Copter: disable sport mode #20053
Copter: disable sport mode #20053
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Merged, thanks |
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Can we revert this? I use it for doing dolly shots with my drone, and it's a huge pain to have to build a custom firmware for it every time. Also, in time all the GCS and Lua scripts will also drop support making it even harder to use. If there was a way to tell AltHold to keep the vehicle attitude when sticks are centered, then i would say remove this, but since there is no alternative mode that does the same, then could we keep this? fingers crossed |
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@rmackay9 In the mean time, what options do i have to select in the custom build server to have exactly the same features as the default firmware for Durandal-dshot, but including Sport mode? |
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Hi @Johnex, We disabled sport mode because we couldn't find any users of it. Now that you've appeared we will reconsider that choice.. Thanks for posting. |
This disables Copter's sport mode by default. This mode allows the pilot to control the vertical speed (like AltHold mode) but lean angle using body-frame rates (like Acro). This mode seemed like a good idea at the time to Leonard and I but in practice nobody ever uses it (not even us).
In all my years supporting releases I have never seen a log with a user flying in Sport mode so I think we should actually remove it completely but before we do that, let's disable it and see how many people complain. For 4.2 at least it will be available using the custom build server.
As we search around for more flash space, let's consider simplifying the code base by removing unused features.