Blogs

Congrats to the QGroundControl team who have just released version 3.5 of my fave GCS. Along with a lot of bug fixes, these are the new features:

• Overall
  • Added Airmap integration to QGC. OSX build only.
  • Bumped settings version (now 8). This will cause all settings to be reset to defaults.
  • Added Chinese and Turkish localization and partial German localization.
  • Added support for the Taisync 2.4GHz ViUlinx digital HD wireless link.
  • Fix loading of parameters from multiple components. This especially affected WiFi connections.
  • ArduPilot Support for ChibiOS firmware connect and flash.
• Settings
  • RTK Add support for specifying fixed RTK based station location in Settings/General.
  • GCS Location
    • Added UDP Port option for NMEA GPS Device.
    • GCS heading shown if available
• Plan
  • Polygons Support loading polygons from SHP files.
  • Fixed Wing Landing Pattern Add stop photo/video support. Defaults to on such that doing an RTL will stop camera.
  • Edit Position dialog Available on polygon vertices.
• Fly
  • Camera Page Updated support for new MAVLInk camera messages. Camera select, camera mode, start/stop photo/video, storage mangement...
  • Orbit Support for changing rotation direction.
  • Instrument Panel
    • Added ESTIMATOR_STATUS values to new estimatorStatus Vehicle FactGroup. These are now available to display in instrument panel.
    • Make Distance to GCS available for display from instrument panel.
    • Make Heading to Home available for display from instrument panel.