Is there a way to set or change the simulator home position?
ArduDeck Alpha 32.5 is out
A small release this time, focused on planning performance and a new pre-flight briefing.
New: Flight Info panel
A live briefing for any mission or survey, built from your vehicle profile:
- Flight time and battery count needed, with reserve on the final pack
- Distance, furthest point from home, altitude range and total climb against your ceiling
- Live site weather, with wind drawn as a compass and gusts shown as a percentage of cruise speed
- A daylight bar that tells you whether the flight lands before sunset
Mission planning performance
- Telemetry map no longer lags during live flight
- Large missions and surveys render much faster
- Waypoint markers reworked into clear start, end and key-command pins instead of plain numbers
Also
- Survey and Corridor are now one button with a dropdown for the pattern
release Release Alpha32-5 Survey Optimization · rubenCodeforges/ardudeck · GitHub
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Interesting… I went to that page but it was blank. I’m not on that computer right now, but when I get back to it tonight I’ll try again. I’ll post an issue on git if needed. Thanks!
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I think reserve should be applied to all packs.
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Hold that thought for the next release , im brewing something that should be very interesting for survey planning 
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Does ArduDeck support an easy-to-use mission resume during survey missions? If not, is such a feature planned?
A more or less automatic resume mechanism is a features that DJI’ pilot app or the USCG solves perfectly. It inserts a additional waypoint in case of an RTL and resumes exactly at this point after an battery change.
i dont see a big problem adding this feature, i just need to finish some other more requested and critical bugfixes. 
Guys small note regarding 32.5 , there was a failed build and therefor it did not contained the latest changes , the fix is simple , just redownload it Release Alpha32-5 Survey Optimization · rubenCodeforges/ardudeck · GitHub
@YupsUAV thanks for catching this one , cheers.
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What am I missing?
I also tried the update button (V.32) but it was the same as before that it didn’t recognize the latest version (V32.5).
Edit: Tried 32.5 and the sim page is stil blank.
Can you please open the console , see if there are any errors ?
Found it , your are not going insane and you are not missing anything , my fault , the new version will have the fix , its coming soon. Thank you for the finding.
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Alpha 33 of ArduDeck is out. This one came from a contributor who flies commercial surveys, and it focuses on the part of the job before the mission: drawing the area you want to cover.
What’s new
- Area Editor - a dedicated full-window map for survey areas and corridors. Draw areas as polygons, rectangles, or circles, draw corridors as a centerline with a swath width, add as many as the job needs. Cut
no-fly holes, split an area, grow/shrink a boundary by a margin in meters, and measure distance and area as you go. Import and export KML / KMZ / GeoJSON.
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Live flight briefing - covered area, flight distance and time, batteries needed, GSD, photo count, and data size, based on your active vehicle profile. Hectares/acres and meters/feet toggle that sticks.
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Send to mission - hands the planner exactly what you drew as survey groups, carrying the editor’s survey settings across (a corridor stays a corridor, no re-derivation). From there it is the full planner: tune, split into battery-sized sorties, check the terrain altitude profile, upload.
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Forecast wind overlay - animated wind across the telemetry map, mission map, and Area Editor, with altitude pills (10/80/120/180 m), a forecast scrubber, and a click-to-place wind rose. Open-Meteo data, no key.
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Quick Launch - pop the Area Editor, MAVLink Inspector, and Telemetry Dashboard into their own windows for a second monitor.
Full notes and screenshots: https://ardudeck.com/blog/ardudeck-alpha-33-area-editor/
Source / releases: Release Alpha33 Area Editor · rubenCodeforges/ardudeck · GitHub
Feedback welcome in any format.
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Some one asked for a Camera panel , done
comes in next release.
Also gues guys what the next release will be heavily about ?
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Great, can the swarm be tested in sim? Waiting for build to test.
In sim , in 3d world (whoops spoilers :D)
Sitl has now swarm spawner
synthetic view also support (svt)
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@codeforges Hi Ruben, I’ve created a subcategory for you - ArduDeck - ArduPilot Discourse , hopefully you enjoy the extra space over there as you gain traction with ArduDeck. Nice work.
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Thank you very much , i will be now ordering things properly !
Hello, I found that in the voltage fault protection, the voltage unit doesn’t match the actual value. It seems to be off by a factor of 10. Sorry, I don’t have a corresponding picture at the moment!
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