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Garmin HD radar setup - jontys - 2020-02-19 After spending most of yesterday searching for instructions and details. I seem to be banging my head against a wall! I have a Garmin HD radar scanner (no display) a pi 3 with openplotter 2.0 installed and the pi radar 5.0 plug in. After a lot of time wasted, I found the installation guide info that mentions a switch from pin 5 of the ethernet cable to ground. This does turn on my radar, but not every time - does the radar shutdown again if there is no ethernet response? Is there a specific sequence for turn on? Sent from my COL-L29 using Tapatalk RE: Garmin HD radar setup - jontys - 2020-02-23 (2020-02-19, 10:28 AM)jontys Wrote: After spending most of yesterday searching for instructions and details. I seem to be banging my head against a wall!For the sake of anyone having the same issue: The ethernet cable should be an ordinary patch cable (not a crossover) and so, the F-F adaptor should be a back to back (not x-over). Taking pin5 to ground with the ethernet cable plugged into a working port will power up the scanner. I'm currently testing it on a win7 laptop using opencpn v5.0 and gradar and it does work. Radar_pi 5 is the recommended plug in, but, my opencpn reports it as incompatible! Sent from my COL-L29 using Tapatalk |