On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:34 AM Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
This makes a lot of sense however, I do mostly like to use the app at the field. If you did have hardware would you consider updating this? or is this kind of an unmaintained feature that you don't have any plans to pick up? > > > 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. I guess I'm not super sure how the existing config bits work. Come to think of it, I'm not 100% sure where the config files are stored... > > > 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. I guess I'd have to look closer at the firmware. It doesn't sound horribly hard, I'd have to think about how the command would work. I've never thought about playing with the firmware on the TeleMetrum, how easy is it to fix if I load bad firmware? Would it be good to have a programmer? or can I recover with the USB interface? > > -- > -keith _______________________________________________ altusmetrum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum
