Date and time display on OSD using integrated OSD chip on F4 boards?

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Hi all,
Is there any way to display date and time on OSD if running arduplane on omnibusF4Pro board with GPS?

I tried to search and found that its possible on minim OSD.I even tried to search for date/time related parameter in OSD parameters but couldn’t find any.Please confirm.Thanks

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there is no such panel in ardupilot OSD as for now. we do have FLTIME though.

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Thanks basti for the confirmation. Should i submit a feature request then? :slight_smile: I think its useful when viewing your archived videos.

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i‘m working on a respective panel right now.

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PRs done: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/12495

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Thanks a lot Basti. Really appreciate it!!!

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thanks @ninja_zx11 my pleasure. trying to get the best out of my limited copy/paste-type coding skills. always a nice surprise if something i coded actually works :wink:

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it‘s in master now, thanks @tridge for merging!

so this will add a clock panel based on AP_RTC. this defaults to acquiring UTC from GPS.
you can set local timezone offset from UTC in +/- minutes (!) using parameter RTC_TZ_MIN. so where i live i‘d set this to 120, meaning UTC +2 hrs.
you might opt to choose other backends for RTC too, see documentation in AP_RTC library for reference.
as per default, it requires a GPS fix at least once to provide an UTC base, it will keep clocking through eventual GPS fix losses though.

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Awesome.

So will this panel add both date and time or just time?Thanks.

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Hi Basti.
Its working!! Nice to have a clock running in front of your eyes:) I used BRD_RTC_TZ_MIN to -420 as i am in pacific time zone and it looks good.

Now ignore my comment if you think i am asking too much:) Is it possible to add date(dd-mm-yyyy) too?Thanks for your work!!