first of all, I would like to thank everyone who is putting their spare time in developing the hard and software for the APM.
After reading the manual and installing tourtoise, I was able to check out (http://ardupilot-mega.googlecode.com/svn/Sketchbook/trunk) a copy of the software (like 2 weeks ago) and was able to compile and upload to the board. First debug tests (changed in the config file) were ok.
Then I ordered an MTK GPS although I had 2 of them lying around (original 406 and LS..31) because it seems that the ublox and MTK are supported best.
So yesterday I checked out the SVN again (update), and tried to compile (nothing changed in config). Result in IDE:
...\apm_svn\libraries\FastSerial\/FastSerial.h:56:20: error: Stream.h: No such file or directory
...\apm_svn\libraries\FastSerial\/FastSerial.h:89: error: expected class-name before '{' token
...\apm_svn\libraries\FastSerial\/FastSerial.h:109: error: 'Stream' has not been declared
It seems like a problem with linux/unix conversion (slash instead of backslash in the path, as well as fastserial.h not beeing converted to windows ascii)
(downloading the .zip file and libraries directly is OK, and compiles, but MTK seems not to be supported: a compile with MTK selected goes wrong)
Questions:
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1. How do I check out a working copy of the software which supports MTK GPS ?
2. Will that Version then also support X-Plane (this will be my next test) ? I seem to remember Doug telling not to activate xplane gcs.
3. Is there a way to visualize log data from the board?
TIA
Peter
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ive written a program that download the log data and converts the GPS part into a google earth KML have a look here http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/apm-mission-planner-now
you need to set the GPS to IMU and ground station to 3, once you have done that you need to modify the GPS library AP_GPS to include the imu header file.... which for some reason doesn't
Ive been running that latest build on xplanes for a bit now, and seem to come across a bug when flying due north, need to investegate further.