Another day, another spectacular upgrade of the APM Mission Planner by Michael Oborne. Today's cool new features in v1.09 includes datalogging, so you can record your missions from the ground and replay them for analysis afterwards. No need to download logs from the board itself; just click one button and you can record as long as you want!
Also, speech synthesis is enabled. No need to watch the screen while your UAV is in the air--your GCS will speak to let you know about waypoints hit or other events. This is a lot like the similar feature in HK GCS except you can't define custom phrases yet they way you can in HK GCS (but at the pace Michael's going that will probably be in by next week!).
You can also set the interface to English or Chinese for the growing Chinese APM user group. Note that the manual has also been translated into Chinese, French and German, all by community members! Yay open source!
Just click update in the Mission Planner to upgrade to the newest version, or you can download it afresh here.
Comments
Ken: I think you're confusing the code bases. The code I'm referring to regarding our analytics on the donwnload page is the Arduino code, which works equally well on all platforms, including Linux. Aaron was referring to the Mission Planner, which is Windows-only.
But to answer your question, Linux represents between 3% and 4% of visitors to all the wiki pages, on all projects that we've measured. The highest percentage is on this site (diydrones), where it is 5%. But in all places where we can measure, Linux use is falling and Mac is rising.
Are there plans to make the APM planner work properly under Mono? It's a total mess right now. I'm happy to help debug it, although I haven't done any .net coding. Going back to 4.x versions doesn't seem to work, maybe because my firmware is too new for it...?