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This app provides a service to connect external bluetooth varios with the Paraglider Dashboard App.
If an external vario device is connected via bluetooth, the variometer of Paraglider Dashboard will show the rate of descent or climb based on atmospheric pressure rather than on GPS data.

Connection Setup

Select the vario device and pair it with your smartphone if not yet done. The app will try to connect and will show the current atmospheric pressure and the battery value in case of successful connection. That's all. This app is only needed once, for selecting the Bluetooth device. After that Paraglider Dashboard will automatically connect to the selected vario.

Hardware setup

This app does not support hardware configuration of the vario. Please use the app provided by the vario vendor, for this purpose.

Why a separate app

You may ask, why this function is not build-in directly into Paraglider Dashboard. The reason is, that users do not like to accept additional permissions, like e.g. bluetooth connection, especially if bluetooth is not needed for the majority of users. Having this app as an intermediary, Paraglider Dashboard does not need bluetooth permission, but can still connect to bluetooth varios.

How it works

The app installs a service which can be started and stopped by Paraglider Dashboard. The service runs only as long as Paraglider Dashboard is running. The task of the service is to read the pressure data via bluetooth and to send it to Paraglider Dashboard.