Kelly Schrock
2 hrs
Just in time for the day 2 days before 12.4! Here is Solex 1.2.4.
Here's what's new in this version:
. Movable Cable Cam
This is something a few people asked for, and I must say, it's a pretty good idea. Once you've created a cable cam and gotten all of its moves the way you want them, it's nice to be able to fly it somewhere else without having to re-create it manually. Here's how it works: When you load a previous Cable Cam and you're more than 20 meters away from its original start location, you'll see a prompt asking if you want to run it in place, or move it. If you say "Yes, move it", it will move everything so the start of the Cable is right where your copter is. Then when you hit "Fly me there", it will just rise (or drop) to the altitude where the cable starts. (Note that this is AGL, so the moved cable's altitude will be the same altitude above the current location as it was in the original location.) There's a video below showing a really lame demo of it.
. Flight Profiles params display
I thought it would be cool to show the parameters being changed by a Flight Profile, so that's in there now. You can turn this sort of thing off with a new "Verbose Output" option in the App Settings. This option will affect things like this moving forward.
. Fix "Delete Remote Command" bug
Turns out that it's difficult to delete a Remote Command when the author of the app doesn't put any code in place to delete one when you hit the button. Oops!
. Fix commands being disabled on menu
On occasion, the buttons on the "commands" menu would be disabled when they shouldn't be. That's fixed.
. Geofence address search
When you're creating a Geofence at some location you plan to fly at later, it's kind of a pain to have to pan the map around over great distances to find it. So now you can just type all or part of the address you're interested in, and it will try to find it. It's meant to support "vague" addresses, so if you're trying to find "12345 Elm St. MyTown AK" or something, you might be able to get away with just typing "12345 Elm St". If it works, it will pan you there. Otherwise it won't, and you'll have to type more of the address.
. Timelapse/timed photos
Scott Manthey had a cool idea: Time-lapse mode. As it happens, the GoPro doesn't want to switch to time-lapse mode, throwing an error instead of just doing what it's told. But that doesn't mean Solex can't just take pictures at regular intervals anyway. So, you'll notice there's a little selector under the shutter button when you're in Photo mode. If you select one of the items in it other than "off" and hit the shutter button, Solex will trigger the camera to take a picture at that interval. This way, you can fly around and take a massive bunch of pictures that you can then stitch together later using ffmpeg, kdenlive or other software to make time-lapse videos. There's a time-lapse demo below, where I didn't bother to set my camera to a narrow enough FOV to avoid shooting my Solo's leg, but it gets the point across. You can also use this for just taking a picture every "n" seconds if you're into that kind of thing. (Which, now that I think of it, is what a time-lapse is.)
https://youtu.be/BCyHHUtV-7U
Solex Movable Cable Cam demo
Just a simple demonstration of a movable Cable Cam. It gets recorded in one place, then I have to stop and change a battery, then I fly somewhere different. ...
