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- 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
- </p><p>
- AltOS New Features
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
- Add support for TeleGPS boards.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Change state beeping to "Farnsworth spacing", which means
- they're quite a bit faster than before, and so they take
- less time to send.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Make the beeper tone configurable, making it possible to
- distinguish between two Altus Metrum products in the same ebay.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Make the firing time for extra pyro channels configurable,
- allowing longer (or shorter) than the default 50ms. Only relevant
- for TeleMega at this time.
- </p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p><p>
- AltOS Fixes
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
- Fix bug preventing the selection of the 'Flight State After'
- mode in pyro configuration.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Fix bug where erasing flights would reset the flight number
- to 2 on TeleMega and TeleMetrum v2.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Fix u-Blox GPS driver to mark course and speed data as being
- present.
- </p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p><p>
- AltosUI New Features
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Add new 'Ignitor' tab to the flight monitor display for
- TeleMega's extra ignitors.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Increase the width of data lines in the graphs to make them
- easier to read.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Add additional ignitor firing marks and voltages to the
- graph so you can see when the ignitors fired, along with
- the ignitor voltages.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Add GPS course, ground speed and climb rate as optional
- graph elements.
- </p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p><p>
- AltosUI Fixes
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Hide Tilt Angle in ascent tab for devices that don't have a gyro.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Display error message when trying to configure maximum
- flight log size while the flight computer still has flight
- data stored.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p><p>
- TeleGPS Application
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
- New application designed for use with TeleGPS boards.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Shares code with AltosUI, mostly just trimmed down to focus
- on TeleGPS-related functions.
- </p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p><p>
- Documentation changes
- </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
- 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.
- </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
- Add a description of the 'Apogee Lockout' setting, which
- prevents the apogee charge from firing for a configurable
- amount of time after boost.
- </p></li></ul></div><p>
- </p></div></body></html>
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Release Notes for Version 1.4</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="am.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm45858957362192"></a>Release Notes for Version 1.4</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Bdale</span> <span class="surname">Garbee</span></h3><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:bdale@gag.com">bdale@gag.com</a>></code></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Keith</span> <span class="surname">Packard</span></h3><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:keithp@keithp.com">keithp@keithp.com</a>></code></div></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2014 Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard</p></div><div><div class="legalnotice"><a id="idm45858956544608"></a><p>
+ This document is released under the terms of the
+ <a class="ulink" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_top">
+ Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0
+ </a>
+ license.
+ </p></div></div></div><hr /></div><p>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</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_altos"></a>1. AltOS</h2></div></div></div><p>AltOS new features:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
+Add support for TeleGPS boards.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Make the beeper tone configurable, making it
+possible to distinguish between two Altus Metrum
+products in the same ebay.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Make the firing time for extra pyro channels
+configurable, allowing longer (or shorter) than the
+default 50ms. Only relevant for TeleMega at this
+time.
+</li></ul></div><p>AltOS fixes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
+Replace the <span class="emphasis"><em>dit dit dit</em></span> 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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Change state beeping to "Farnsworth spacing", which
+means they’re quite a bit faster than before, and so
+they take less time to send.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Fix bug preventing the selection of the <span class="emphasis"><em>Flight
+State After</em></span> mode in pyro configuration.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Fix bug where erasing flights would reset the flight
+number to 2 on TeleMega and TeleMetrum v2.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Fix u-Blox GPS driver to mark course and speed data
+as being present.
+</li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_altosui_application"></a>2. AltosUI Application</h2></div></div></div><p>AltosUI new features:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Add new <span class="emphasis"><em>Ignitor</em></span> tab to the flight monitor display
+for TeleMega’s extra ignitors.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Add additional ignitor firing marks and voltages to
+the graph so you can see when the ignitors fired,
+along with the ignitor voltages.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Add GPS course, ground speed and climb rate as
+optional graph elements.
+</li></ul></div><p>AltosUI fixes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Hide Tilt Angle in ascent tab for devices that don’t
+have a gyro.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Increase the width of data lines in the graphs to
+make them easier to read.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Display error message when trying to configure
+maximum flight log size while the flight computer
+still has flight data stored.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_telegps_application"></a>3. TeleGPS Application</h2></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
+New application designed for use with TeleGPS boards.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Shares code with AltosUI, mostly just trimmed down
+to focus on TeleGPS-related functions.
+</li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_documentation"></a>4. Documentation</h2></div></div></div><p>Documentation changes:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
+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.
+</li><li class="listitem">
+Add a description of the <span class="emphasis"><em>Apogee Lockout</em></span> setting,
+which prevents the apogee charge from firing for a
+configurable amount of time after boost.
+</li></ul></div></div></div></body></html>
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