[v6.5] Stability and Refinement

Release Summary for OpenPPG Controller

This release sharpens performance, boosts reliability, and refines the user experience for a better experience in the air and on the ground.

What's Changed

Configurable Controller Information Requests

PR #58
The config client now explicitly requests controller information instead of sending it automatically upon connection.

• Improves stability by allowing recovery commands (e.g., reboot to bootloader) to be sent even if an error occurs during initial config transfer.

Display and Vibration Motor Enhancements

PR #53

Display Improvements:

• Added an animated “OpenPPG” text to the splash screen for a more polished user experience.

Vibration Motor Refactoring:

• Tuned vibration strength for stronger, more precise feedback.
• Introduced new vibration sequences.
• Cleaned up the vibration motor code in preparation for supporting different vibration drivers.

ESC Integration and Build Updates

PR #54

• Refactored ESC-related functionality into dedicated ESC.h and ESC.cpp files, improving clarity and maintainability.
• Streamlined telemetry handling, preparing for support of different ESCs.

State Management Overhaul

PR #56

• Introduced a DeviceState enum to replace the previous armed and cruising flags, enabling better state management.
• Updated task stack sizes and priorities for improved stability and performance.
• Added a mutex to ensure thread safety during state changes.

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Full Changelog: v6.4...v6.5

[6.4] Arming value check

What's Changed

• Small change to arming checks to read raw potentiometer value vs using smoothed value, which in rare cases would allow arming at higher than expected values.

Full Changelog: v6.3...v6.4

[v6.3] New Font + Core Stability

What's Changed

• New font! by @zjwhitehead in #48
• Single core operations, debugging by @zjwhitehead in #49

Other Changes

• Bump GH actions by @zjwhitehead in #47
• Update pr-labeler.yml by @zjwhitehead in #51

Full Changelog: v6.2...v6.3

v6.3-rc1

What's Changed

• New font! by @zjwhitehead in #48
• Single core operations, debugging by @zjwhitehead in #49

Full Changelog: v6.2...v6.3-rc1

[6.2] Runtime hardware configuration

What's Changed

• Support multiple RP2040 boards by @zjwhitehead in #46

v6.1 was only for 2040 hardware. 6.2 is the combined release for both

Full Changelog: v6.0...v6.2

v6.1-b1

RP2040 module support

Full Changelog: v6.0...v6.1-b1

[6.0] FreeRTOS, screen rewrite

What's Changed

• Introduce FreeRTOS for true multithreading on both cores on RP2040
• Rewrite screen logic to use frame buffering for a cleaner, more reliable info display (inspired by @thandal efforts)
  • Dark mode is now an option - pick your theme in the config tool
  • Show ESC temperature on the screen
  • Allow viewing of version and run time without rebooting (hold down button while disarmed)

Code improvements

• Break out code for altimeter into CPP files
• More reliable EEPROM writes

Note: SAMD21/M0 controllers are not yet compatible with v6.0

[5.9] Updated arm/disarm button sequence

What's Changed

New arming sequence to prevent accidental arms/disarms

• Rather than double tapping, the new sequence is tap, release, hold.
  The controller will indicate it has been armed/disarmed in the same way (tones + changing of bottom screen color)

• We also added the ability to view the stats screen (normally shown on boot-up) by holding down the button while disarmed.

(no major changes since v5.9-b1)

[5.8] Support V2 ESC Telemetry

What's Changed

APD ESC Telemetry v2 support
See https://docs.powerdrives.net/products/uhv/uart-telemetry-output

(no major changes since v5.8-b1)

[5.9] Beta 1

What's Changed