Steven Saner <[email protected]> writes: > I am a relatively new customer. I purchased a Telemetrum kit about 9 > months ago (through Apogee Components, if you're curious). I've flown it > now three times in a "level 1" class rocket to around 2000ft. It has > worked great so far.
Cool! And thanks for joining us here on the list. > First thing, I know that this "quirk" is mentioned in the manual. The > fact that, even though you configure the UI to use imperial units, you > still must enter your main deployment altitude in meters. We started out with an SI-only approach, and only about a year ago added the current level of support for imperial units. The in-built firmware user interface will only ever support SI units because there just isn't enough flash space to support options, but I don't see any reason that AltosUI couldn't be a bit friendlier here. I've entered this as enhancement request #95 for AltosUI in our issue tracking system. Thanks for mentioning it! > The second feature I would like to see, in the UI, is a configuration > setting to choose different formats for the display of the GPS > coordinate values. The degrees/minutes format is okay, but I have, for > an example, an iPhone app that I would like to use that only accepts > coordinates in degrees. I wrote a little perl script to convert them, > but it would just be nice to be able to select which format I want. Has > this ever been a consideration? We've certainly talked about GPS units at various times. I think we've all struggled with this at least once. Personally, my attention to this issue has waned since the introduction of the newer TeleBT ground station. When you couple that with an Android device that has a GPS receiver running AltosDroid, the whole issue of needing to copy GPS coordinates from AltosUI into another devices UI so that you can go find you rocket just goes away... it's pretty cool! I've put this in our tracking system as enhancement request #96. > I am certainly not above attempting these changes myself. That would certainly be awesome! Keith and I love patches for things like this... please feel free to come find us on the #altusmetrum channel on the OFTC IRC network if you want some quasi-real-time assistance with navigating the existing code, etc. > These minor things aside, I've had fun with the Telemetrum so far and > look forward to using it more. Great! Regards, Bdale
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