prunkdump / GNUVario-TTGO-T5

The GNUVario source code for the TTGO-T5
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idea: Paramotor engine integration #7

Open mikechristiansen opened 2 years ago

mikechristiansen commented 2 years ago

Hi Dev, Thank you very much for sharing this project! I have just built one unit and have used it once but it is fantastic! Love the way your integrating modules making the build very straight forward.

Im just getting into paramotoring after free flying for many years. There are many RPM and cylinder head temperature (CHT) gauges available to monitor your engine in flight. Most are cobbled together from the scooter market and mostly seperate devices meaning you end up with wires and modules everywhere. Nothing affordable exists with data logging functions. There are the high end systems like the IQ Motor+ https://naviter.com/brauniger-iq-motor/ however these seem to be end of line.

I wonder if its possible to build a device say using a ESP32 with BLE to measure these motor values and send them to your variometer to display and record? Im guessing this would require significant code changes on your variometer and seperate "engine module" hardware / code development.

if your interested in extending your project in this direction im keen to assist where I can. I could do some hardware development, minor software (limited skills here) and testing. Im hoping there are others that are also interested in this?

Kind regards and thank you for everything you have given us here.