Altos1.4.1

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:35:08 -0700
tags/rockets

AltOS 1.4.1 — Fix ups for 1.4

Bdale and I are pleased to announce the release of AltOS version 1.4.1.

AltOS is the core of the software for all of the Altus Metrum products. It consists of firmware for our cc1111, STM32L151, LPC11U14 and ATtiny85 based electronics and Java-based ground station software.

This is a minor release of AltOS, incorporating a small handful of build and install issues. No new features have been added, and the only firmware change was to make sure that updated TeleMetrum v2.0 firmware is included in this release.

AltOS — TeleMetrum v2.0 firmware included

AltOS version 1.4 shipped without updated firmware for TeleMetrum v2.0. There are a couple of useful new features and bug fixes in that version, so if you have a TeleMetrum v2.0 board with older firmware, you should download this release and update it.

AltosUI and TeleGPS — Signed Windows Drivers, faster maps downloading

We finally figured out how to get our Windows drivers signed making it easier for Windows 7 and 8 users to install our software and use our devices.

Also for Windows users, we've fixed the Java version detection so that if you have Java 8 already installed, AltOS and TeleGPS won't try to download Java 7 and install that. We also fixed the Java download path so that if you have no Java installed, we'll download a working version of Java 6 instead of using an invalid Java 7 download URL.

Finally, for everyone, we fixed maps downloading to use the authorized Google API key method for getting map tiles. This makes map downloading faster and more reliable.

Thanks for flying with Altus Metrum!