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APM Planner 2.0.13 released (was 2.0.12/11 released)

Posted by Bill Bonney on July 14, 2014 at 5:00pm

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NOTE: Parameter settings was also broken. Next release we will also have 'beta' releases so we can avoid these simple mistakes getting into stable releases, and if you are so inclined, can help us test before release.

2.0.13 improves connectivity with bluetooth devices as well. :-) Thx for all the reports so far on these issues. You can always try the daily builds if you like to experiment see http://firmware.diydrones.com/Tools/APMPlanner/daily/

NOTE: auto tlogging was broken, so we have pushed a minor update to fix the issue. There are some other small changes as well, see the release notes for more info 

Happy Independence Day for those in the US.

A new release of APM Planner 2.0.13 is available.

In this release we have

  • Upload to Droneshare
    • You can now upload logs to Droneshare from the Graph View.
  • Support for APM Mission Planning commands
    • All APM specific commands are supported. (excludes ROI, but you can add with Mission Other command)
  • Mission Elevation Display.
    • You can now see the elevation profile and compare against the terrain based on the Google map data
  • Rework of serial port handling.
    • New improvements in stability of serial port handling including bluetooth support.
  • Update improvements
  • Mission Editing performance issues (deleting 119 waypoints down from 10mins to 17secs)
  • Graph View now show mode changes with text for bin/tlog/log file formats.
  • Support for Ubuntu 14.04LTS (Trusty Tahir) builds (coming Monday, see preview here (It's identical except the version reports as 2.0.10)  (Trusty Tahir builds are now ready see here)

and many many more fixes... download here http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?category=35

Enjoy

The AP2 Team

PS: Users will be notified automatically if you have installed a previous build of AP2.

Tags: 20, ap2, apm, editing, gcs, mission, planner
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  • Michael Carpenter July 11, 2014 at 8:53pm

    Previous versions are available here: http://firmware.diydrones.com/Tools/APMPlanner/

    Can you submit a bug report detailing the issues you're having, or at the least upload your log files somewhere for us to look at? Hopefully we can figure out your issue and get you back up and running with the new version.

  • Craig P. July 11, 2014 at 6:22pm

    Anyone know where to get the previous version of apm planner, all the installation did of this new one was completely mess everything up, I can no longer get any form of connection as a result, where the previous version worked flawless?

  • Developer
    Bill Bonney July 11, 2014 at 12:00pm

    Currently you need to be connected to a UAV. We can fix that in the next release.

  • Ted Morgan July 10, 2014 at 9:37am

    Mission Elevation widget doesn't seem to do anything.  Nothing happens when trying to map the elevation of a mission I have plotted.  Am I missing something?

  • Developer
    Bill Bonney July 10, 2014 at 7:39am
    A fix for tlog support is in these builds. http://firmware.diydrones.com/Tools/APMPlanner/daily/2014-07-09/
    We will push a 2.0.12 build tomorrow that fixes tlog saving tomorrow.
  • Michael Carpenter July 9, 2014 at 9:08am

    TLogs are not being generated in 2.0.11 as noted here: https://github.com/diydrones/apm_planner/issues/397

    A fix will be available as a daily build soon.

  • Simon Wunderlin July 9, 2014 at 6:21am

    Thanks Michael. The main download page only lists an Ubuntu download which lead me to the impression it's the only one deb. Now that I checked again I see a debian x64 download which I should have used.

  • Michael Carpenter July 9, 2014 at 4:17am

    Simon Wunderlin: You're using the latest_debian installer?(http://firmware.diydrones.com/Tools/APMPlanner/apm_planner2_latest_...) It should not require anything that is not included in debian stable, if it is I will look into it fixing that.

  • Simon Wunderlin July 8, 2014 at 11:06am

    Hi Bill, thanks for the update!

    I am on Debian stable (wheezy 7). libc6 is at version 2.13, 2.15 required for this update.

    It seems to be simple and safe to upgrade to libc6 from testing (2.19). 

    • shut down X
    • add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "stable";
    • Then add the following repos to /etc/apt/sources.list (you might want to use your mirror):
        deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
        deb-src http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
    • # apt-get update
    • # apt-get -t testing install libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dbg
    • # reboot

    Done

    Index of /ftp/mirror/debian
  • Distributor
    Dany Thivierge July 7, 2014 at 7:11pm

    well if I am not mistaking it is a function that was done on the droidplanner for android to use the tlogs to alway indicate last known location (and log it in a timeline form) so at any moment you can click on that position and launch a "locator" type of function that will indicate you the way to that point.  Very useful when you lose your copter in a crop field.... 

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