Hi Bdale or Keith,

I managed to build a companion board for my telemetrum based off the
documentation posted here:

http://altusmetrum.org/AltOS/doc/companion.html

I've confirmed with a logic analyzer it's actually doing the setup dance
and fetching data from my arduino board (I was actually pretty stoked to
get this far).

However, the companion telemetry does not show up in the AltoOS UI. I'm
running 1.4.1 on my telemetrum, but the latest AltOS. I took a look at the
source and it appears that companion support has been commented out  (see
line 72 of altoslib/AltosTelemetryStandard.java).

Looking at the release notes for 1.5 it says "Add lower telemetry data
rates (2400 and 9600 bps) to increase telemetry radio range. This *reduces
the amount of data received* as well as increasing battery consumption in
the transmitter."

Is this the reason it was removed? Is there any harm in adding it back? If
I upgrade my telemetrum do I also loose companion support at the device
level?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Rob
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