 pin with Transmit and Receive. Ground is Airframe ground.
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Wow, see guys, easy-peasy!
 
FS210 costs less than 1AMU. Go find a dealer that will sell for less than list.
 
Aircraft spruce has it at $975, plus around another amu to get my FAA approved, tso'd avionics guy to install it,
Hmmm..... never mind. Go Avidyne!
 
teejayevans said:
Foreflight did it, don’t know if they had Garmin’s help.
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No, they didn't do any reverse engineering - they got help from Garmin; Garmin wanted Foreflight to support their boxes. No reverse engineering required.
 
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