<surname>Towns</surname>
</author>
<copyright>
- <year>2010</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<holder>Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
license.
</para>
</legalnotice>
+ <revhistory>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>0.9</revnumber>
+ <date>18 January 2011</date>
+ <revremark>
+ Updated for software version 0.9. Note that 0.9 represents a
+ telemetry format change, meaning both ends of a link (TeleMetrum and
+ TeleDongle) must be updated or communications will fail.
+ </revremark>
+ </revision>
+ </revhistory>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.8</revnumber>
on Packet Command Mode for more information about this.
</para>
<para>
- The filename for the data is computed automatically from the recorded
- flight date, TeleMetrum serial number and flight number
- information.
+ After the device has been selected, a dialog showing the
+ flight data saved in the device will be shown allowing you to
+ select which flights to download and which to delete. With
+ version 0.9 or newer firmware, you must erase flights in order
+ for the space they consume to be reused by another
+ flight. This prevents you from accidentally losing flight data
+ if you neglect to download data before flying again. Note that
+ if there is no more space available in the device, then no
+ data will be recorded for a flight.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The filename for each flight log is computed automatically
+ from the recorded flight date, TeleMetrum serial number and
+ flight number information.
</para>
</section>
<section>
as needed to conform to your local radio regulations.
</para>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Maximum Flight Log Size</title>
+ <para>
+ This sets the space (in kilobytes) allocated for each flight
+ log. The available space will be divided into chunks of this
+ size. A smaller value will allow more flights to be stored,
+ a larger value will record data from longer flights.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ During ascent, TeleMetrum records barometer and
+ accelerometer values 100 times per second, other analog
+ information (voltages and temperature) 6 times per second
+ and GPS data once per second. During descent, the non-GPS
+ data is recorded 1/10th as often. Each barometer +
+ accelerometer record takes 8 bytes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default, 192kB, will store over 200 seconds of data at
+ the ascent rate, or over 2000 seconds of data at the descent
+ rate. That's plenty for most flights. This leaves enough
+ storage for five flights in a 1MB system, or 10 flights in a
+ 2MB system.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The configuration block takes the last available block of
+ memory, on v1.0 boards that's just 256 bytes. However, the
+ flash part on the v1.1 boards uses 64kB for each block.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configure AltosUI</title>
your local radio regulations.
</para>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Serial Debug</title>
+ <para>
+ This causes all communication with a connected device to be
+ dumped to the console from which AltosUI was started. If
+ you've started it from an icon or menu entry, the output
+ will simply be discarded. This mode can be useful to debug
+ various serial communication issues.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Flash Image</title>