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7/4/2022 7:36 PM
 

My 740b will not connect to my dual band network even when I pause the 5 ghz signal. I'm on a eero mesh network if that makes any difference.

Any guidance?

 
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7/4/2022 10:49 PM
 

All of the iFly dedicated hardware (700, 720, 740, 740b) is kinda flaky re: wifi when you move them around to different networks, like taking the device from your home wifi to the plane's ADSB device wifi and back home, or trying to connect to an FBO or hotel wifi while traveling, etc.

You kind of have two options:  Always delete any previously-stored network credentials (wifi passwords) before trying to log into a different wifi, or else don't try to use the device on multiple networks--let it remember the credentials for a single network (like the one in your plane), and only ever let it attach to that network.

I recommend the second:  Just limit yourself to only ever connecting the 740b to you're plane's ADSB wifi network.  That's kind of a bummer, but since the iFly devices don't really do well for any use other than as GPS navigators (they're lousy at browsing the web, you can't watch YouTube or Netflix, you can't run Kindle, etc.), and since it's easy to pop the SD card out and update it on a Windows laptop or PC using iFly Connect, I found it really wasn't too hard to live with that limitation.

 
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7/5/2022 9:21 AM
 
Cobra wrote:

All of the iFly dedicated hardware (700, 720, 740, 740b) is kinda flaky re: wifi when you move them around to different networks, like taking the device from your home wifi to the plane's ADSB device wifi and back home, or trying to connect to an FBO or hotel wifi while traveling, etc.

You kind of have two options:  Always delete any previously-stored network credentials (wifi passwords) before trying to log into a different wifi, or else don't try to use the device on multiple networks--let it remember the credentials for a single network (like the one in your plane), and only ever let it attach to that network.

I recommend the second:  Just limit yourself to only ever connecting the 740b to you're plane's ADSB wifi network.  That's kind of a bummer, but since the iFly devices don't really do well for any use other than as GPS navigators (they're lousy at browsing the web, you can't watch YouTube or Netflix, you can't run Kindle, etc.), and since it's easy to pop the SD card out and update it on a Windows laptop or PC using iFly Connect, I found it really wasn't too hard to live with that limitation.

^^^ this is the correct answer.

 
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7/5/2022 9:25 AM
 

I would agree with you but I would like to be able to share flight plans between devices and update it on the fly. I've always been a Mac user but I bought a used Windows machine so I could use iFly Connect at home. It doesn't help much on the road however. 

 
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7/5/2022 10:50 PM
 

Don't know what else to tell you.  It is what it is.  This has been an issue with the dedicated iFly hardware since the 720 was released 10 years ago in 2012.  I'm afraid the two options I suggested are the only workarounds you've got.

When you say "share flight plans between devices and update them on the fly", could you be more specific?  If you're talking about sharing between devices that will be in the same plane, that's easy to do once they're all connected to the same ADSB wifi network.  On the source device, choose Flight Plan > More Options > Share with Local Devices... > Share Plan, then look on the other device(s) on the network and click "OK" when prompted that a shared flight plan is available.  Checking the "Auto-Share Changes" option on the source device when you share the plan will ensure that any changes to the fligth plan made on the source will automatically get pushed out to the other device(s) on the network.

 
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