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Changelog
For everyone:
Pro changes:
Simulator)Building better testing tools
With new developments, testing by hand is no longer practical!
As a result, I've developed a Simulator which will do all the major testing from now on.
This post is just a show-and-tell because it's a fun tool.
Comprehensive Simulator / Test Harness
Testing now makes use of new Simulator capabilities, such as:
Major Features
Simulator, then sent to Jetpack via JSON linkOther Cool Stuff
More work to be done to move this set of work ahead but now much easier to test and re-test as changes get made to see what works.
Two draft message specs support the features below
Headline Improvements
Flight Log (new), with Channel Map and Tracker GUI changes
Flight Log and Flight Log by User
Flight Log supports recording (per-flight, all optional fields):
Channel Map
Tracker GUI
Channel Map and Login Account changes
Channel Map
Changes:
See Channel Map Help for details
Initial old channel flushing approach will be decided after a week or two to open up discussion
A new Admin-screen allows freeing registrations when a registration is: - 6+ months old, or - 3+ months old on a busy band (50% or more).
Because old registrations didn't keep track of the time they were made, the default is that migrated registrations "start now."
As in, nothing happens for at least 3 months.
If there's a desire from the group for speeding up the first opportunity for admins to free up registrations, that date can be brought in sooner.
Login Accounts
Changes:
See Login Accounts FAQ for details
Solar
There's a new page with a walkthrough using PowerFilm panels.
It's as simple and step-by-step guide that works, hopefully suitable for use in education or beginners.
Flying / Balloons
There's a new page with walkthroughs for:
They're simple and step-by-step guides that work, hopefully suitable for use in education or beginners.
Many changes across dashboard, messages, and other tooling
Messages
3 ET message types in draft (experimental/feedback) form:
New field encoding type for low-cost expanded value ranges
Slots
Slot renaming to from 1-5 to 0-4, too confusing as-is
Dashboard
2-3x faster load, esp on large datasets
Prettier load screen
Faster more responsive charts
Map has:
New dashboard Data Table Control layout and granularity
Future
Jetpack tracker
More graphs, map tweak, laps, and filtering insight
Graphs
Summary
Map
Filtering
You can now create and send custom messages (and more!)
Copilot Control makes makes these new features available, and the Enhanced Telemetry Dashboard will automatically graph and tabulate the data you send.
In addition to lots of documentation explaining the details, there is a Walkthrough that covers the basics in a front-to-back example.
This new functionality does not change the way you use Jetpack today.
Continue to use Jetpack as you have, and use the additional functionality if/when you like.
Maiden Flight
Here (link) is the maiden flight of the new system, using both a BME280 and BMP280, sending 2 custom messages within each 10 minute window, following Basic Telemetry.
I wanted to share some very interesting GPS data collected during the first flight of an Extended Telemetry UserDefind message set carrying GPS stats.
The results challenge some of my established beliefs about GPS performance relating to lock time. Some more epxeriments will shed more light on this.
The results have provided new insight and evidence into an ongoing mystery about why my tracker almost always has a 1-hour blackout period on initial launch before transmissions are received.
Summary