Link to SX support page
GRT Sport SX software change history
- SX 16.00 (2022-07-27)
- Fix maintenance status message for non-remote EIS
- Fix slow loading of Synthetic Vision terrain while in SLEW mode
- Add echo Device Type for ESX (except ESX was discontinued)
- Add "Garmin/Trimble No Error Code" to AltEnc formats to disable
error code output. Some devices don't understand the error codes and
may see them as a valid altitude (Lynx NGT-9000). If there's an error,
the output will be suspended.
- Fix incorrect GPS updates during demo playback in dead reckoning mode
- Fix compatbility of AHRS and GPS serial input settings with other EFIS models
- Add Vertical Speed Filter settings to smooth vertical speed display
- Read 300F VDO fluid temp from EIS Model R66 Aux when scale factor is zero
- Fix incorrect reprocessing of previous messages from the GTX330 serial input
- Add flight director fixed V as attitude reference. Note: This forces ILS Type to Scales mode.
- Fix terrain showing on split page with HSI
- Fix XPDR indications during demo playback with SL70/STX165
- Fix extra data on display link with SL30 VOR/ILS input
- Fix repeated time updates and fractional offset with high-rate GPS inputs
- Add full Gray Code Adapter module interface with serial passthru
- Improve Synthetic Vision display performance when many runways are nearby
- Fix invalid airspeed output in Fuel/Air Data S/Z messages when sensor reports invalid or negative pressure
- Improve performance of Serial Port Combiner (SPC) input
- Add Serial Port Combiner error counters to checksum status page
- Update magnetic field model to IGRF13 2020-2025
- Fix calibration comparison and sync of missing magnetometer serial
number and add user override.
Many magnetometers made before 2020 report their serial number as zero.
This causes incorrect sync of calibration data between separate
magnetometers.
Magnetometer serial number zero is now ignored and requires an override
to sync calibration data.
The Mag Cal Data Sync menu now reports magnetometer serial numbers.
If they are zero or otherwise incorrect, user can assign each
magnetometer a number from 1-4 to match them up.
- Fix possibly using magnetometer calibration sync data without checksum
- Improve check of AHRS software versions and recommend updates on Power Up (ACCEPT) page
- Add button to Load AHRS updates from Power Up (ACCEPT) page if a newer update is recommended
- Update magnetometer orientation before every attempt to calibrate magnetometer
- Add message about not detecting magnetometer to magnetometer calibration page
- Read previously stored magnetometer calibration data directly from AHRS and draw it on graph
- Add options for 3 and 5 cylinders
- Add options to use older commands for SL30/SL40 control. The format
changed a long time ago but units with older software are still in use.
- Cross out XPDR box is there's no communication
- Fix size limit of some messages over the display link
- Add more conflict checks for "GPS from ADS-B Receiver" setting
- Automatically ignore GPS from ADS-B Receiver if another input is configured as the same GPS
- Show conflict messages before setting/help messages
- Replace VERT A/P with FLT DIR button if Vertical Autopilot Functions are disabled or not available
- Add remote EIS hourmeter offset. Remote EIS R66 doesn't have a way
to update hourmeter so the only way to correct the display is to add an
offset to every display that's directly wired to it.
- Interpret 6553.5 hours from EIS as zero. Many EIS models start with
this reset value for the first few minutes of engine operation.
- Fix reading negative OAT from the EIS Model 2000 and "GRT-Chelton" serial formats
- Fix possible software fault when reconfiguring serial port with Safe-Fly GPS control interface and TMAP mode
- Fix XM Weather data looping back and flooding display link
- Improve reporting of software faults in feedback reports
- Add help text to several ADS-B settings
- Change "GPS from ADS-B Receiver" setting to require Advanced ADS-B
Receiver Settings so it is not incorrectly configured as often.
- Fix updating invalid GPS track when GPRMC message is invalid and speed is near zero
- Fix engaging temporary heading hold mode when pitch is engaged first without Vertical Autopilot Functions
- Recalculate magnetic variation for old GPS modules. Add settings to force recalculation for any GPS.
- Add 57600 to automatic baud rates used for USB ADS-B for pingUSB traffic receiver
- Add Trig COM adapter error counters to serial checksum page
- Update ADS-B GPS interval for GPS Status page
- Don't display invalid ADS-B timestamp in ADS-B Status
- Add full remote interface for TailBeaconX with transponder functions and GPS input
- Read incorrect status messages from older TailBeaconX SL70-compatible output
- Fix serial input alarm for VP-X Pro/Sport
- Add minimum speed settings for AOA indexer and alerts
- Add GRT Discovery ADS-B receiver interface. Sends aircraft
identification, AHRS, and GPS data to receiver for filtering and app
use. Can be used to update receiver software.
- Fix handling an error condition when reading a corrupted plate or chart file
- Clarify Bluetooth status messages that indicate when the adapter is not detected
- Fix heading value conversion and invalid attitude formatting in checklist
- Add ULPower ECU RS232 input
- Save edited transponder code when IDENT is pushed to make it one step
- Fix incorrect unit conversion on default decision height setting, it should always be feet.
- Keep current VERT A/P mode if it's a normal altitude select mode when HDG/ALT button is pushed
- Disable APGPS NMEA0183 Passthru mode by default. Many newer GPS receivers don't fill in everything so the EFIS should do it.
- Add ForeFlight FPL file import from USB drive. These are the files attached when e-mailing a flight plan from ForeFlight.
- Fix duplicate traffic from Stratux receivers and others that include rebroadcasts
- Improve timeout handling when (Stratux) ADS-B serial stream is overloaded with traffic
- Fix data format checks on many ADS-B input messages
- Fix CAN "Bus Loopback Test" to actually transmit on CAN bus
- Add support for PBS TJ100 PP-25A data from CAN bus
- Fix possible data loading issue on Autopilot NMEA0183 GPGGA message
- Change Discrete Output status text to Open/Ground for user discretes
- Change Discrete Output default states to Open
- Add alternate input labels for Carb Temp Input: Manifold Air Temp (MAT), Intake Air Temp (IAT)
- Show N/E/S/W for cardinal directions
- Fix configuration of fuel level integer/decimal mode when graph max isn't configured
- Add more specific messages to AHRS Status line in AHRS Maintenance
- Draw waypoint balloon poles from current altitude if ground elevation isn't available
- Fix counting button inputs on each servo for single button configuration
- Clarify "Weather" settings as being "XM Weather" or "XM WX"
- Clarify upgrade package name in "not found" error message
- Remove "PFD LOCK" function since it was too often activated accidentally
- Fix baroset position when setting on split pages with large altimeter box
- Improve responsiveness of file browser
- Use file browser for Load EFIS Software, Load Navigation Database, Copy Terrain Database
- Jump to newest matching file when file browser loads
- Fix useless long check for linked copy of Jeppesen database when there's no display link
- Reset and remove unused altimeter Scale Factor and Airspeed Bias for Adaptive AHRS
- Deconfigure all modules for UART Test. UART Test only tests built-in ports now.
- Rename ARINC module passthru port to AMPT Serial Port to make it clear how the setting works
- Fix conflict checks for ARINC module passthru port
- Add more conflict checks for Virtual GPS2
- Ignore Virtual GPS2 setting if a real GPS2 input is active
- Show default port number for original "Yes" setting of ARINC Module Connected
- Extend EX GPS and the older GRT RAIM GPS message timeouts to prevent false alarms while configuring
- Show Magnetometer Heading as inactive when external magnetometer input isn't detected
- Improve Servo Response Test line colors and line thickness
- Fix pitch error direction on Servo Response Test
- Update SPC defaults to match newer defaults in Safe-Fly GPS (for echoUAT)
- Fix clearing transponder code setting message when exiting menu in some cases
- Sync selected heading first if a selected heading change causes a
switch from the initial heading-hold mode to regular heading mode
- Add GPS accuracy/integrity status in lateral status indicators (already in HXr proc beta)
- Fix possible temporary issue when reconfiguring a port with Safe-Fly GPS with TMAP interface
- Add NIC and NACp to GPS Status page
- Fix clearing flight plan identifier search matches when identifier is cleared
- Update buttons for context when flight plan identifier is cleared
- Update buttons and reset cursor when copying flight plan identifier from map cursor
- Rename identifier CLR knob to CLEAR
- Rename identifier EXIT function to CANCEL when the identifier hasn't been changed
- Add Cancel/Activate step when using direct-to buttons instead of immediately activating
- Exit flight plan page when direct-to activation is confirmed
- Always select active waypoint when opening plan page to make it easier to get details for the active waypoint
- Make left knob also move flight plan editor cursor
- Fix updating automatic direct-to history when the same waypoint is already in it
- Add ENAV and GNAV to lateral autopilot mode in checklist
- Expand flight plan nearest menus to match full map nearest menus
- Make DETAILS function clear in nearest lists
- Make SCROLL functions clear when viewing nearest details
- Fix HDG knob still active on map when another knob function is active or the map is in SLEW mode
- Disable CRS knob in SLEW mode
- Remove PLATE and TAF buttons for non-airports and remove TAF buttons without weather input
- Remove NEAREST METAR button without weather input
- Rename WTHR FREQ to WX FREQ
- Show uncorrected magnetometer heading and correction on Magnetometer Heading line
- Add option for servo Controller Number 3. Controller 3 can't recognize itself so there are no slip alarms.
- Add user waypoint selection with map cursor and touchscreen
- Add CURSOR label to left knob when editing user waypoint
- Fix airspace still being highlighted when some other map objects are selected after it
- Change GPS update timer sent to AHRS to better match what AHRS
expects. This can improve alignment on ground when GPS position is
intermittent.
- Fix altitude used when calculating magnetic variation for the EX GPS and the older GRT RAIM GPS modules
- Update settings menu immediately without saving to show other
settings and show conflicts when configuring Safe-Fly/SPC and TMAP
interface. This also makes the settings show up when playing a DEMO.
- Clarify in GPS from ADS-B Receiver help text that it should only be used for a GPS that isn't otherwise connected to the EFIS
- Add R66 label to EIS Model 4000/6000/9000 selection
- Add EIS Model 2002 option to handle its different oil temperature input
- Compute DEMO start time and date when saving first file if time
wasn't available when the recording started and it is available when
saving
- Limit range of years used for magnetic variation
- Improve traffic window handling of heading/track availability
- Read GTX remote status from serial input and add ability to copy GTX squawk code (beta feature needs more testing)
- Add OAT units setting to display OAT in different units than main temperature units
- Work around some newer Garmin IFR GPS models sending "ALT" instead of current waypoint identifier
- Fix using invalid time/date from ARINC input before it's good and apply GPS date correction
- Share AHRS OAT input over display link
- Prevent incorrectly correcting GPS dates in old DEMO recordings
- Add VP-X volts and amps bar graphs and data box selections
- Remove unused Aviation Status Data menu
- Hide ARINC Send Baroset setting when an ARINC module is not configured
- SX 15.02 (2019-05-01)
- Clarify servo direction test messages with "Roll Right" and "Pull Up"
- Make sure the setting will be saved if the only action taken is reverse servo direction
- Add GPS date correction to advance old GPS dates to the next GPS
week number range. This is known to affect some WAAS GPS "15x-H"
modules and the GRT LPV GPS.
- SX 15.01 (2019-04-05)
- Fix invalid data appearing as valid on GPS Status page when multiple GPS units are connected
- Recognize DGPS (WAAS) status from some older GPS units on the GPS Status page
- Ignore invalid timestamps from ADS-B receiver
- Allow for some clock error when storing ADS-B product time
- Fix storing higher resolution GPS position from some GRT GPS units (this data is not normally used)
- Fix software fault when receiving flight plans from the Bluetooth link
- Add SV terrain database titles for India
- Fix message about "invalid coarse magnetometer calibration" that doesn't apply to the installed hardware
- Add TT22 GPS Input option for Trig TN72 SIL 3
- Add TT22 Squat Switch option for automatic switch on GPS data only (works with TT22 SW 2.11)
- Add "Show Traffic on HSI" setting to allow user to turn off traffic symbols within the HSI
- Remove extra graphics cluttering the HSI on the PFD/HSI/ENG page. It should be the same as the PFD/HSI page.
- Add "MAP - Internal" option for PFD data box to show internal manifold pressure from Remote EIS
- Fix a display unit link setting synchronization issue that adds delays to the link and causes a very slow reaction to SWAP
- SX 15.00 (2018-06-08)
- Fix servo status displayed for servo not controlled by the display unit
- Fix matching of waypoints to displayed navaids and fixes on map
- Accept more than 12 satellites from NMEA0183 GPS
- Fix HSI bearing pointers and track offset when HSI falls back to track-up mode with AHRS in track mode
- Use ownship report address for filtering traffic
- Fix false roll/pitch trim required warnings from non-controlling unit by detecting which unit is controlling the GRT servos.
New setting in A/P Maintenance, Controller Number, sets controller. Set
to 1 for the primary controller and 2 for the backup controller. Auto
uses the display link ID.
- Add a shortcut to the transponder functions by holding the first Next button on the PFD menu
- Add data to the Bluetooth link to support future PFD/HUD graphics.
- Show invalid altimeter box on split pages when altimeter is marked invalid
- Don't show vertical speed if the altitude is marked invalid
- Automatically acknowledge temporary warnings from echoUAT TMAP after 10 seconds, and ignore false warning flags
- Fix alignment countdown with AHRS version 46
- Hide ADS-B Status lines that aren't supported by the connected receiver
- Hide SPC Input Counter when configured for echoUAT TMAP, it doesn't count in this mode
- Fix the display of navigation database Cycle and Expiration in SET MENU
- Send backlight level to the Bluetooth link so the app can use it for dimming
- Don't show invalid coarse magnetometer calibration messages if the AHRS doesn't have an internal magnetometer
- Add "Adapter" to TT22/echoUAT serial option to make it clear that it's used with the GRT Adapter
- Add support for Remote EIS
- Add Traffic Distance Filter
- SX 14.00 (2017-07-06)
- Improve lateral autopilot performance with Adaptive AHRS (requires AHRS software version 64 or newer)
- Add wind correction for more accurate winds (SET MENU, Primary Flight Display, Wind Correction)
- Add Roll Trim Required and Pitch Trim Required alarms when servo slipping is detected
- Add ability to send compliant GPS data over TT22/TMAP interface
- Send air data to TT22/TMAP interface for ADS-B air-ground switching (requires Adapter Software version 5 or newer)
- Add Squat Switch setting "AHRS and GPS data" for ADS-B air-ground switching using air data and GPS data
- Fix loading GRT Trig Transponder Adapter software update on dual control adapter with both channels active
- Add support for echoUAT RS232 TMAP interface through Safe-Fly GPS
- Mark Garmin test GPS data as flagged
- Mark Avidyne test GPS data as flagged
- Fix position of obstacles on map in SLEW mode
- Add 440, 540, and 550 EXT button labels for Avidyne IFD units
- Fix serial conflict checks for Safe-Fly GPS
- Add EGT1 and EGT2 bar graph options
- Show serial number on Option Codes page
- Fix confusing "No Communication" message on magnetometer data sync page
- Add airspaces to User Database
- Increase size limit for User Database
- Fix configuration of Serial Port Combiner ports after serial test
- SX 13.01 (2017-03-01)
- Fix missing heading when receiving AHRS data from the display link from pre-Adaptive AHRS display software
- SX 13.00 (2017-02-15)
- Fix confusing AHRS software update messages from another screen updating software
- Add number and time file type to USB Flight Data Logger
- Add always-record mode to USB Flight Data Logger
- Add EFIS voltages to USB Flight Data Logger
- Fix temporary incorrect message about magnetic field interference when booting Adaptive AHRS
- Fix incorrect TAS correction from True Airspeed Corrections table in some cases
- Add option to send turn-on sequence to some ADS-B receivers connected via USB
- Fix duplicate text in GPS Status page
- Reset GPS HOLD mode when an internal direct-to is set or reset
- Add SV Database titles for "USA, CAN, Bahamas" and "Mexico and Central America"
- Use time updates from GPS that isn't being used for navigation
- Add CHT Graphics setting to turn off CHT graphics or replace with Coolant Temperature
- Add Low MFS setting for weak magnetic fields in southern Africa
- Fix use of landing threshold and displaced threshold elevation in SAP from some data sources
- Fix reading negative cabin pressure from CO Guardian
- Add Plate Source setting to enable PDF Plates while ChartData is connected
- Fix reading audio files with extra chunks
- Fix handling of missing ChartData database
- Make both knobs work on frequency selection pages
- Fix selected knob when returning from frequency selection pages
- Add special handling for data from Stratux ADS-B receiver
- Fix delay in air-ground transition for transponder and ADS-B Out modes
- Compute fuel flow and percent power for MW Fly engine
- Increase servo trim audio alert timer to 5 seconds
- Add Roll Servo Damping and Pitch Servo Damping settings
- Add filtering to pitch torque sense
- Add Servo Response Test page
- Add Wind Data output
- Add 2000 to VFR Squawk Preset list for South Africa
- Add OAT Units setting
- Shorten glideslope capture delay to 1 second for GPSV mode
- Improve the appearance of the 1 degree down pitch ladder bars
- Add 38400 to list of automatic baud rates for USB ADS-B
- Send GPS altitude over the display link
- Update processing of advanced GPS inputs for "Autopilot (NMEA0183)" serial output
- Add GPGGA to "Autopilot (NMEA0183)" serial output
- Improve output rate of "Autopilot" serial output
- Fix use of pressure altitude received through GPS as GPS altitude
- Add APGPS NMEA0183 Passthru setting for devices that can't handle advanced GPS format changes
- Use ADS-B time if time and date are not available from another source
- Fix RCAN Serial Port Rate default
- Fix possible passthrough port interference with Remote CAN software updates
- Add Air/Ground Transition Speed setting (mainly for ADS-B)
- Improve restart of some data inputs when partial serial data is lost
- Fix menu changes when using option code import function
- Add SFC option to Performance/Fuel Box 2
- Add support for Safe-Fly GPS module and standalone Serial Port Combiner
- SX 12a (2015-11-09)
- Fix some audio alerts not playing if the alarm was already active before ACCEPT
- SX 12 (2015-10-16)
- Add TIS-B File Ghost Filter to detect and filter out an anonymous ownship TIS-B target
- Remove confusing help text from the Roll/Pitch Adjustment settings
- Fix the storage of Flight ID settings
- Update magnetic variation data
- Add support for the Remote CAN module
- Fix the help text for the Ethernet Link alarm
- Add support for new ARINC module hardware and update files
- Fix possible communication recovery failures with ADS-B, the new
ARINC module, the Display-Unit Link, and the Trig transponder adapter
- Fix delays while waiting for the USB Flight Data Logger to stop
- Fix the display of negative elevation on the airport DETAILS page
- Fix an ADS-B input lockup when processing some ADS-B METAR data
- Fix exit from TAF page
- Use user transponder mode when sending ADS600B mode
- Use user-configured units in nearest lists
- Add option code functions
- Add Bluetooth link
- Add support for the AOA sensor in the Adaptive AHRS with AOA module
- Update GPS Input options for TT22 to include ADS-B-compliant formats
- Fix cursor in Flight ID and Mode S Address editors
- Improve the processing of servo responses when the servo software version isn't known
- Fix the processing of incompatible and unconfigured settings when comparing limits with other displays
- Read the analog dimmer input from the Display-Unit Link
- Add notices about uncalibrated pitch servo trim
- Enable the heading select knob when setting VRATE
- Fix the date separator on the ADS-B Status page
- Clarify the XM WX Inter-Display Link settings
- Update serial and USB conflict checks
- Add bar to pressure unit options
- Exclude Analog Aux limits from Compare Limits function
- Add VFR Squawk Preset setting
- SX 11a (2015-03-05)
- Fix incorrect description or software fault in the file browser in Load AHRS Software
- SX 11 (2015-03-02)
- Fix user waypoint editor deleting edited waypoint
- Fix user waypoint editor not allowing ID of relative waypoint to be changed
- Fix rounding errors when loading user waypoint coordinates into editor
- Show all User Waypoints on map within range limit setting
- Fix accelerated increment with Logbook edit knob
- Add audio alerts
- Fix incorrect heading of traffic window/inset when map is NORTH UP or not shown
- Fix cursor selecting TFR's that aren't shown
- Show a black symbol in SHOW METARS mode when the airport doesn't have a METAR
- Fix minor METAR symbol size and color issues
- Use ADS-B GPS data for Autopilot serial output
- Share ADS-B GPS input over the display link
- Compute magnetic variation for ADS-B GPS input
- Show uncorrected probe value on Fuel Data Scale page
- Add SET button to Fuel Data Scale page to enter the current probe value into the selected box
- Fix software fault when an XM WX radar arrives with a bad size
- Fix Load SV Database functions trying to load without internal storage
- Add 230400 to list of serial rates to work with serial ADS-B receivers (Ports 3-8 only)
- Add ADS-B GPS Type setting to enable workarounds for XGPS170 ownship encoding problems
- Fix recording of GRT LPV GPS input in DEMO
- Prevent A/P LEVEL mode from changing the selected altitude if another screen's mode isn't LEVEL
- Fix flight plan timeouts with GPS units that don't send the RTE sentence frequently
- Fix the positioning of some graphics immediately above knob menus
- Fix weather/terrain status text covered by tapes on NORTH UP page
- Add support for new GPS/GNSS module
- Fix MSG button showing on pages that don't display alarms
- Fix heading average and rounding during TAS calibration
- Ignore extremely high fuel quantity from EIS
- Add setting to always ignore fuel quantity from EIS
- Add support for Adaptive AHRS
- SX 10c (2014-10-03)
- Add SVE AGL function to show height above ground based on Synthetic Vision database
- Add the ability to use the GPS attached to an ADS-B receiver as GPS1 or GPS2
- Wait 20 seconds before detecting transition out of in-flight mode based on speed
- Add button to limit alarms to only Oil Pressure and Fuel Pressure
- Don't reset alarm inhibits on transition to in-flight
- Add Enroute HITS. This version requires coordinates for the origin
and destination of the leg and draws boxes along the course between
them.
- Show TT22 boxes and buttons during DEMO playback when configured
- Record transponder code changes in the DEMO
- Add option to select between ETE and ETA for map destination box
- Fix delay in updating map cursor selections after changing range
- Show compass ring on the NORTH UP map
- Show tapes on NORTH UP map if enabled
- Fix automatic ILS inbound course when using SL30 OBS control and "When Selected" OBS output
- Fix inconsistent selected course displays and controls with respect to "Show GPS on Loc/GS" setting
- Fix clipped graphics in SLEW mode when map tapes are enabled
- Add ADS-B TFR's
- Add ADS-B call sign on traffic symbol
- Add optional screenshot trigger on 2nd power input
- Add more serial noise filtering for servos
- Add initial support for GRT LPV GPS as a GPS input
- Add individual TIT bar graphs and option to not show TIT bars with EGT bars
- Fix highlight of destination waypoint of internal flight plan when it's not in the database
- SX 10b (2014-08-22)
- Send VP-X system and device configuration over the display link
- Fix a software fault on the flight plan page when deleting some waypoints and then adding several more
- Fix selected altitude starting in 10's mode in A/P engage menu
- Fix regular menu appearing after selecting SAP runway
- Change old GOTO menu labels to direct-to symbols
- Fix Serial Port 3 defaults
- Fix help text for AHRS serial input alarm
- SX 10a (2014-03-04)
- Save the background PFD setting on the FLIGHT PLAN page
- Write a header for the USB Flight Data Logger if the file is empty
- Add EIS Volts to the USB Flight Data Logger
- Add separators in the Date and Time columns for the USB Flight Data Logger and give the system timer a dedicated column
- SX 10 (2014-02-17)
- Don't show no-data boxes from ADS-B if also showing a valid XM WX radar
- Fix bad identifier lookups when adding new identifiers with the User Database function
- Include new identifiers from User Database function in identifier searches
- Fix processing of validity flags in Aviation GPS format
- Fix airspace highlighting on NORTH-UP map view
- Improve handling of changes in menu options when settings are changed
- Add option for ETA in PFD user data boxes
- Enable SHOW METARS mode on all map pages
- Hide most extra databases in SHOW METARS mode
- Show alternate METAR/TAF range/bearing from selected airport and add configurable search limit
- Count and display the number of ADS-B ground stations from uplink data. TRAFFIC indicator changes to ADS-B #.
- Show full user Aux name when showing alarm abbreviation
- Fix visibility of Life Guardian settings without a Life Guardian model
- Update list of SV database titles
- Display map in SLEW mode using positions from the flight plan if a GPS position is unavailable
- Add support for remote Trig Transponder
- Only show WIND functions for supported inputs (XM WX)
- Add USB Flight Data Logger for continuous recording of a subset of data at a selected sampling interval
- Improve AHRS software loader
- Add baroset output option for ARINC
- Make synthetic vision horizon line thicker
- Allow the Jeppesen database to load into the whole EFIS as a system