They confirmed it worked with the 900 series.
I am sure it’s a great product but I was a bit annoyed that, with the lost freight back to the US, and a huge waste of time I was left out of pocket as they clearly hadn’t tested it with the EDM700.
Assuming the 700 is spitting out the data, in time they will probably modify the software to work with all of the JPI series
Gavin (the owner) at BlueMax then told me they had also tried on an EDM 700 but could not get it to work. That’s when I finally gave up. If the manufacturer of the device can’t get it to work it’s not worth wasting any more time!
Bloody hell.
This business is full of so many dicks.
It takes 10 seconds with a scope to see if RS232 data is coming out, and what the baud rate is. This outfit is pretending to be “making electronics”??
I am fairly sure I had configured the EDM700 to spit out continuous data. I tried all of the Baud rates & messed around for hours
Gavin (the owner) at BlueMax then told me they had also tried on an EDM 700 but could not get it to work. That’s when I finally gave up. If the manufacturer of the device can’t get it to work it’s not worth wasting any more time!
that’s true, and so is their documentation. From http://www.jpitech.com/manuals/01/ReadMeBeforeDownload3.pdf:
. EDM’s less than four years old are already set for 19,200. But if your EDM is around 4+ years old, be sure to change the baud rate on the EDM to 19,200.
would be good to known when that was written 
The advantage being, they will never change their formats and “specs”, so people like me can rely on them.
Hence I wonder why Archer-181 could not get it to work.
As to why not tell, these are 1980s avionics (along Shadin fuel totalisers) whose designer is long gone and probably dead. You can see the internals in the Avionics Internals thread – lots of good old late-1970s stuff 
I can’t tell and wouldn’t trust on that. OTOH why wouldn’t they tell, if it were true only for newer devices. Some other information (bitrate of the serial interface), they remark the difference between older and newer devices.
Is the above true for all EDM700/800 versions, all the way to day 1?
From the JPI FAQ (https://www.jpinstruments.com/FAQCategory/downloading/):
• Download in ‘real time’.
For the EDM-700/800 only: (Not able to do with 760 – no RECRD feature. )
1) TURN ‘RECRD’ TO ‘N’ (For NO.) * [see FAC LIM settings in Pilot’s Guide.]
2) HOOK TO ‘HYPER TERMINAL’ – 9600 BAUD RATE.
SENDS INFORMATION EVERY SIX SECONDS, COMMA SEPERATED VARIABLES – EVERY 50 LINES OR SO WILL SPIT OUT A ‘HEADER’
For me this isn’t really useful. Reading the EDM display in flight works well. And for post flight analysis I download via Bluetooth and the BlueEDM app.
Peter wrote:
It could be the constant data outpu
The EDM700 provides a constant data stream irrespective of any connected device. At least mine does. My brother found out by just listening to the output port. It’s plain ascii. You just have to guess the baud rate. He wrote some tool that converts the data snake into a table of understandable format. Every now and then a header is output where the columns are labeled.
That’s terrible.
Is there some criterion one can check on the EDM700? It could be the constant data output (whether present or not) or it could be something in the data.
I could have checked mine at the Annual in December but forgot. I have a hangar only once a year… rest of the time it is outdoors.
