Version 1.1 is a minor release. It provides a few new features in AltosUI
and the AltOS firmware and fixes bugs.
AltOS Firmware Changes
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Add apogee-lockout value. Overrides the apogee detection logic to
prevent incorrect apogee charge firing.
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Fix a bug where the data reported in telemetry packets was
from 320ms ago.
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Force the radio frequency to 434.550MHz when the debug clock
pin is connected to ground at boot time. This provides a way
to talk to a TeleMini which is configured to some unknown frequency.
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Provide RSSI values for Monitor Idle mode. This makes it easy to check radio
range without needing to go to flight mode.
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Fix a bug which caused the old received telemetry packets to
be retransmitted over the USB link when the radio was turned
off and back on.
AltosUI Changes
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Fix a bug that caused GPS ready to happen too quickly. The
software was using every telemetry packet to signal new GPS
data, which caused GPS ready to be signalled after 10 packets
instead of 10 GPS updates.
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Fix Google Earth data export to work with recent versions. The
google earth file loading code got a lot pickier, requiring
some minor white space changes in the export code.
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Make the look-n-feel configurable, providing a choice from
the available options.
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Add an 'Age' element to mark how long since a telemetry packet
has been received. Useful to quickly gauge whether
communications with the rocket are still active.
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Add 'Configure Ground Station' dialog to set the radio
frequency used by a particular TeleDongle without having to go
through the flight monitor UI.
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Add configuration for the new apogee-lockout value. A menu provides a list of
reasonable values, or the value can be set by hand.
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Re-compute time spent in each state for the flight graph; this
figures out the actual boost and landing times instead of
using the conservative values provide by the flight
electronics. This improves the accuracy of the boost
acceleration and main descent rate computations.
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Make AltosUI run on Mac OS Lion. The default Java heap space
was dramatically reduced for this release causing much of the
UI to fail randomly. This most often affected the satellite
mapping download and displays.
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Change how data are displayed in the 'table' tab of the flight
monitoring window. This eliminates entries duplicated from the
header and adds both current altitude and pad altitude, which
are useful in 'Monitor Idle' mode.
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Add Imperial units mode to present data in feet instead of
meters.