The Oudie Simulator
The pictures that I have published earlier of the Oudie screens
came off Steve Kroops' and my computers.
http://ozreport.com/22.099
http://ozreport.com/22.104
They were created using Oudie Simulator software which is found here:
https://www.naviter.com/download-manual-support/#Oudie
Direct download here:
http://download.naviter.com/oudie3/sim_mcu_para.exe
The Oudie Simulator lets you create new profiles (screen settings and much
more), just by just be moving fields around, adding or deleting fields, and
changing field characteristic, much the same way that you would do on the Oudie
itself, if you wanted to make changes. You can then download the profile that
you save, after the changes that you made, to your Oudie and then select it the
next time you start up the Oudie.
When you install the Oudie Simulator on your Windows computer you may find that
it is missing some files or at least not able to find them. On a Windows
computer it should create a Oudie3 folder under your Documents folder. As the
Oudie3 folder will not be containing any documents it is really inappropriate
for it to be created there, but I will ignore that for the moment. You can move
the folders and files to wherever you like, so it doesn't really matter where
they are originally stored.
When I installed the Simulator on my computer the installation actually put the
Oudie3 folder in my Microsoft OneDrive (a cloud computer resource) Documents
folder as well as on my local Documents folder. Not exactly a great place for
it. Then it configured the Simulator to reference the OneDrive folder. I had to
stop that.
Once you have installed the Simulator you may find (I did) that it doesn't know
where some missing files are. Or that it doesn't know about the different
Profiles that you have on your Oudie (my Simulator didn't). You may need to fix
that problem (I did).
If your Oudie Simulator has multiple profiles in a folder where it thinks the
profiles are stored then you will see a screen like this when you first start up
the Simulator:
If it doesn't find multiple profiles then it will look like this (depending on
the profile that it does find):
In order to let the Simulator find all the files that it requires you'll need to
check out its Settings. To do this click the "Menu" button at the bottom right
of the screen (see above). Then click the Settings button in the upper right
hand corner of the next screen. Click "Next>" in the upper right hand
corner of the next screen. Then click "Files." You'll see a screen like this:
This is where you tell the Oudie Simulator where the necessary files are
located. The problem is that you may not have those files on your computer (I
didn't). But they are found in your Oudie. You can download them to your
computer from your Oudie. Just turn on your Oudie and pull it into your computer
using the USB cable.
The Simulator comes with demo versions of these files, but the Settings - Files
may not point to them. You can just edit the fields on the screen above to point
to the folder on your computer than does contain these files. It will likely be:
DocumentsOudie3mSeeYou.
You'll find the terrain files that are appropriate for your area in the
Maps folder on your Oudie. Just download the file that you want to your computer
in the folder that you are going to use for the Simulator. Then change the
Terrain file setting to match that file name and location. You'll find that the
arrows keys on your keyboard don't work (at least I did), but the delete and end
keys do, so you have limited editing abilities when changing the path names for
these file settings.
The file "NorthWestAmerica.cit" is actually western North America. The file "NorthEastAmerica.cit"
is actually eastern North America.
The airspace files (*.CUB) are found in the Airfields and AirspaceSeeYou Cloud
on your Oudie. Copy the appropriate airspace file to your computer and edit the
Airspace field in the Settings screen above.
Assuming that you have a SeeYou formatted waypoints file (*.CUP) for your local
flying area, copy it to the folder that you'll use as your Waypoints folder for
your Oudie. It can be the same folder as the previous folders or just the Oudie3
folder or DocumentsOudie3mSeeYou or any folder that you like. Your Oudie has
additional *.CUP files that you can download and point to if you like.
There is already a Flights folder setup when you installed the Oudie Simulator.
You can use it to store some flights that you might want to see displayed on the
Simulator, or you can point to a folder where you already store your flights.
Just edit the Flight folder path on the screen shown above.
If you have multiple profiles or just one (say the default profile) make sure
that the Current Profile path is shown correctly in the last field in the screen
above. Only if you have multiple profiles, will you see the screen that allows
you to select a profile as see above.
Then click Okay.
You're not done yet.
Go back to the Settings screen (see instructions above). Click "Next>" in
the upper right hand corner three times. Click "Input." Click the three dots,
"...", in the file field. Choose the IGC track log that you want displayed on
your Simulator.
I'm discussing here how to use the Simulator as a tool to design your Oudie
interface, not as a tool to see how it displays data as you go through a flight,
but it is a good idea of have everything working, so choosing a flight that
corresponds to your waypoints, terrain, and airspace is a good idea.
Now that hopefully you've got the Simulator setup so that it will actually work,
you can begin playing with the user interface. You can stop the replay of a
flight by tapping the appropriate button at the top of the screen. Then you can
start moving things around.
But, you are not done yet.
You'll want to register your Oudie Simulator. I have no idea why Naviter would
make you register the Simulator, since it only makes sense to use it if you have
purchased an Oudie, but if you don't register it a registration window will pop
up now and then and you have to click a few buttons to get rid of it. I wrote to
Jost Napret <<support>>
at Naviter and he gave me the user name and registration key (which only lasts a
year).
To find out what each of the fields do, check out the documentation linked to
above. As I run into more issues as I edit various profiles, I'll be sure to
write up my experiences as I have here.
http://OzReport.com/1527601938
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