Hi everyone! I've got another update to iDroneCtrl ground station for iPhone and iPad. Along with our Apple MFi approved iDroneLink™ lighting accessory you can control your personal drone from your iPhone or iPad over the same long range datalink that ships with IRIS+ and many other compatible drones.
What's new in version 1.3.0:
- Audible low battery alerts
- Audible mission waypoint alerts
- Ability to disable audible alerts
- New settings screen and relocated radio config
- In app iDroneLink™ information
- In app support requests
We have received a lot of great feedback so far and we really appreciate it. Keep it coming :)
Comments
Taylor,
Thanks for the feedback. We have heard the request for a data dominated display, ie no map and big easy to read values that someone can quickly glance at, from a couple of users now. Its definitely on our list of things to look into. The more users that request it will help us move it up the priority list.
We have some ideas to allow new pilots to understand the data better, but your idea of a graphical display with the ground, legal ceiling, and drone is great. Thanks for the suggestion.
-dave
dave@fightingwalrus.com
Very cool product. However when I'm flying manually, I don't often use a top-down map. I'm more interested in data like altitude, current, voltage, velocity, signal strength, etc. With the map dominating the screen space, especially on an iPhone, that other information can be hard to see at a glance. Is there any chance you guys will implement a screen centered on this data, rather than the map?
On a related note, I think there is a lot of room to innovate new ways of displaying this data for people who aren't used to reading traditional cockpit displays or interpreting the raw data values. For instance graphically annotating the drone's current altitude relative to both the ground and the legal maximum ceiling might help new pilots understand their situation better that just giving them a number.
That's very nice!
Hey Nigel and Euan, we are just out of stock on the 433MHz version. We should have more of those in a couple weeks. If you sign up for our mailing is near the bottom of http://www.fightingwalrus.com we will for sure send out an email to the list when we have more of the 433MHz iDroneLinks ready to ship.
^^^ this. You're missing out on all those EU sales...