[Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

The RC Flyers Toolkit Box is an integrated suite of tools to enable RC pilots to keep track of their batteries and charging cycles as well as manage flights and check lists.
Plus it includes a useful pinion calculator to calculate rotor head speed on R/C helicopters.

http://sourceforge.net/p/rcflyerstoo.../rctoolbox.png

Read more at the project blog.

The Maemo version is available as well as a Harmattan build. Currently I forgot to make the Harmattan version as mobile friendly as the Maemo one so this will be fixed in the final version. Note: I have no device to test out the Harmattan build so here I am depending your feedback.

Further builds (will) include desktop version for Linux and Windows as well as MacOS and Android (planned). The database is interchangeable so it will not be a problem to take the data from one platform to the other (eg. recording data on-field and copy the database to the desktop later for further processing).

Note that while the Windows version includes the necessary Qt and runtime libs the Linux and Harmattan/Maemo builds require Qt to be installed.

Feel free to leave feedback as I am curious how it works out for you.

Regards,

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

Is it possible to build/create package for N8x0 as well?

EDIT: the question relates to the building dependencies and API.

I think the the latest built qt for N8x0 was 4.5.3

BWT: svn is empty

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

I am afraid Nokia does not provide Qt 4.7.2 and the tool makes heavy use of various new features.
Regarding SVN I succesfully checked out and in yesterday so there is something in it.
I believe the URL shown is incorrect.
I will have to add the license anyway so I will fix this soon.

Note: I noticed in a version here a segmentation fault. I am not sure if it occurs with the uploaded one also. Something I have to check this evening also.
My apologies about that.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

Uploaded the binary releases after fixing a few bugs.

Now available: Builds for Windows, Linux (64 bit), Harmattan and Maemo5.

Not that while the Windows version includes the necessary Qt and runtime libs the Linux and Harmattan/Maemo builds require Qt to be installed.

Have fun with it.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

But how to use it?
I am not linux farmiliar....

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

If you are using KDE4 then you probably already have all preconditions installed, otherwise it depends on your Linux distribution how to install the Qt libraries. Please consult your distribution manual.
Or state which distro is relevant for you.

Afterwards, you can download the installation file provided from the link and run it (from a console or your favorite file manager).

You probably will have to set the execution flag for the file from your file explorer or a console window ( chmod +x <installation file> ) before running it.

Hope this helps.

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

I am currently trying to establish is it feasible to build/create packages of QT 4.7.x for diablo. Since nokia is encouraging developers to use QT for building of cross platform applications, I think this can be re-used to extend the life time of N8x0, provided we manage to build and package QT for diablo.

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

If you get it working that would be an interesting thing to try the app on a Diablo device.
Especially how it feels on a smaller resolution display.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

Gotta say as a big RC fan big thanks for making this ;)

Unfortunately my interest lies with RC cars (1/5 scale Baja 5B and a couple of nitros). So I would have to ask, could the battery calculator be used to monitor the servo packs for land vehicles too?

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

I did not think about this but, yes, it should be working, too. The only thing to consider is that there is a heli icon to add a flight which you should not feel confused of. Just think that this is a car with a rotor and no wheels ;)
I don´t think you do different things than taking a battery, emptying it by driving around and afterwards charge it, right ? :)

Manual will follow as it is not that straightforward as one might expect.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

Some preliminary notes on using it:

Everything is organised in terms of batteries, flights and charge cycles. A complete cycle is a combination of a flight and a charge operation.
You add a battery with the plus signs. After it appears on the list, it can (and should) be doubleclicked to enter the details (capacity, name, title, manufacturer, etc.).
It will not be stored without this.
You can then add a new flight on the view with the helicopter button (or whatever you use to discharge the battery). It will ask you for the battery used. Record at least the flight time. This is the most important information as it is used for calculations. Preferably adapt the date.
After charging the battery complete the cycle by adding a charge operation. It will ask you for a corresponding flight. It only lets you select flights for which there is no charge recorded yet. Record at least the capacity charged.
It might be that the charge does not appear in the list above. The list is context sensitive to the currently selected battery so in this case switch to battery view and select the corresponding battery. You might notice that the state icons have changed and it now shows the battery as charged plus some more information.
Switch back to the charge view and your entry should appear. If you have more entries for the same battery small arrows in one of the last cells will indicate if the flight was more efficient than the last one or less. This is calculated from the flight length and charge amount.
Your flight btw will be shown with a cycle icon to indicate that it has a completed charge cycle.
The check list should be self explanatory, take a look at the drop box below the list. Here you will find the categories you can switch. Eg. for preflight, packing, repairing, whatever you want. Just create a new category.

Hope this helps.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

If you want to keep track about the status and development feel free to read the blog and discuss it in the forums. Or file feature requests and bug reports.

http://sourceforge.net/p/rcflyerstoolkit/blog/
http://sourceforge.net/p/rcflyerstoolkit/discussion/
http://sourceforge.net/p/rcflyerstoolkit/tickets/

Your feedback is appreciated.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

I've managed to build QT 4.7.3 using diablo sdk.
Still untested on real device.

Fremantle (n900) extras contains QT 4.7.0 as of August 28th, 2011. The package name is qt-experimental

EDIT: I was notified that there is QT 4.7.0 already in Maemo5 PR 1.3 repositories.

RC Flyers Toolkit Box 1.0 RC1
 

The first release candidate of the RC Flyers Toolkit Box has been uploaded.

Improvements:
- Bug fixes
- Remove check category button added
- Swapped flight and cycle buttons in the toolbar
- Improved flight rating
- fixed calculations
- new current visualisation per flight
- translation updates
- and more

For the upcoming 1.0 Ankh-Morpork release no new functions will be developed, only bug fixes willl go in.
New functionality will be going into Lancre (1.1).

Versions available include Linux 32bit and 64bit, Windows, Meego/Harmattan and Maemo.
Mac OSX is not forgotten and still on the list as well as Android and Symbian.

Feedback is highly appreciated so take the chance to take part in forming the tool the way you want it.

Get it from http://rcflyerstoolkit.sf.net - It is planned to include the tool into Maemo/MeeGo QA in the long run so it will be available via Extras repository some day.

Especially the Harmattan version is untested so feedback is welcome.

Oliver

Re: [Announce] R/C pilots, this is for you: RC Flyers Toolkit Box
 

I´d hereby like to inform you folks that the project is still alive and approaching the 1.0 release (called Ankh Morpork Release) for Windows, Linux, Maemo, Harmattan and, hopefully, Mac OS X which will be ready in a few days from now. An Android version is also currently under testing.

After the release the Maemo and Harmattan versions will go into Maemo Extras Testing and hopefully Extras. Until then you can get the builds from the sourceforge link in the first post.

I hope you like it so feel free to give feedback.

Oliver

Announcing release 1.0: Ankh-Morpork
 

I am glad to announce the release of version 1.0 (Ankh-Morpork release) for Harmattan and Maemo.

Read the announcement at http://sourceforge.net/p/rcflyerstoolkit/blog/ from where you can also get the packages.
Putting it into the repositories is on the list and will take some time.

I hope you like it.

Oliver