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7 Version 1.4 is a major release. It includes support for our new
8 TeleGPS product, new features and bug fixes in in the flight
9 software for all our boards and the AltosUI ground station
16 Add support for TeleGPS boards.
21 Replace the 'dit dit dit' tones at startup with the current
22 battery voltage, measured in tenths of a volt. This lets you
23 check the battery voltage without needing telemetry, which
24 is especially useful on EasyMini.
29 Change state beeping to "Farnsworth spacing", which means
30 they're quite a bit faster than before, and so they take
36 Make the beeper tone configurable, making it possible to
37 distinguish between two Altus Metrum products in the same ebay.
42 Make the firing time for extra pyro channels configurable,
43 allowing longer (or shorter) than the default 50ms.
53 Fix bug preventing the selection of the 'Flight State After'
54 mode in pyro configuration.
59 Fix bug where erasing flights would reset the flight number
60 to 2 on TeleMega and TeleMetrum v2.
65 Fix u-Blox GPS driver to mark course and speed data as being
76 Add zooming and new content types (terrain and road maps) to
77 map view. Change map storage format from PNG to Jpeg, which
78 saves a huge amount of disk space. You will need to
79 re-download all of your pre-loaded map images.
84 Add a distance measuring device to the maps view. Select
85 this by using any button other than the left one, or by
86 pressing shift or control on the keyboard while using the
92 Add new 'Ignitor' tab to the flight monitor display for
93 TeleMega's extra ignitors.
98 Increase the width of data lines in the graphs to make them
104 Add additional ignitor firing marks and voltages to the
105 graph so you can see when the ignitors fired, along with
106 the ignitor voltages.
111 Add GPS course, ground speed and climb rate as optional
122 When flashing new firmware, re-try opening the device as
123 sometimes it takes a while for the underlying operating
124 system to recognize that the device has rebooted in
125 preparation for the flashing operation.
130 Hide Tilt Angle in ascent tab for devices that don't have a gyro.
135 Filter out speed and acceleration spikes caused by ejection
136 charge firing when computing the maximum values. This
137 provides a more accurate reading of those maximums.
142 Fix EasyMini voltage displays. Early EasyMini prototypes
143 used a 3.0V regulator, and AltosUI still used that value as
144 the basis of the computation. Production EasyMini boards
145 have always shipped with a 3.3V regulator. Also, purple
146 EasyMini boards sensed the battery voltage past the blocking
147 diode, resulting in a drop of about 150mV from the true
148 battery voltage. Compensate for that when displaying the
154 Display error message when trying to configure maximum
155 flight log size while the flight computer still has flight
161 Handle TeleMetrum and TeleMini eeprom files generated with
162 pre-1.0 firmware. Those ancient versions didn't report the
163 log format, so just use the product name instead.
173 New application designed for use with TeleGPS boards.
178 Shares code with AltosUI, mostly just trimmed down to focus
179 on TeleGPS-related functions.
185 Documentation changes
189 Re-create the drill template images; they should print
190 correctly from Firefox at least. Ship these as individual
191 PDF files so they're easy to print.
196 Add a description of the 'Apogee Lockout' setting, which
197 prevents the apogee charge from firing for a configurable
198 amount of time after boost.