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knicholson32 / stratux_ahrs

AHRS Display for the Raspberry pi powered Stratux software
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Refactor proposal: Alternate satellite badge information #32

Open knicholson32 opened 4 years ago

knicholson32 commented 4 years ago

Describe the refactor proposal Currently, the satellite badge shows how many satellites are being used for a GPS lock. This doens't say anything direct about the GPS location accuracy though. It would be nice to convert this badge to meter accuracy instead.

Expected behavior The satellite badge should show GPS accuracy in meters (or many a unit of choice).

DocTopi commented 4 years ago

This is a very good idea for an enhancement. Foreflight EFB does the same - i´m using Foreflight with Stratux due to better GPS accuracy from Stratux as the built-in GPS in my iPad mini 2. And i read that the iPad could becoming very hot due to using the built-in GPS, possible causing a shut down ...