<title>The Altus Metrum System</title>
<subtitle>An Owner's Manual for Altus Metrum Rocketry Electronics</subtitle>
<bookinfo>
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- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
<author>
<firstname>Bdale</firstname>
<surname>Garbee</surname>
</section>
<section>
<title>TeleMetrum</title>
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- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="telemetrum-v1.1-thside.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="telemetrum-v1.1-thside.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
TeleMetrum is a 1 inch by 2¾ inch circuit board. It was designed to
fit inside coupler for 29mm air-frame tubing, but using it in a tube that
</section>
<section>
<title>TeleMini</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="telemini-v1-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="telemini-v1-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
TeleMini v1.0 is ½ inches by 1½ inches. It was
designed to fit inside an 18mm air-frame tube, but using it in
the board, meaning an ideal “simple” avionics bay for TeleMini
should have at least 9 inches of interior length.
</para>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="telemini-v2-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="telemini-v2-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
TeleMini v2.0 is 0.8 inches by 1½ inches. It adds more
on-board data logging memory, a built-in USB connector and
</section>
<section>
<title>EasyMini</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="easymini-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="easymini-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
EasyMini is built on a 0.8 inch by 1½ inch circuit board. It's
designed to fit in a 24mm coupler tube. The connectors and
</section>
<section>
<title>TeleMega</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="telemega-v1.0-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="telemega-v1.0-top.jpg" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
TeleMega is a 1¼ inch by 3¼ inch circuit board. It was
designed to easily fit in a 38mm coupler. Like TeleMetrum,
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>AltosUI</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="altosui.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
The AltosUI program provides a graphical user interface for
interacting with the Altus Metrum product family. AltosUI can
is split into sections, each of which documents one of the tasks
provided from the top-level toolbar.
</para>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="altosui.png" width="5.5in"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
<section>
<title>Monitor Flight</title>
<subtitle>Receive, Record and Display Telemetry Data</subtitle>
AltosUI will create a window to display telemetry data as
received by the selected TeleDongle device.
</para>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="device-selection.png" width="3.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
All telemetry data received are automatically recorded in
suitable log files. The name of the files includes the current
</para>
<section>
<title>Launch Pad</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="launch-pad.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
The 'Launch Pad' tab shows information used to decide when the
rocket is ready for flight. The first elements include red/green
</section>
<section>
<title>Ascent</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="ascent.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
This tab is shown during Boost, Fast and Coast
phases. The information displayed here helps monitor the
</section>
<section>
<title>Descent</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="descent.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
Once the rocket has reached apogee and (we hope) activated the
apogee charge, attention switches to tracking the rocket on
</section>
<section>
<title>Landed</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="landed.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
Once the rocket is on the ground, attention switches to
recovery. While the radio signal is often lost once the
graph window for the current flight.
</para>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Table</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="table.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
+ <para>
+ The table view shows all of the data available from the
+ flight computer. Probably the most useful data on
+ this tab is the detailed GPS information, which includes
+ horizontal dilution of precision information, and
+ information about the signal being received from the satellites.
+ </para>
+ </section>
<section>
<title>Site Map</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="site-map.png" width="5.5in"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
When the TeleMetrum has a GPS fix, the Site Map tab will map
the rocket's position to make it easier for you to locate the
.eeprom file containing flight data saved from
flash memory.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Note that telemetry files will generally produce poor graphs
+ due to the lower sampling rate and missed telemetry packets.
+ Use saved flight data in .eeprom files for graphing where possible.
+ </para>
<para>
Once a flight record is selected, a window with multiple tabs is
opened.
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Flight Graph</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- By default, the graph contains acceleration (blue),
- velocity (green) and altitude (red).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Configure Graph</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This selects which graph elements to show, and, at the
- very bottom, lets you switch between metric and
- imperial units
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Flight Statistics</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Shows overall data computed from the flight.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Map</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Shows a satellite image of the flight area overlaid
- with the path of the flight. The red concentric
- circles mark the launch pad, the black concentric
- circles mark the landing location.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
</para>
+ <section>
+ <title>Flight Graph</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="graph.png" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
+ <para>
+ By default, the graph contains acceleration (blue),
+ velocity (green) and altitude (red).
+ </para>
<para>
The graph can be zoomed into a particular area by clicking and
dragging down and to the right. Once zoomed, the graph can be
The right mouse button causes a pop-up menu to be displayed, giving
you the option save or print the plot.
</para>
- <para>
- Note that telemetry files will generally produce poor graphs
- due to the lower sampling rate and missed telemetry packets.
- Use saved flight data in .eeprom files for graphing where possible.
- </para>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Configure Graph</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="graph-configure.png" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
+ <para>
+ This selects which graph elements to show, and, at the
+ very bottom, lets you switch between metric and
+ imperial units
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Flight Statistics</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="graph-stats.png" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
+ <para>
+ Shows overall data computed from the flight.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Map</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="graph-map.png" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
+ <para>
+ Shows a satellite image of the flight area overlaid
+ with the path of the flight. The red concentric
+ circles mark the launch pad, the black concentric
+ circles mark the landing location.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Export Data</title>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configure Altimeter</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="configure-altimeter.png" width="3in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
Select this button and then select either an altimeter or
TeleDongle Device from the list provided. Selecting a TeleDongle
</section>
<section>
<title>Configure Pyro Channels</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="configure-pyro.png" width="6in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
This opens a separate window to configure the additional
pyro channels available on TeleMega. One column is
</section>
<section>
<title>Configure AltosUI</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="configure-altosui.png" width="2.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
This button presents a dialog so that you can configure the AltosUI global settings.
</para>
the current flight status. However, sometimes you don't want
to hear them.
</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Enable—turns all voice announcements on and off</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Test Voice—Plays a short message allowing you to verify
- that the audio system is working and the volume settings
- are reasonable
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Enable</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Turns all voice announcements on and off</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Test Voice</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Plays a short message allowing you to verify
+ that the audio system is working and the volume settings
+ are reasonable
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Log Directory</title>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configure Groundstation</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="configure-groundstation.png" width="3in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
Select this button and then select a TeleDongle Device from the list provided.
</para>
(self programming). Please read the directions for flashing
devices in the Updating Device Firmware chapter below.
</para>
- <para>
- For “self programming”, connect USB to the device to be
- programmed and push the 'Flash Image' button. That will
- present a dialog box listing all of the connected
- devices. Carefully select the device to be programmed.
- </para>
- <para>
- For “pair programming”, once you have the programmer and
- target devices connected, push the 'Flash Image' button. That
- will present a dialog box listing all of the connected
- devices. Carefully select the programmer device, not the
- device to be programmed.
- </para>
- <para>
- Next, select the image to flash to the device. These are named
- with the product name and firmware version. The file selector
- will start in the directory containing the firmware included
- with the AltosUI package. Navigate to the directory containing
- the desired firmware if it isn't there.
- </para>
- <para>
- Next, a small dialog containing the device serial number and
- RF calibration values should appear. If these values are
- incorrect (possibly due to a corrupted image in the device),
- enter the correct values here.
- </para>
- <para>
- Finally, a dialog containing a progress bar will follow the
- programming process.
- </para>
- <para>
- When programming is complete, the target device will
- reboot. Note that if a pair programmed target device is
- connected via USB, you will have to unplug it and then plug it
- back in for the USB connection to reset so that you can
- communicate with the device again.
- </para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Fire Igniter</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="fire-igniter.png" width="1in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
This activates the igniter circuits in the flight computer to help
test recovery systems deployment. Because this command can operate
</section>
<section>
<title>Scan Channels</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="scan-channels.png" width="2.75in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
This listens for telemetry packets on all of the configured
frequencies, displaying information about each device it
</section>
<section>
<title>Load Maps</title>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="load-maps.png" width="5.5in" scalefit="1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
<para>
Before heading out to a new launch site, you can use this to
load satellite images in case you don't have internet
TeleMega has overall dimensions of 1.250 x 3.250 inches, and
the mounting holes are sized for use with 4-40 or M3 screws.
</para>
- <mediaobject id="TeleMegaTemplate">
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="telemega-outline.svg"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject id="TeleMegaTemplate">
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="telemega-outline.svg"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
</section>
<section>
<title>TeleMetrum template</title>
TeleMetrum has overall dimensions of 1.000 x 2.750 inches, and the
mounting holes are sized for use with 4-40 or M3 screws.
</para>
- <mediaobject id="TeleMetrumTemplate">
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="telemetrum.svg"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject id="TeleMetrumTemplate">
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="telemetrum.svg"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
</section>
<section>
<title>TeleMini v2/EasyMini template</title>
TeleMini v2 and EasyMini have overall dimensions of 0.800 x 1.500 inches, and the
mounting holes are sized for use with 4-40 or M3 screws.
</para>
- <mediaobject id="MiniTemplate">
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="easymini-outline.svg"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject id="MiniTemplate">
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="easymini-outline.svg"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
</section>
<section>
<title>TeleMini v1 template</title>
TeleMini has overall dimensions of 0.500 x 1.500 inches, and the
mounting holes are sized for use with 2-56 or M2 screws.
</para>
- <mediaobject id="TeleMiniTemplate">
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="telemini.svg"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
+ <informalfigure>
+ <mediaobject id="TeleMiniTemplate">
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="telemini.svg"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </informalfigure>
</section>
</appendix>
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