Companion 0.0.28 Update!

Blue Robotics Software Companion (Retired)
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Hi everyone,

We’ve just released a new stable version of the Companion software! :smiley:

For a formal summary check the release notes, but here are the main points explained:

  • Reduced CPU usage (should reduce/fix video dropouts/poor quality)
  • Fixed bug stopping the heartbeat failsafe from working correctly
  • Fixed bug causing missing Wifi SSIDs (*see below)
  • change default waterlinked underwater gps hostname from waterlinked.local to 192.168.2.94

Normal Update

If you don’t have missing wifi SSIDs you can update as usual from the System page of the companion web interface

NOTE: this update updates the mavproxy library so will generally take ~20 minutes to complete (expect slow progress on the arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc lines). If your ROV enclosure is accessible, it may be faster to download and directly flash the image onto the Raspberry Pi SD card.

Missing Wifi SSIDs

The missing wifi SSIDs issue was caused by a problem in the update process from the 0.0.22 release, so to fix it requires either:

  1. Directly flashing a more recent image (than 0.0.22) onto the Raspberry Pi SD card (requires opening the enclosure)

OR

From the companion web interface Git page (https://192.168.2.2:2770/git):

  1. Select the desired remote, local for Blue Robotics repository.
  2. Click in tags to open the available options.
  3. Select the 0.0.21 tag, it’ll be highlighted when selected.
  4. Click Update to perform the roll back
    git-update-wifi-SSID-fix
    git-update-wifi-SSID-fix778×1028 85.3 KB
  5. Connecting to your wifi network using the Network page (if not already connected)
  6. Updating with the normal ‘Update’ button from the System page
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