Hi everybody,
i thought i might do a post on some feature that most people may not know about. so here goes.
1. HUD, if you double click the hud it will popout, allowing you to run the hud full screen, on a seconds screen.
2. Tuning, if you enable tuning and double click tuning you can graph any data that is availbale in the status tab. this means you can have alt, attitude, or many other options. in real time.
3. Speed Guage, double click this and you can modify the max scale you want to display.
4. Nmea output to serial port, press control-g and you wil get a box asking for a comport and baud rate to output standard nmea data at 2 hz, to any serial port. ie use com2com to emulate a serial port to use with third party applications.
5. Custom imagery, press control-F this allows you to upload your own orthophotos. use will require Globalmapper, as this is currently one of the key steps in exporting in the required format for use in the planner.
6. Prefetch, this is on the flight planner tab and allows you to draw a box to download the selected imagery of a location, so you dont require internet while your at the field.
7. Grid, this is on the flight planner tab to, this allows you to draw a polygon (right click) and automaticly create waypoints over the selected area. NOTE there is no island detection, other advanced polygon features.
8. Setting your home location to the current location is easy, just click "Home Location" above where you enter your home location, and it will set your home location to the current coords.
Hopefully you find some of this useful.
Michael
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Great features :)
Is there a way to run Mission Planner in fullscreen ?? Would be nice to use all of my screen area for MP, since i have a rather small screen on my GCS.
Tommy
My friend is building a ArduCopter quadcopter soon and we want to use feature #4 (Nmea output to serial port) with a serial to serial USB adapter to get his quad to follow my quad with the 'Follow Me' feature. Could make for an interesting chase video :)
Hi Michael,
Is there a way to load more than 175 waypoints to the APM 1.X?
I see in the code that the space is calculades based on Memory addresses and space for fence.
I tried with a mission having 207 WPs. It completes the load but when read from APM to planner it stops in the 175 waypoint number and didn't present any point in the Mission Planner screen (missing the read WPs).
Also the Combobox for the "Set Waypoint" buttons doesn't allows to set the point 207 or other major than WP 128. I see too that the Distance>WP, when distance have 5 digits, the WP number is not presented entirelly.
regards,
Omar
Hi All, Another sugestion:
If APM is set to use throthel Fail safe, if it leaves out RC range, it engages RTL. If RC signal restores, APM is automaticaly set to the current mode from the switch mode. I forgot myself this behaviour 2 times.
Could I suggest to APM Planner to present some alert in case there are at least one mission point far away from home when the throtle fail safe condition is turned on?
regards,
Omar
Another suggestion:
An ACTION to command FLIGHT_TERMINATION.
MAVlink Packets like this could be used for those ones participating UVA Outback Challenge and are changing APM code for it ;-). Or to command the same IO pin the current APM code allows.
regards,
Omar
New battery Monitor suggestion:Monitor 2, 3 or 4 Batteries
Would it be possible to monitor up to 4 batteries?
For example, to use the AN1 for bat 3S, AN2 for bat 2S, AN3 for other bat 3S and AN4 for a Battery of 6S, each one, if necessary to use an AttoPilot sensor. The APM Planner Battery monitor screen would present a Drop box to choose what AN port is being used or a kind of combination AN1&AN2 = volts & amps for bat 1 whiles AN3&AN4= volts & amps for battery 2. HUD will have more info for batteries and Status the AN* current values. Don't how about logs and how about APM required changes for that. Anyway having that turns APM/Planner more flexible about battery usage if you have high power batteries for motor, other for autopiltots, redundancy.
regards, Omar
Hi, a question.
I was running 1.1.48 on this laptop, and clicking on "check for upgrades" had no effect.
Downloaded 1.1.55, installed it, and it seems to function correctly ?
In regards to #4. "Nmea output to serial port, press control-g and you wil get a box asking for a comport and baud rate to output standard nmea data at 2 hz, to any serial port. ie use com2com to emulate a serial port to use with third party applications.",
how can another program (written in Python, for example) and running on the same PC, get the NMEA data from Planner?
Great post by the way, thanks!
Dan
Hi Michael, there is a new suggestion:
- status in Configuration screen. Some times during PID configuration as well other parameter that requires tuning we, still in configuration screen for some time. Besides it is a configuration screen, by having some values like Altitude, Speed, GPS, Bat and "RSSI", will be great during that period while in the configuration screen.
regards,
Omar
I'm using a macbook pro and planner 1.1.13 and want to start using the HUD with FPV video behind it. I've turned it on and selected my built in camera to see how it works and now want to connect the output of my Duo5800 5.8GHz A/V Rx but I know I will need a video input device for the mac. Is there a preferred one for this type of video input? It's just a composite yellow cable. Would this work?
http://www.amazon.com/EZgrabber2-Capture-Uploading-Conversion-Gamep...
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