IFD100 and iOS 15?

Could not connect my IFD100 to my panel mount IFD440 this morning.  Could connect the iPad to the WiFi, but the IFD100 would not connect to the IFD440.  Rebooted the IFD440 and shut the app off, tried again - no joy.  WiFi connects, app will not connect to panel.

Worked fine last week.  Since then, I updated the iPad iOS to 15.  That's been the only change to either the iPad or panel mount.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Yes, I can connect to regular WiFi and browse the Internet.

I have no idea how I would know if I have VPN client software enabled unexpectedly.  But I'm pretty sure I don't.  I can say that the VPN under Settings/General/VPN & Device Management is not connected.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I just updated the iOS to 15.0.1 and will try again.  Also, had another pilot report that they connected fine so it may just be me.  :)

I was in Melbourne this weekend at your hangar taking Gary Reeves IFD and Foreflight Courses. I talked to Mike Salmon about this issue. Went through the same issues. I actually attempted to connect to your demo unit you have set up but got a software mismatch error. You have 10.3 running on your demo, my IFD100 app is still 10.2, however, the fact it saw and attempted to connect was encouraging.

Anyway (short of a beta version of 10.3) is their anything I can do to make this work? After using it for the last few months I really miss it.

Claude Allen 

So went back to my IPAD 7 running IOS 15.01.02. Private Address is on this OS, so turned it of and....... Success, logged right on. Was able to run both Ipads at the same time.

This is running through my Levil BOM mounted on my wing. Also loaded and worked through the Stratus box.

Will try it in the air tomorrow.

Claude

 

Perhaps IFD100 thinks it's trying to connect to the IFD Trainer. I just tried to connect the iPad pro in question to a different iPad running IFD Trainer AviOS 10.3 (at home) and get the same message i did in the cockpit and posted above "IFD Version Mismatch"

While I do have the IFD Trainer installed on the iPad Pro, the trainer is not running. The trainer isn't running on the mini either (not sure it's installed).

Odd - perhaps I can try uninstalling the trainer on my cockpit iPads and see if that helps.

Other thoughts?

There was a mandatory service bulletin released in February 2019 to upgrade all IFDs running 10.2.0.0, 10.2.1.0, or 10.2.2.0 to 10.2.2.0.A to address the GPS rollover. 

I installed IFD100 on another iPad Air to validate. Here are results:

Panel IFD version 10.2.2.0

iPad Pro/iOS 15.0.2 IFD100 10.2 release 10.3 / Avidyne App version 10.2.9 VERSION MISMATCH

iPad Air/iOS 12.5.5 IFD100 10.2 release 10.3/ Avidyne App version 10.2.9 VERSION MISMATCH

iPad Mini/iOS 15.0.2  IFD100 release 10.2.9 / Avidyne App version 10.2.9 WORKS

Confirmed that on the mini that IFD100 is an earlier version even though the in-app version is same:

It looks to me like the Avidyne App version in settings for the Jeppesen Update Navigation Databases in the latest IFD100 AviOS 10.2 release did not get up sequenced to 10.3.0 to match the App Store  Version number. I believe that version number discrepancy is just "noise" and does not have any impact on your IFD100 AviOS connection problems. 

I'm running the IFD100 AviOS 10.2 App Store version 10.3.0 on a iPad mini 5th gen and a iPad Pro 9.7" (both iOS 15.1) paired with a panel IFD540 running AviOS 10.2.6.1 without issue. AviOS 10.2.6.1 was released well after April 2019 and has the GPS date rollover patch embedded in it. 

Just a hypothesis for what you're experiencing:

As Avidyne prepares for the release of AviOS 10.3.0.0, it will require a corresponding separate IFD100 AviOS 10.3 app release. I suspect this recent release of the IFD100 AviOS 10.2 app was enhanced to verify that it is working with current panel IFD AviOS 10.2 version (all AviOS 10.2 versions except 10.2.0.0, 10.2.1.0, and 10.2.2.0). I expect that IFD100 AviOS 10.3 will do the same check for panel IFD AviOS 10.3 versions. It appears we're setting up for the IFD100 AviOS 10.2 to not be compatible with IFD AviOS 10.3 and the IFD100 AviOS 10.3 to possibly not be backwards compatible with panel IFD AviOS 10.2.  

I suspect that since panel IFD AviOS 10.2.2.0 is not a current AviOS 10.2 version, the IFD100 AviOS 10.2 version check fails. When the IFD100 AviOS 10.2 version check fails, this may default to assuming the panel IFD must have been updated to a version of AviOS 10.3; hence the message and why it will not connect for you. The programmed IFD100 AviOS 10.2 version check may have been developed assuming there would not any panel IFD's still using any versions of AviOS 10.1.x.x, 10.2.0.0, 10.2.1.0, or 10.2.2.0; the AviOS versions that became obsolete after April 6, 2019.

I expect IFD100 App Store version 10.2.9 does not do the panel IFD AviOS check as it was developed over a year ago; long before the release of AviOS 10.3.0 was a near term possibility. That is why that version still connects for you.

.....or I could be way off.

Coordinating the update took longer than expected but happy to report updating the IFD440 to 10.2.6.1 in fact resolved all issues with connectivity from IFD100 10.2 release 10.3.

Thanks again for the help!