Comment by tycinis on August 13, 2009 at 5:12am

Very good Apps , the search work very well , the drag and drop works fine.

Comment by Bryan Cuervo on August 13, 2009 at 5:13am

Just played around with this on my laptop. This is great! I really like how we can now save our missions, including the com port and 328 board. Only problem I experienced was when I back spaced over the Alt (to hold) value to delete it and I got an error message.
Thanks

Comment by Nick Sargeant on August 13, 2009 at 6:11am

This is exactly what I wanted :D
Thanks for implementing the metres/miles thing I requested.
Unfortunately i cant get it to read write way-points. I get the "something is wrong message"
I fired up Jordi's version of the Config tool to check if the way-points had been updated but unfortunately they are the same ones I had before any testing.
If there is any more info i can give you just ask.
Nick

Comment by Paul Mather on August 13, 2009 at 7:02am

Bryan, I've got it fixed. Please download again.

Nick, I placed an order for new ArduPilots from Sparkfun yesterday. It's currently showing "Invoice Printed" so I suspect best case, I'll have it by Saturday.

I'm unable to do any testing of the read/write functions right now. But as soon as I get them, it's on the top of my "To-Do" list.

This latest version also saves your home location (instead of always defaulting to downtown Chicago) and your last search address in the registry.

For the person who asked about being able to import from Excel, this version has a VERY simple mission file format.

All you need is HOME:{lat},{long},{default alt} followed by all of your data points. If you don't include the 3rd variable on the waypoints, it will use the default alt as the assumed alt.

For Example:
HOME:41.879483,-87.624335,50
41.880362,-87.630858,50 <- Specified Alt
41.876176,-87.621589,200 <- Different specified Alt
41.876080,-87.629786 <- Unspecified (defaults to 50 from the HOME line)

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on August 13, 2009 at 7:57am

My experience with the read/write functions (both in Jordi's code and it Happy's) is that it's still a bit temperamental. A few tips:

1) Make sure your GPS isn't connected when you're using using the utility (avoid serial conflict)
2) Obviously the board has to be powered on
3) Sometimes when it says "something is wrong" after writing, it actually did write fine. Check by reading. If it won't read either, something really IS wrong.
4) Jordi suggests "writing" blank data (no waypoints) before using. I haven't found that to make any difference, but whatever.
5) Despite all of this, sometimes it works for me and sometimes it doesn't. I can't really figure out the whys and wherefores of this. Still investigating.
6) It is possible for EEPROM to get corrupted. If you've got an AVR programmer and AVR Studio, you can try clearing it manually.

Comment by Michal on August 13, 2009 at 9:50am

Great tool :). In my case I cant see Lat/Lon/Alt coordinates - only white frames without numbers (Vista here).
Michal

Comment by Paul Mather on August 13, 2009 at 10:19am

When you click on the map to add a waypoint, do any rows show up?

Comment by Michal on August 13, 2009 at 10:21am

Yes the empty frames. After a click I can see a new empty row.

Comment by Paul Mather on August 13, 2009 at 10:36am

No, what should happen is when you click on the map, a new row gets added to the grid on the left, a blue waypoint gets added and a line drawn between home and the new Waypoint #1. The lat, long and alt values should get plugged in to the grid on the new line. That doesn't work for you guys?

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on August 13, 2009 at 10:38am

Works great for me. Maybe worth putting a message in the blank waypoint area at startup that says "Click on map to add waypoints"?

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