MK10 Bluetooth Keyboard

Mine lights up when pushing any key after hitting the bulb button.  I flew at night a few days ago and it lights up well.  

I was able to turn the back lighting on and off by pressing the light bulb key in the upper left. After turning on, it would time out and shut off after about a minute.

So what buttons work on the Kb? I could enter flight plan alphabets, and freqs only after pushing the button on the IFD, the com button on the KB didn't do anything
Am I missing something?
And just by the way, I'm missing my T-shirt.

Arrow keys were also enabled to be able to move around the flight plan.  The up/down was like the outer knob and the left and right was like the inner knob.  I'm pretty sure ENT and CLR worked as well.  The keyboard was fast and responsive, definitely well integrated even without all the keys mapped yet.

It could well be a coincidence, but I had a weird problem right after pairing my keyboard yesterday. Keyboard worked initially, but after a restart I couldn't get GPS at all. Status pages showed blank for LIO and GPS and I had a 429 input error plus the keyboard was no longer recognized. This persisted after a restart, but things worked fine again after I downloaded logs.

Edited by Royski - 17 Jan 2016 at 9:03am

Jake
I decided to try to use the frequency button as you suggested and see how I like it. Of course, my luck, the first frequency that ATC gave me was not on the list despite scrolling to the bottom. 127.9 out of Providence.   I ended up entering it manually with the BT keyboard.   You had asked for us to let you know when frequencies were missing.

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Paired my keyboard and my IFD540 today. The tech rep I spoke with was very helpful, and said many exciting features soon to be available.

IFD540 registered on MyAvidyne. How do we know when the keyboard is on the way?

Thanks in advance

Registered last week. PM shortly.

paulr wrote: I'm wondering that too-- I bought a new Avidyne stack at the beginning of the year, registered it on MyAvidyne, and now UPS tells me I have an Avi package on the way. Is it the keyboard? A t-shirt? A printed user guide? The suspense is killing me!

My bet is on the keyboard - that is the way mine came.  Have fun!

Edited by AUXAIR - 25 Jan 2016 at 1:32pm

teeth6 wrote: Can two keyboards be paired to the same IFD?  I wondering if those with 2 keyboards as a result of having dual IFDs, can have a fully charged keyboard ready to go so that if the battery in the other keyboard dies, they can be swapped and continue on controlling the same IFD that the other keyboard controlled.

I'm wondering that also, however, I bought & registered (2) IFD540s but only received one keyboard.

Louise

Perhaps, along the way they decided to give one keyboard even for dual IFDs.  I had thought on an old thread it was said it was one per IFD

teeth6 wrote: have a fully charged keyboard ready to go so that if the battery in the other keyboard dies.

I put the charging cable in the plane with the keyboard.  I do not ever expect to charge it at home again.  If it runs down, I'll just plug it into the IFD to recharge it.

David Bunin

I don't have a solution yet.  I was down for annual about the time the keyboard arrived so I haven't actually flown with it yet.  I have a flight planned today, but the route is not very complicated.

Like you, I am very happy with the user interface of the IFD itself.  So not sure how much I would/will actually use the keyboard.  Right now I have it stowed in the seat back pocket of the copilot's seat, where I can reach it without removing my seatbelt.  In my mind, the keyboard would be great in turbulence because it moves with your hand.  But I don't have any real experience to support (or refute) that notion.

Maybe I won't use the keyboard much at all, but I still think it's a cool idea and I'm glad I got one.

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Somewhere in the printed material it says to velcro it down someplace.  My yoke is already occupied so I guess I would have to put it on top of the glareshield.

David

I think you are speaking to our sales rep now so you should be all set.

DavidBunin wrote: Maybe I won't use the keyboard much at all, but I still think it's a cool idea and I'm glad I got one.

I found my first good use for the keyboard.  I flew in the cold last weekend, and it turns out my favorite "driving gloves" are not touch-screen compatible.  So the keyboard is great for programming with gloves on.

David Bunin

I have an IFD540 and IFD440 in one plane and an IFD540 in the other.  I received only one keyboard and no T-shirt.  Bummer

My keyboard finally arrived 9 Feb. I think maybe I was forgotten since the unit was returned last summer for repairs. I called tech support a couple weeks ago and I suspect that got the ball rolling. Can't wait to try it.

Edited by FEisert - 10 Feb 2016 at 11:25am

The procedure is described in the latest PG. Just search for bluetooth.

Hi Tom-

Gang-

Thanks for the help, I have software 10.1.0 so I can't turn on the blue tooth.  (There is your problem!)  I'm thinking I'll wait on 10.1.2 so as not to have to hit the avionics shop twice. Is this a short (Weeks) or Months wait, anybody?

Regards,


Edited by TomG - 15 Feb 2016 at 10:23am

I'm not getting my keyboard to Pair. 
I get through all of the steps and when I do the Bluetooth search
it finds the Avidyne keyboard.  I press the pair button and get the code
which I enter.  I then press the Enter button on the 540 and the done button comes up.
When I push that to exit maintenance mode, the 540 reboots.  The keyboard blinking green light never quits blinking and when I touch the standby com button, the virtual keyboard comes up on the 540, but pressing the number or letter buttons on the bluetooth keyboard has no effect.
The green light does not stop blinking on the BT keyboard.
Software version is 10.1.1 and Bluetooth selection is set to ON.

Nope... Didn't realize the keyboard was a one per aircraft deal. Not a problem, but lets say hypothetically that I bought another aircraft with a G530 and decided to move one of the 540's over, it would be nice to already have the keyboard in hand....  

lets say hypothetically that I bought another aircraft

I don't know the future retail price of a keyboard, but I have to imagine that it is an insignificant expense in the scope of acquiring a whole nuther airplane.

Also, if your (one) keyboard lives in your flight bag next to your headset, there's no reason that your one keyboard couldn't pair in both airplanes.

On the other hand, if you're the kind of guy who buys another headset for the other airplane, well ... a second keyboard still probably costs less than a second headset.

David Bunin


Edited by DavidBunin - 17 Feb 2016 at 9:06am