GPS math and calculation capability (Enhancement) [Ultimate goal is tracking progress on a GPS course] #209
Description
Which board (stock / gruvin9x / sky9x / Taranis) are you using?
TARANIS
What is your openTx FW version?
opentx-taranis-noheli-notemplates-en-r2834.bin
What is your openTx EEPROM version?
215
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. The GPS values reported in the telemetry are not usable. (They are in NMEA
format (or HH:MM:SS) and as such they cannot be directly used for calculations.
(need to be converted to decimal degrees)
2. There are no functions for entering waypoints (reference GPS positions)
3. There are no functions for calculating distance/heading from existing
position to/from waypooints.
What is desired:
A) A way to enter a "course" (series of GPS positions)
B) A way to use current GPS position and course positions to calculate
progress around the course.
i) Distance to/from
ii) Heading to/from
C) A way to use the distance/heading values during flight (announce with voice
for example).
D) Expose these to the user for programming to allow advanced GPS courses and
scoring of GPS-based flight tasks.
E) Expose this into the logging function.
My ultimate goal would be to have OPENTX perform the function currently
performed by the "SKYNAVIGATOR" (see manual at
http://www.icare-rc.com/document/SkyNav%20Handbook%20v%20_2_.pdf)
Implementation possibilities:
i) Send the GPS and altitude information externally through serial port and
perform all of the calculations and in-flight reporting via an external app on
a cell phone.
ii) Expose just enough math and variables and allow users to act on this using
Lua scripts.
iii) Develope the custom functions, variables, and math functions and allow
users to program these via custom functions. (In the normal manner in OPENTX)
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Please provide any additional information below.
See attached file for SKYNAVIGATOR (GPS Triangle racing system) which could per
performed in OPENTX transmitter using Vario and GPS sensors.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by pch...@comcast.net on 31 Dec 2013 at 10:55
Attachments:
- [SkyNav Handbook v 2.pdf](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/opentx/issue-209/comment-0/SkyNav Handbook v 2.pdf)