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APM Planner 2.0.20 is released

Posted by Bill Bonney on March 19, 2016 at 11:00pm

Hi,

APM Planner 2.0.20 has been released. The main areas for change have been.

- Graphing improvements by ArneW, Ustramooner, AndreK

(Too many great things to mention, like real-time x-axis, labelling, stability, speed of loading)

- Support for Pixracer FW Updates

- AC3.4 Message Severity compatibility option.

- Windows and Linux 15.10 Build by DaveC - Thanks.

plus many more fixes...

Downloads are available at http://ardupilot.com and automatically from the UI.

Please report issues to http://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/ground-control-software/apm-planner-2-0

Enjoy

APM Planner 2.0 Devs.

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Comments

Randy Bachtell April 16, 2016 at 7:29pm

Thanks for your help Bill, I finally was successful in saving a workable file. Thanks for all the work on APM Planner, it's the best GCS I have used.
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Bill Bonney April 15, 2016 at 7:08pm

They are only text files, but you should right click (or control click) and select 'download file as' so they are downloaded without changing the contents.
Randy Bachtell April 15, 2016 at 6:11pm

http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Copter/latest/PX4-quad/

Here is the link, I have pulled firmware from here several times but for the last month or so--no love. The first time this happened Pavel from Zubax sent me a fix for UAVCAN and the new GNSS2. He sent me three different files before I got one that AP2 recognized and could upload. The first two came across as text files even though they had the .px4 file type. I'm seeing the same thing at work on a PC.
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Bill Bonney April 15, 2016 at 7:05am

can you post me the link you are using? more info is always better. I always 'roll my own' for custom FW, so it's not something i download.
Randy Bachtell April 15, 2016 at 5:26am

Thanks for the quick response Bill, this may not be the right group for my situation and I don't think I explained it very well. AP2 works just fine but if I try to download a firmware file from the DIY Drones site in order to use a particular custom build the file downloads as an HTML instead of a file that AP2 can use for upload. This has never been an issue previously but for the last month or so it persists.
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Bill Bonney April 14, 2016 at 9:26pm

@randy we do support from APM Planner 20 here http://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/ground-control-software/apm-planner-2-0

I'm not a 100% sure what you problem is I have just tested the AP2.0.20 and it seems to be working as expected
Randy Bachtell April 14, 2016 at 5:44pm

Firmware download issues. I am unable to download firmware from the DIY Drones download site. APM Planner downloads but all firmware comes as what think is an HTML file, an unbroken long page of text. This opens directly as a web page and not a downloaded firmware file. Firmware loads from APM Planner work but have not been successful with custom firmware.
Dave Carpentier March 29, 2016 at 12:37pm

Raspberry Pi 2/3 package for Ubuntu 15.10 @
http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/APMPlanner
benbojangles March 20, 2016 at 7:43pm

@Bill PPA is an interesting proposal:

For Ubuntu:

What are ppas and how do i use them?

How do I create a PPA?

So who's in charge of the Launchpad account? :)
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Bill Bonney March 20, 2016 at 6:30pm

You can try and install the deb file from http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/APMPlanner and see if it works. Or just install Qt and build it on the Pi. The trusty 14.04 deb 2.0.18 is built with Qt5.2.1

2.0.19+ is stated to require Qt5.4.2, but it can be built against older versions with a little change.

I think for linux we need to look at supporting a PPA