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After several months of testing and in conjunction with our policy of continuous product improvement, we've now released a new version of the Eggtimer Proton firmware. It incorporates a number of enhancements and fixes, including:
* You can now calibrate the accelerometer vertically while on the pad. This prevents the annoyance in which you forget to calibrate it horizontally and have to take it off the pad or lower the rail to do it. (Yes, it annoyed us too...)
* Airstarts can now be triggered by motor burnout, up to six of them. We don't expect anybody to build a seven-stage rocket to take advantage of it, but if you wanted to you could.
* Delays for both Drogue and Airstarts have been lengthened to 30 seconds, by request.
* A bug that occasionally reset the processor when you connected to the WiFi after landing has been fixed.
* Burnout metrics are now included on the Flight Summary page, and burnout event markers are now on the Flight Detail page.
* If you test-fire the Airstart channel and it's clustered to other channels, all of them will now fire properly.
* Displaying a Flight Summary after a baro-only vacuum test will no longer cause a reset.
* Some ambiguities and inconsistencies in the documentation have been fixed.
* There have been some general fixes in stability of the web pages.
You can download the software on the Eggtimer Rocketry web site,
https://eggtimerrocketry.com/eggtimer-proton-support/
To flash it, you'll need the ubiquitous Eggtimer USB-Serial cable, and a special tool... a small paperclip bent into a "U". The instructions for doing it are in the Eggtimer Proton User's Guide 1.02Q, which you should also download while you're at it, along with the Release Notes.
Note: We have updated the version to 1.02Q (from 1.02N), fixing a few issues that have cropped up, and adding a redirect to the home Status Page from the Calibration and the various Settings pages, so that a browser refresh won't resubmit them. Please download and apply the new version, thanks.
As usual, thanks for all your support!
Cris Erving, Eggtimer Rocketry
* You can now calibrate the accelerometer vertically while on the pad. This prevents the annoyance in which you forget to calibrate it horizontally and have to take it off the pad or lower the rail to do it. (Yes, it annoyed us too...)
* Airstarts can now be triggered by motor burnout, up to six of them. We don't expect anybody to build a seven-stage rocket to take advantage of it, but if you wanted to you could.
* Delays for both Drogue and Airstarts have been lengthened to 30 seconds, by request.
* A bug that occasionally reset the processor when you connected to the WiFi after landing has been fixed.
* Burnout metrics are now included on the Flight Summary page, and burnout event markers are now on the Flight Detail page.
* If you test-fire the Airstart channel and it's clustered to other channels, all of them will now fire properly.
* Displaying a Flight Summary after a baro-only vacuum test will no longer cause a reset.
* Some ambiguities and inconsistencies in the documentation have been fixed.
* There have been some general fixes in stability of the web pages.
You can download the software on the Eggtimer Rocketry web site,
https://eggtimerrocketry.com/eggtimer-proton-support/
To flash it, you'll need the ubiquitous Eggtimer USB-Serial cable, and a special tool... a small paperclip bent into a "U". The instructions for doing it are in the Eggtimer Proton User's Guide 1.02Q, which you should also download while you're at it, along with the Release Notes.
Note: We have updated the version to 1.02Q (from 1.02N), fixing a few issues that have cropped up, and adding a redirect to the home Status Page from the Calibration and the various Settings pages, so that a browser refresh won't resubmit them. Please download and apply the new version, thanks.
As usual, thanks for all your support!
Cris Erving, Eggtimer Rocketry
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