Follow-me arducopter

anbello · November 4, 2018, 4:15pm

Is it open source? It should be from the moment that is entirely based on Tower that is open source.

dcolemans · November 4, 2018, 6:01pm

I’m very glad that Follow Me is fixed. Thank you kind developer(s).

But I was rather hoping that reporting of altitude would be changed on the UI from the unhandy Alt above sea level to Alt relative to arming. I realize that it’s the 3.6 firmware that changed what it’s sending in the telemetry, but could there a way to have the Android software figure out and report relative Alt as an option?

peterbarker · November 5, 2018, 5:10am

Please note that ArduPilot always sends both altitudes if it knows them.

anbello · November 5, 2018, 7:39am

Building Tower using dronekit-android with my PR posted above (post #38) gives relative alt in the actionbar of Tower even with 3.6 firmware.

Paul_Atkin1 · November 5, 2018, 4:43pm

hi, i had that app installed on pixel2 that runs android 9 - it crashes immediately upon an attempt to connect via udp. is there any way to test and see what the issue may be?

Javier_Beringola · November 5, 2018, 6:05pm

Hi,
I can’t help you with UDP protocol connection. I tested this app once through USB and works great. Sorry!

anbello · November 6, 2018, 12:56pm

With Copter 3.6.1 it will be possible to have relative alt in Tower without the need to rebuilt, but only setting the value of DEV_OPTIONS to 2.

github.com

ArduPilot/ardupilot/blob/master/ArduCopter/ReleaseNotes.txt#L6


ArduPilot Copter Release Notes:
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Copter 3.6.1-rc1 06-Nov-2018
Changes from 3.6.0
1) Garmin LidarLite V3HP support 
2) VFR HUD messages send relative altitude if DEV_OPTIONS = 2.  Useful for older OSDs and GCSs
3) Bug fixes:
a) Battery failsafe voltage parameter conversion fix
b) Safety switch startup fix (was occasionally not initialised properly)
c) Benewake TFmini and TF02 driver discards distances over 327m (avoids reporting 655m when can't read distance)
d) Dataflash erase only availabled when disarmed (avoids crash if user attempted to erase logs while flying)
4) ChibiOS fixes and enhancements:
a) Pixracer LEDs colours fixed
b) Terrain support fixed on Pixracer, MindPx-v2, Radiolink mini-pix
c) RC input processing fix to avoid memory corruption in some rare cases
d) FuriousFPV F-35 Lightning board support

Thanks to @peterbarker and @rmackay9

Paul_Atkin1 · November 7, 2018, 6:19pm

i just tried a guided mode test with that new app - copter definitely reacted to the command from this new app, but somehow propelled very high into the sky upon receiving it. i did not look much into it yet, if anybody wants to review - it is the log of it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uP711skNml1m8TfqsVJhiasDJinEooxd/view?usp=sharing

it happened around mark 765. altitude control was good at that moment, from what i can see both baro and lidar were in the agreement of where model was. so not sure what sent it up 60m.