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- <para>
- Version 1.4 is a major release. It includes support for our new
- TeleGPS product, new features and bug fixes in in the flight
- software for all our boards and the AltosUI ground station
- </para>
- <para>
- AltOS New Features
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add support for TeleGPS boards.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Replace the 'dit dit dit' tones at startup with the current
- battery voltage, measured in tenths of a volt. This lets you
- check the battery voltage without needing telemetry, which
- is especially useful on EasyMini.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Change state beeping to "Farnsworth spacing", which means
- they're quite a bit faster than before, and so they take
- less time to send.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make the beeper tone configurable, making it possible to
- distinguish between two Altus Metrum products in the same ebay.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make the firing time for extra pyro channels configurable,
- allowing longer (or shorter) than the default 50ms. Only relevant
- for TeleMega at this time.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- AltOS Fixes
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix bug preventing the selection of the 'Flight State After'
- mode in pyro configuration.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix bug where erasing flights would reset the flight number
- to 2 on TeleMega and TeleMetrum v2.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix u-Blox GPS driver to mark course and speed data as being
- present.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- AltosUI New Features
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add zooming and new content types (terrain and road maps) to
- map view. Change map storage format from PNG to Jpeg, which
- saves a huge amount of disk space. You will need to
- re-download all of your pre-loaded map images.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add a distance measuring device to the maps view. Select
- this by using any button other than the left one, or by
- pressing shift or control on the keyboard while using the
- left button.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add new 'Ignitor' tab to the flight monitor display for
- TeleMega's extra ignitors.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Increase the width of data lines in the graphs to make them
- easier to read.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add additional ignitor firing marks and voltages to the
- graph so you can see when the ignitors fired, along with
- the ignitor voltages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add GPS course, ground speed and climb rate as optional
- graph elements.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- AltosUI Fixes
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When flashing new firmware, re-try opening the device as
- sometimes it takes a while for the underlying operating
- system to recognize that the device has rebooted in
- preparation for the flashing operation.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Hide Tilt Angle in ascent tab for devices that don't have a gyro.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Filter out speed and acceleration spikes caused by ejection
- charge firing when computing the maximum values. This
- provides a more accurate reading of those maximums.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix EasyMini voltage displays. Early EasyMini prototypes
- used a 3.0V regulator, and AltosUI still used that value as
- the basis of the computation. Production EasyMini boards
- have always shipped with a 3.3V regulator. Also, purple
- EasyMini boards sensed the battery voltage past the blocking
- diode, resulting in a drop of about 150mV from the true
- battery voltage. Compensate for that when displaying the
- value.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Display error message when trying to configure maximum
- flight log size while the flight computer still has flight
- data stored.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Handle TeleMetrum and TeleMini eeprom files generated with
- pre-1.0 firmware. Those ancient versions didn't report the
- log format, so just use the product name instead.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- TeleGPS Application
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- New application designed for use with TeleGPS boards.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Shares code with AltosUI, mostly just trimmed down to focus
- on TeleGPS-related functions.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- Documentation changes
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Re-create the drill template images; they should print
- correctly from Firefox at least. Ship these as individual
- PDF files so they're easy to print.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add a description of the 'Apogee Lockout' setting, which
- prevents the apogee charge from firing for a configurable
- amount of time after boost.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
-</article>
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