AltosDroid

Altus Metrum, LLC

About this app

AltosDroid is the Android edition of the Altus Metrum Rocketry Altimeter ground station software.

Using TeleBT ground station hardware, AltosDroid is able to receive telemetry from your Altus Metrum flight computer.

Features include:
* Telemetry logging to SD card.
* Text-to-speech announcements of flight state just like AltosUI (PC Software)
* Monitoring frequency selection.
* Google Maps view of airframe location
* Bearing, Elevation and Distance given relative to android device, not launch pad.

See http://www.altusmetrum.org/AltosDroid/ for more details.

Ratings and reviews

Looks good for recovery and ground testing. Have not used for a launch yet, but the local club's sites are already included for offline maps. Using Pixel with current patches, but the app opens with a warning about Android version incompatibility. No errors though, so far.

Brilliant to be able to check all statu's from the phone plugging a Teledongle via an OTG or a TeleBT . Flight announcements can be pushed clealy through the PA via microphone. Maps and vocal heading guidance makes finding the rocket easy.

Does what it is supposed to do.

What’s new

* Allow frequency selection in Idle Mode dialog
* Center offline map when switching from online.
* Deal with Android devices that don't have GPS a bit better.
* Fix a couple of crashes reported through Google.
* Change the color of the line from receiver to tracker on maps.
* Improve speed announcements during descent.