Comment by sid on April 24, 2009 at 8:45pm

Can we change the mission / Waypoint on the fly..?

Comment by Hessel on April 25, 2009 at 6:14am

Moving so fast ! Is there a way to enter waypoints relative to the base location like it was possible in the 2.01 code's waypoint tab using this utility ?

Comment by Jordi Muñoz on April 25, 2009 at 10:09am

@sid, normally you shouldn't, you can do it if you tweak the radio modem to reset the ardupilot, and then upload the new parameters, but you don't want to restart the autopilot when flying, unless you are in manual mode (good idea if you have a partner), but anyway the modem may interference with the GPS...

@Hessel, My original idea was to set the waypoints relative to the home position, that is good because if you change the launch location the autopilot will calculate the new mission according to the position, but this ideas was not accepted =(. What i going to do in the utility is add relative waypoints based on the last waypoint. For example, you have your last waypoint (lan and lon), then you enter i want to go 145 degrees and 200 meters from the last waypoint, then the system will generate the next coordinates...

Comment by Saiful Azuwan on April 25, 2009 at 10:12am

Thanks Jordi for beta 3 release... Now I can Write my board.

Comment by Jordi Muñoz on April 25, 2009 at 10:43am

@Hessel: Correction, the relative board was original accepted the problem was that we can't use both, absolute waypoints and relative waypoints on the ardupilot, so we leave the absolute waypoints, and the utility will help a little bit with the relative waypoints... =)
We are always trying to meet everybody expectations, otherwise life would be to easy ;-)

Comment by Jhon on April 25, 2009 at 11:17am

mmmmm i dont succes opening the exe,
i get an error,
should i havee something else installed ? im using xp sp3

Comment by Jonas on April 25, 2009 at 12:31pm

He Jordi great work! I am testing it now. I have some questions about the program. I cab read and write to the Ardupilot. I set manually lat lon and Alt. (lat 51.571004 lon 5.606764 Alt 25) is Alt feed or meters? Now when I load this to the ardupilot it says Write Succesfull!! When I read it back I get Lat -2147,483648 Lon -2147,483648 Read Succesfull! Is that good??

Comment by Matt on April 26, 2009 at 3:01am

I've just had a look at the Ardu Utility. Am I supposed to be able to drag and drop waypoints on the map? If not, will you be refining the waypoint creation feature in the near future.

I'm running it on my Mac using Parallels virtualization.

Comment by Hessel on April 26, 2009 at 7:31am

I used the new beta utility to program a set of waypoints. I used a manual Home location. I was able to read the Waypoints back again from the eeprom. Now I'm hoping for some dry and quiet weather to perform a test flight.

Comment by OlivierD. on April 26, 2009 at 12:22pm

Chris/Jordi :
I am getting read and write errors in ArduPilotConfig Tool.
On Read attempts, it starts reading then fails at about 75% and displays: "I can't read it"
On Write attempts, it starts writing and fails at about 50% and displays: "Something is wrong"
I have double-checked the following:
-Using com 4, com4 works since I am able to load ArduPilot21 code no problem.
-Made sure to point to COM4 and Atmega168 (I am using the 168ArduPilot, no the 328 yet)
-Uninstalled, re-installed FTDI drivers
-Verified the cable, tested with another cable
-Reloaded ArduPilot21 code
-Still not able to use the ArduPilotConfig Tool beta3 or the previous version.
The only thing I can think of is the GPS. Throughout all this testing, I didn't have it connected, I lent it to a friend for testing and will get it back tonight. Could this be the problem? Does the utility absolutely need the GPS to be connected?

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