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Scrambling

4/11/2023

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Yesterday I ordered new circuit boards for the next Tracker production run, an update to my Blue Raven production programmer/tester, and the next production run of Blue Ravens.   Last night, the Blue Raven production panels, which are nearly identical to the last build, got rejected by the circuit board house for insufficient clearance to the board edges.    I'll need to get back with them to see if I can over-ride that check.

In the meantime, I'm doing lots of testing on the new phone app builds, and while there are improvements in some areas, the last new builds have been taken steps backwards in other areas.   It's clear I need a systematic regression test plan for releases that are going out into the wild.  For now I'm just trying to feed back test results to my developer to get the existing features reliable again.  

I also need to prep and test a few more panels of Blue Ravens.  There are a couple of panels that are close, but need to get their numbering and naming corrected, and use the latest proven firmware build.

New Blue Raven features actively getting debugged and tested now:
  • Accel calibration via the phone
  • Firmware build version, date and time display in the Manage Devices screen
  • Loading new deployment settings from text file
  • Enforce consistency between the phone app and firmware versions by automatically starting an over-the-air update of the firmware when it is out of date
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Wolfram Blume
4/13/2023 09:34:41 am

Just got my Blue Raven! Congratulations on the release!
Small comment - The iPhone interface allows setting an output to be latched (i.e., powered all the way down to landing) but the simulation shows that the output is still at 1 second. I am probably the only person who uses this feature. I know you have lots to do but I wanted to mention it.

Thanks again for all your hard work.

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