Altus Metrum announces AltOS 1.6 with TeleDongle v3.0 Our updated ground station, TeleDongle v3.0, works just like the original TeleDongle, but is an all-new design:
* CC1200 radio chip is about 5dB more sensitive than TeleDongle's CC1111. * LPC11U14 CPU can be reprogrammed over the USB link. Bug fixes in the AltOS firmware: * Make sure the startup flight computer beeps are consistent. Sometimes, it was taking long enough to beep out the battery voltage that the flight computer state was changing in the middle, causing a bit of confusion. * Change TeleDongle's LED indicators during telemetry reception. The green LED blinks on successful packet reception, and the red LED blinks when a packet with an invalid checksum is received. * The SPI driver used in both TeleDongle v3 and TeleGPS has been rewritten to avoid locking up under heavy CPU load. If you've got a TeleGPS board, you'll want to reflash with new firmware. New features in AltOS for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows: A few minor new features are in this release * AltosUI can now compute and display tilt angle when graphing eeprom log data from TeleMega and EasyMega. * The AltosUI tool window is shown when starting with a data file. This way, when you double-click on a file in the file manager, you'll get the whole AltosUI interface, rather than just the graphing window. * At the end of replaying an old log file, stick 'done' in the Age field so you can tell the recording is over. And a few bug fixes in AltOS, mostly for Windows: * Use a different Windows API to discover USB device ids. This works better on my new HP Windows 7 machine. Maybe it will work better for other people too? * Look in more places in the Windows registry to try and find the installed Java version. It appears that the default Java download from Oracle is a 32-bit version? In any case, that version sticks its install information in a different spot in the registry. * Fix file associations on Windows when Java isn't installed in the system root. * Make 'Scan Channels' work better with new AltOS firmware which only reports device configuration information once ever five seconds. ` You can read more about this release on the AltOS web page: http://altusmetrum.org/AltOS/ Altus Metrum products are available from our distributors Apogee Components, Bay Area Rocketry, and Chris' Rocket Supplies in the US; Australian Rocketry; Rebel Space in the Netherlands; Sierra Fox Hobbies in Italy; and Aerospace Education in New Zealand. Or you can order directly from Bdale's web store at: http://shop.gag.com All Altus Metrum products are completely open hardware and open source. The hardware design details and all source code are openly available for download, and advanced users are invited to join our developer community and help to enhance and extend the system. You can learn more about Altus Metrum products at http://altusmetrum.org. Thank you all for your continuing support of Altus Metrum, and we hope to see you on the flight line! Bdale and Keith _______________________________________________ altusmetrum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum
