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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Good job on the update. I like the new parameter screens.
Michael,
What do you think about idea for mission planning:
-User configurable limits for Distance and maybe for Flying Time when creating missions.
I know flying time estimation for mission is difficult, but maybe it's somehow possible. Idea is to get at least warning when those limits are exceeded and mission looks impossible.
For example I checked my logs and with my smaller battery i'm limited about 7min time and 3.5km distance with reserves for safety.
Regards Jani
Speed Guage, double click this and you can modify the max scale you want to display.
Why not with the Alt Guage as well? I rarely fly at 100m.
Thanks Michael,
The latest MP really is a thing of beauty!
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
Hello
I have a Ardupilot Telemtry Log (.tlog) and I want to extract data from the gyro and accel to a (.txt) file, is there any way of automatically doing this using APM Planner?
Best Regards
André Marques
RE: 7. Grid feature, this is excellent, looking forward to trying that out! Nice one chaps, keep up the good work!
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