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7 Version 1.5 is a major release. It includes support for our new
8 EasyMega 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 EasyMega boards.
21 Make the APRS SSID be configurable. This lets you track
22 different rockets on the same receiver without getting
28 Report extra pyro channel continuity state on EasyMega and
29 TeleMega via the beeper. This lets you easily verify flight
30 readiness on these boards after powering up the electronics
36 Add lower telemetry data rates (2400 and 9600 bps) to
37 increase telemetry radio range. This reduces the amount of
38 data received as well as increasing battery consumption in
44 Change TeleGPS to have only a single log, and append new
45 data to it rather than using seperate per-flight logs. This
46 avoids accidentally filling up log storage by turning
47 TeleGPS on/off several times.
57 Increase the maximum range for altitude values from +/-32767m
58 to +/-2147483647m, allowing the flight computers to function
59 correctly above the 32km level.
64 Continuously test pyro firing conditions during delay stage,
65 inhibiting the pyro channel if the test fails. This prevents
66 firing pyro charges where the conditions were good before
67 the delay, but become bad before the delay expires.
72 Allow negative numbers in pyro configuration values. This
73 lets you specify things like descending speed or
80 AltosUI and TeleGPS New Features
84 Support telemetry baud rate selection. Adds menus to
85 the flight monitoring and configuration for baud rate
91 Support APRS SSID configuration.
96 Integrate with file managers. This provides icons for all of
97 our file types and associates our application with the files
98 so that using a file manager to open a AltOS data file
99 results in launching our application.
109 Make the 'Graph' button on the landed tab work again.
114 Make tests for Java on Windows a bit smarter, and also
115 provide the user with the option to skip installing Java for
116 cases where we just can't figure out what version is installed.