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Flight Information eXchange Gateway
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MGL RDAC #97

Open e100 opened 8 months ago

e100 commented 8 months ago

I need to interface to an MGL RDAC, if anyone has some existing code that would be nice. If not, is anyone else interested in such a plugin? What features do you need?

I was thinking the plugin should not only get data from the RDAC over the CAN bus, but also be able to impersonate an RDAC and send data on the CAN bus. Being able to send data as an RDAC would be quite useful for anyone who has MGL equipment.

I only have an RDAC XG to test with but the plugin should work with the XF model too.

brightproject commented 2 months ago

I only have an RDAC XG to test with but the plugin should work with the XF model too.

Hello @e100 I have two devices:

  1. RDAC Vb(Bottom)
  2. RDAC XB(Right)

photo1713514890 How can this help you? I definitely need to understand the protocols, because... I wanted to connect devices to PyEfis. I also managed to download firmware dumps from the devices, but I will not check them yet by re-uploading them to the devices, because ... I'm afraid they will stop working. Of course, I can’t get the source code, although I tried to disassemble the downloaded *hex dumps.

e100 commented 2 months ago

Unfortunately these legacy devices are not supported in fix gateway. I did add a plugin for the RDAC XG and XF that communicate using CAN bus.