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To thank you for your help and patience, I'm contributing back an italian translation

Yay! It works now, and looking at the instructions on the download page I see it is somehow said, but it isn't totally clear... maybe you should put in an example for not-so-techy people, something like: 1. Edit DigiflyDownloaderLinux.sh, find "-Duk.org.birtles.digifly.serialPrefix=/dev/ttyUSB&...

I don't understand exacly what you mean with "name of the serial device", so I'll post here some random names :) The phisical device itself is a Digifly flyer2 vario, here the output of the command V in cutecom: DIGIFLY FLYER_2 62.5 15450 ULISSE The serial port it is connected to is mapped...

Upgraded to the latest firmware, still not working with your app. :( This is my edited launch script: #!/bin/bash CDIR=`pwd` java -Dgnu.io.drivers.Serial="$CDIR"/lib/drivers/Linux/i686-unknown-linux-gnu/librxtxSerial.so -Duk.org.birtles.digifly.serialPrefix=/dev/ttyS0 -cp lib/javacsv.jar:D...

update!
I removed the LF line end from cutecom settings and now V is returning a string:
DIGIFLY FLYER_2 02.9 15450 Ulisse

I tried all other letters in alphabet, but all I get is "?" or "!" or at least "2" if I type "v"...

Today I tried the same cable on a windows machine, with the 2009 version of VLtools, and it connects and downloads the logbook, so I can assume the cable is OK. In Linux, with the same settings you wrote, sending "V" with cutecom results again in a "?" from the device :( I've not...

hi Alan, I've just bought an old Digifly Flyer2 vario, and as I'm running linux i think your application could be very useful to me. Sadly, the vario came without the cable, so I managed to build a serial one like this in the diagram: http://digifly.lukelemmen.net/Pictures/cable.gif I think I can co...