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« on: August 28, 2020, 01:53:35 pm »
Lee,
Thank you for that detailed reply earlier regarding the filtering out of ground stations in track logs. Unfortunately I can only agree with a little of it. Of course I sympathise with your support loading, and clearly if you can automate some of it that would be a good thing, but by depriving people of an easy way to sort out their own installation I’m not convinced you are making it any easier for yourself.
Clearly I can’t tell from your rather general description what you’re actually proposing to provide from the telemetry you’re gathering. I’m sure it will be very useful for general system performance monitoring and presumably will provide metrics like “78% of users have contact with a groundstation for 82% of the time” or “your installation scores 7 on a scale of 0 to 10” etc.
I really can’t see how this helps individuals, with all the variability of individual installations and performance of local groundstations to know what they are actually getting, and what to do about it, and I wonder how long it will be before this is publically available in an automated form.
I strongly disagree that allowing people to self-analyse is in any way difficult or undesirable. There is no need to wade through large text files as you suggest. James Roses’ fantastic track analysis tool allows you see in the simplest possible way how well an individual installation is performing in terms of range on various bearings etc. etc. I have suggested to him that it would be even better if the track colour could be changed to indicate where in the flight the uplink was working or not. What could be easier than that? I have made good progress with my own installation, on which I will report in due course, due to this tool.
I really can’t see how some online tool, especially relying on secondary data via the downlink rather the raw data in the track filter, can be any easier or better. People are either interested in knowing how well it works and fixing it, or not.
I cannot see a single good reason why the ground stations should be filtered, and so I do wonder why you are doing it? It doesn’t affect me at the moment as I am using Skydemon audio and set my filters wide, but many people will want to use PAW audio. Why deprive them of the ability to use this facility, for no positive reason?
Please reconsider before your upcomong release! I'm sure it is a trivial mod!
Kind regards,
Alan