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APM Planner 2.0 RC2 Update

Posted by Bill Bonney on January 10, 2014 at 7:30pm

Hi,

It's been a busy two weeks over the New Year, adding new features to APM Planner 2.0 and fixing some of the issues raised. The current changes include

Better handling of missions with Waypoint 0 being marked as the HOME location
Improvements to dataflash log analysis
Performance improvements to reduce CPU overhead
Extra GPS parameters viewable on the map as a overlay
Update to APM:Plane PIDs display
Layout corrections to APM:Rover
plus many other small fixes

Thanks for all the great feedback, more improvements to come

Download from here http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?category=35

Please ask questions here http://ardupilot.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=82

Please report issues here https://github.com/diydrones/apm_planner/issues

The AP2 Team

Have a great weekend

PS: Next release we will try and add autoupdates as this will be the best way to notify users of new changes

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Developer

Bill Bonney January 13, 2014 at 10:05am

@JM & CA: I've removed that warning message. The fix will be in the next release of AP2.
Jean-Marie PRIGENT January 13, 2014 at 2:49am

I've deleted my question from here and have a look on ardupilot forum.

Thanks !
3D Robotics

Chris Anderson January 12, 2014 at 7:27am

Bill: JM is just referring to these lines in the Messages Window, which we've talked about before. I know there's not meaningful errors, but if there is a way to suppress them from displaying, that would avoid user confusion.
Developer

Bill Bonney January 12, 2014 at 7:21am

@JM: please raise your tech questions here http://ardupilot.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=82 and if you explain what feature is not working we can look at a fix.
3D Robotics

Chris Anderson January 11, 2014 at 7:11pm

APM Planner 2.0 is a new GSC, which has ported the functionality of Mission Planner to the cross-platform QGC architecture. It's primarily used today for people who want a native Mac OSX or Linux solution.
david teles January 11, 2014 at 3:36pm

The same here in a 13inch macbook pro
Developer

Bill Bonney January 11, 2014 at 2:25pm

@Austin: What screen size are you using?
Austin Laws January 11, 2014 at 2:08pm

how do I increase the size of the Art Horizon? Mine is tiny like a slit. I drag down on the bar and it turns blue but wont increase???
Developer

Bill Bonney January 11, 2014 at 12:26pm

Both Mission Planner and APM Planner are open source projects, as long as they are both maintained, they'll be useful for the community. And this depends on how many people contribute and to which project. To ask the question is it a replacement: No, it's just a solution that meets some different requirements.

You now have a choice it which suits your application the best.
Jesus A January 11, 2014 at 11:52am

Congrats. Will try it later.
Will mission planner disappear after APM Planner becomes stable?