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7 Version 1.1 is a minor release. It provides a few new features in AltosUI
8 and the AltOS firmware and fixes bugs.
11 AltOS Firmware Changes
15 Add apogee-lockout value. Overrides the apogee detection logic to
16 prevent incorrect apogee charge firing.
21 Fix a bug where the data reported in telemetry packets was
27 Force the radio frequency to 434.550MHz when the debug clock
28 pin is connected to ground at boot time. This provides a way
29 to talk to a TeleMini which is configured to some unknown frequency.
34 Provide RSSI values for Monitor Idle mode. This makes it easy to check radio
35 range without needing to go to flight mode.
40 Fix a bug which caused the old received telemetry packets to
41 be retransmitted over the USB link when the radio was turned
52 Fix a bug that caused GPS ready to happen too quickly. The
53 software was using every telemetry packet to signal new GPS
54 data, which caused GPS ready to be signalled after 10 packets
55 instead of 10 GPS updates.
60 Fix Google Earth data export to work with recent versions. The
61 google earth file loading code got a lot pickier, requiring
62 some minor white space changes in the export code.
67 Make the look-n-feel configurable, providing a choice from
68 the available options.
73 Add an 'Age' element to mark how long since a telemetry packet
74 has been received. Useful to quickly gauge whether
75 communications with the rocket are still active.
80 Add 'Configure Ground Station' dialog to set the radio
81 frequency used by a particular TeleDongle without having to go
82 through the flight monitor UI.
87 Add configuration for the new apogee-lockout value. A menu provides a list of
88 reasonable values, or the value can be set by hand.
93 Changed how flight data are downloaded. Now there's an initial
94 dialog asking which flights to download, and after that
95 finishes, a second dialog comes up asking which flights to delete.
100 Re-compute time spent in each state for the flight graph; this
101 figures out the actual boost and landing times instead of
102 using the conservative values provide by the flight
103 electronics. This improves the accuracy of the boost
104 acceleration and main descent rate computations.
109 Make AltosUI run on Mac OS Lion. The default Java heap space
110 was dramatically reduced for this release causing much of the
111 UI to fail randomly. This most often affected the satellite
112 mapping download and displays.
117 Change how data are displayed in the 'table' tab of the flight
118 monitoring window. This eliminates entries duplicated from the
119 header and adds both current altitude and pad altitude, which
120 are useful in 'Monitor Idle' mode.
125 Add Imperial units mode to present data in feet instead of