Dear friends of JETI-modelling,
I am new to this forum, but I nonetheless am a long-time user and great admirer of the extraordinary work of the JETI development team, who undoubtedly did an excellent job providing us with highly reliable and adaptable products.
Some time ago I emailed JETI, regarding a possible extension of their receiver/sensor update program, to work on Mac OS X/Linux machines. My idea was, that maybe reprogramming the whole thing on basis of JAVA would be a viable solution to this issue. However, a quick response merely consisted of putting me off to waiting on “further developments”. This was about two years ago.
In the meantime I was able to get both programs working using WINE (some Windows emulator for UNIX-machines), but had great difficulties to get the USB-driver up and running. Some error messages still emerge in some input log files, hence it does not seem to be a good idea to trust this patchwork.
Last week, while again wasting ages on updating my numerous receivers using my laptop and a 2m extension cable, I spontaneously came up with the following (maybe new) idea:
A JAVA-implementation of the JETI receiver/sensor update program would not only greatly help Mac OS X/Linux users, but would also make this software easily amendable to an ANDROID implementation.
One can then equip one’s (already available) JETI USB-adaptors with the standard smartphone micro USB plug and easily install new updates as one assembles one’s plane/chopper on field using your smartphone. No more messing around with your laptop and sesquipedalian cables!
It should be perfectly clear, that this approach is immensely superior to any updating procedure of any competing RC system out there I have ever heard of.
One could certainly find some other merits of connecting ones smartphone to a receiver/sensor (logfile readout, telemetry, system check, ...).
Regards,