Any help please. I would like to transfer routes from a Nexus 7 ( android) to a Garmin 496. I use my Nexus for all my route planning and in flight monitoring but use the 496 for my autopilot. I appreciate I can up load to the cloud etc but it would be so slick to transfer an SD route directly to the 496. Any thoughts?

Does this help you?

http://www.skydemon.aero/corporate/news.aspx?story=119


Mike
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Sorry, I don't think there's even a way of connecting an Android device to a 496. And if there were, developing the interface to communicate over that connection is way outside what would be practical for us.

Thanks for that. That's a shame because in many aircraft the 496 is the standard setup for autopilot operation but it is difficult ( but not impossible) to replicate SD routes, especially where user waypoints have been setup.
Are there any other devices out there which are able to receive SD routes from an Android device or Ipad that can drive an autopilot? Can SD run on a device which can run an autopilot? Cheers

I own a Garmin gpsmap 495 myself for backup. Yours should be the same device, adding street navigation. I simply use my Notebook & Skydemon for Windows to transfer routes to the 495/6 via USB. Works fine.

-mike

I think, this i a solution:
http://forums.skydemon.aero/Topic10844.aspx

HTH
Chris

I am in the same situation:
- using a nexus 7 (latest android version) with an OTG cable (fitted with a SD card) on the usb port
- using a garmin 695 driving my autopilot; with latest software (7.20)
note: the garmin 695 can import, from the SD card, the "garmin" .fpl  files created by Skydemon in windows,.
note: with the last garmin softwares (last 2 years), the garmin 695 cannot be connected directly by usb cable to anything; it must read a sd card for updates.
My goal: in Skydemon on the Nexus, become able to create  a route in "garmin" .fpl  format like in Skydemon/windows, and be able to copy it with the app "Nexus USB OTG file manager" from the Nexus internal memory onto the SD card (read by the 695), in order to save buying and carrying a windows note book when traveling.

Status: everything described above works EXCEPT that the android skydemon software does not seem to create "garmin" .fpl  files (with the "send by email" functionality) like the windows skydemon version: my garmin 695 sees the .fpl file on the sd card (created/copied from the Nexus) , but it cannot import it (which is a format issue). If the android version of Skydemon would create the same "garmin" .fpl  format as the windows version of skydemon, our problem would be resolved (i.e. create routes on the Nexus then save them to the garmin 695 for the autopilot)

Mike, can you help ?

many thanks!
Daniel