Recent Changes

"Rolling" release note

As mwptools does not really make releases (though there is a somewhat current .deb file), this page provides notice of significant changes. If you want to see the gory details, Github provides a formatted commit log.

2021-10-31

• "Favourite" places editor : The places file is a delimited (CSV) file that defines a list of "shortcut" home locations used by the "View / Centre on Position ..." menu item. It consists of a Name, Latitude, Longitude and optionally zoom level, separated by a TAB,|,: or ;. Note that positions may be localised the file and must NOT use . as a field separator. There is now a graphical editor (via the "View / Centre on Position ..." menu item); in addition, to properly support localisation , is no longer recognised as a field separator, so extant files may need updating.
• Bash completion files are correctly installed for local installs.

2021-10-20

• Removal / replacement of obsolete tools (otxlog et al).

otxlog has morphed into one of the flightlog2x tools (this projects provides binary releases). As the command line options are different, the older stuff which was not maintained is removed. This now means there is a single, consistent maintained toolset that replays Blackbox, OpenTX, BulletGCSS and Ardupilot .bin logs in a coherent manner (as well as doing other things like generating beautiful KMLs from logs, log2mission etc.).

The replay menu option is enabled by having fl2ltm somewhere on $PATH; fl2ltm will enable BBL, OTX, Bullet and Ardupilot logs . The older BBL script remains for now, but is not maintained and will be removed at some stage. BBL also requires blackbox_decode to be available; Ardupilot requires their mavlogdump.py script. If these additional tools are missing, their menu options will be disabled.

• otxlog is replaced by fl2ltm
• bbsummary is replaced by flightlog2kml -summary