Jesse Frey <[email protected]> writes:

> The companion interface seems to be an underutilized feature of Altus
> Metrum products. And I understand if most of these will not be
> addressed.
>
> 1) It seems that AltosDroid does not support displaying companion
> telemetry. Is there any plans do add this in the future?

I don't have any plans; we don't have any active development of
companion boards ourselves, which makes doing any work with the protocol
somewhat difficult.

> 2) The lack of channel names, units and scaling makes reading the
> values from the companion tab nontrivial. Would it be possible to add
> configuration files for companion boards? I'm thinking something with
> the Name of the board and ID and then a channel list with names, units
> and simple slope offset scaling.

Sure; either that or stuff them into the existing AltosUI configuration bits.

> 3) Are there plans to enable the sending of data to the companion from
> the ground station? This would be super useful for configuration of
> companion boards without opening up the rocket

Nope, we're not really doing any active work with companion boards, but
we're happy to review changes and help make your stuff work.

-- 
-keith

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