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CarCode · 12-08-2016, 11:52

Baikal,

I guess that depends heavily onto the operating system beeing used.
On a Mac the separat br24radar window can easily switched to fullscreen and back using the window button (see red circle).

Gerhard

ve7mdl · 13-08-2016, 09:27

I am still nor clear on the PPA to set up in order to get the latest Linux version of the plugin. I tried to get the source code yesterday, but the repository did not respond.

I downloaded the packaged version, but when trying to install, the system told me that a newer version was already on the system - although I had uninstalled the plugin and deleted all BR24* files.

We are out on the boat with only occasional Internet access, so will try off and on.

Cheers, ....Erik.
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ve7mdl · 13-08-2016, 16:55

I managed to get git to respond and compiled the source. However, when I go to install the compiled image, it still reports that a later version is already installed. What should I do?

Cheers, ....Erik.
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merrimac · 14-08-2016, 05:25

Erik,

Code:

dpkg -l | grep br24

will list packages and then

Code:

apt remove <package>

will remove the old package.

The 2.0 code is in both PPAs.

ve7mdl · 14-08-2016, 08:44

Hi Merrimac,

Thanks for the reply. I will try those commands while underway.

Could you please specify the PPAs? I have the OpenCPN PPA set up and I am not getting the update.

We're off into the wilderness this morning.

Cheers, ....Erik.
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merrimac · 14-08-2016, 23:56

It really is in the OpenCPN PPA. The package name is opencpn-plugin-br24radar.

Are you sure you ran apt update?

Here is me re-installing the plugin from the PPA after checking the content of the PPA sources.list file:

Code:

root@pvlinux:~# ls -ltr /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332 apr 25 09:26 crossplatform-ports.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 338 jun 26 17:18 crossplatform-ports.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 jun 26 17:18 opencpn-ubuntu-opencpn-xenial.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 338 jun 26 17:18 crossplatform-ports.list
root@pvlinux:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opencpn-ubuntu-opencpn-xenial.list 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu xenial main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu xenial main
root@pvlinux:~# dpkg -l | grep br24
ii  opencpn-plugin-br24radar                             2.0.0-0~xenial1                                             amd64        Plugin for OpenCPN
root@pvlinux:~# apt remove opencpn-plugin-br24radar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  opencpn-plugin-br24radar
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1286 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 305234 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing opencpn-plugin-br24radar (2.0.0-0~xenial1) ...
root@pvlinux:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                         
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial InRelease                                            
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu xenial InRelease                    
Get:6 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95,7 kB]              
Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-updates InRelease [95,7 kB]                  
Hit:8 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                          
Hit:9 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-security InRelease                             
Get:10 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [364 kB]
Fetched 3977 kB in 1s (3469 kB/s)                          
Reading package lists... Done
root@pvlinux:~# apt-get install opencpn-plugin-br24radar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  opencpn-plugin-br24radar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/378 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1286 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package opencpn-plugin-br24radar.
(Reading database ... 276314 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../opencpn-plugin-br24radar_2.0.0-0~xenial1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking opencpn-plugin-br24radar (2.0.0-0~xenial1) ...
Setting up opencpn-plugin-br24radar (2.0.0-0~xenial1) ...
root@pvlinux:~#

nohal · 15-08-2016, 05:59

ve7ml...
Just to be sure, what is your Ubuntu version? Bear on mind that the non-LTS releases reach the end of life quickly and we can't build new packages for them in the PPA anymore. The currently supported Ubuntu editions, which have BR24radar_pi 2.0 packages available are: Precise (12.04), Trusty (14.04), Vivid (15.04), Wily (15.10), Xenial (16.04), Yakkety (16.10 beta)
If you have anything else, I'm sorry, next time better use a LTS release.

Pavel

Hakan · 18-08-2016, 01:17

This plugin is close to new release.
If you're a translator a new source (POT) file is now loaded to Crowdin.
Thanks
Håkan

merrimac · 18-08-2016, 01:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hakan

This plugin is close to new release.
If you're a translator a new source (POT) file is now loaded to Crowdin.
Thanks
Håkan

Dutch translation now done. Some of these terms are really difficult to decide. Most dutch folks don't like translating technical terms but I think those folks are more likely to stick to English for OpenCPN, so I've decided to go for "echo" for "target" and "echospoor" for "target trail". BTW most "core" OpenCPN dutch translations are a bit off anyway, as well as lots of BR24 translations, as officially we need to string words together. German is famous for this, but how about the following longest word in the official Dutch word list:

aansprakelijkheidswaardevaststellingsveranderingen

(liability damage settlement changes, or something like that.)

seandepagnier · 18-08-2016, 05:32

did you ever get to trying with texturmapping instead of triangles or a shader?

This might uses less cpu or gpu than anything else with great results. The texture is the same as the shader implementation, but instead of using a fragment shader, there is instead a pi of say 1024 triangles with center point at the boat. These triangles don't change, so they could be uploaded to a vbo. They have texture coordinates for the correct location in the texture.

I could be wrong but I think this is going to be much faster than the current implementation with triangles, but unfortunately I have no radar.

hasse_A · 18-08-2016, 11:32

Downloaded latest source code from github. Put opencpn.lib under build-win32 directory. Got 125 linker errors.

/Hans

CarCode · 18-08-2016, 11:55

When I get an error during compiling, I read the error text and then I fix it according the text.

Gerhard

merrimac · 18-08-2016, 23:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by boat_alexandra

did you ever get to trying with texturmapping instead of triangles or a shader?

This might uses less cpu or gpu than anything else with great results. The texture is the same as the shader implementation, but instead of using a fragment shader, there is instead a pi of say 1024 triangles with center point at the boat. These triangles don't change, so they could be uploaded to a vbo. They have texture coordinates for the correct location in the texture.

I could be wrong but I think this is going to be much faster than the current implementation with triangles, but unfortunately I have no radar.

It's very easy in the new setup to add a new drawing method (add a subclass off RadarDraw), but I am absolutely not well versed in OpenGL, so could you do this? You can run the emulator (which just draws some fixed segments) and replay some data files from other users (we'll upload some more soon) so not having a radar wouldn't be an issue for development of this particular feature. (If you are developing controls it's handy if the radar actually reacts, I must admit.)

That said, I don't even notice the CPU load so I don't think it's an issue anymore. We even increased the default drawing rate so it shows updates more in a "sweeping" style.