Comment by Paul Mather on November 23, 2010 at 1:11pm

Ric, what's UDB?

Johann, we were talking about Bill's UavDevBoard.... but Riccardo just sent me a data file. I'll see what I can do with that....

Comment by Johann Van Niekerk on November 23, 2010 at 1:31pm

Let me know if you come right with that data file if not PM me I may be able to help. and Happy are you planning other 3D models for the orentation view?

Comment by Paul Mather on November 23, 2010 at 1:35pm

Yes, I'd like to have a dozen or so. I just haven't had time to convert them.

Thanks Johann...

Comment by Brian Wolfe on November 23, 2010 at 1:42pm

Hey Happy,
Just wanted to let you know I added ArduPilot compatible TM messages to my PicPilot and things seem to be working pretty well with your GCS for the most part. No trouble installing or running on my XP desktop. Haven't tried my netbook yet.

I do have an issue after it's been running a few minutes where it starts to stutter and only update the display once every few seconds. I was wondering if it was some sort of buffer over run or something. I'm sending packets at a 20Hz rate with 2 out of the 20 being position packets and the remainder being attitude. Is that too fast??

Thanks for the excellent work! I noticed you posted the HDOP, Sats used and Fix extensions. I'll add those today and make sure they work.

Brian

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on November 23, 2010 at 1:51pm

Happy,

UDB = UavDevBoard

Ric

Comment by Paul Mather on November 23, 2010 at 1:58pm

Brian, depending upon the speed of your computer, you might want to mess with the "max" rates on the Serial Data tab. I suggest starting with Attitude at 5Hz, GPS at 2Hz and Waypoint at 1Hz. Then on the Settings tab, try changing the Max Update Rate to 1Hz. Then bump them up from there. At 20Hz update on Attitude, I doubt DirectX and GE will be able to keep up. At 5Hz, things are still pretty smooth...

Ric and sgt ric....sorry, brain fart. Yes, I am going to add UDB support. I'm a little overwhelmed right now. I'm moving the settings to another form, adding a splitter and an about page. have another APM to solder up to finish the APM binary messages sent from APM (not two-way).... I've got lots of work to do...

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on November 23, 2010 at 2:16pm

Thank you very much Happy ;D
Ric

Comment by Paul Mather on November 28, 2010 at 11:56pm

UDB support is ready for testing.

Developer Comment by Pete Hollands on November 29, 2010 at 11:54am

Happy,

Thanks for putting in the time to make the GCS work with MatrixPilot. That's super.

I ran up the latest zip file made in the last 12 hours with MatrixPilot (rev 712 from trunk) and SERIAL_UDB telemetry. The layout on the screen looks great. The GPS position worked fine The roll, pitch and yaw do not seem to be coming through. I know the formulas to convert the direction cosine matrix into euler roll,. pitch and yaw if that is of any help. Also happy move to one on one communications to test and debug.

Thanks again ! Pete

Comment by Paul Mather on November 29, 2010 at 2:30pm

Pete, if you can make heads or tails of what I need for pitch and roll, that would be great. So far, I've just been using imux and imuy as angles...is that wrong?

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