2019-07-15, 07:03 PM
(2019-07-15, 03:30 PM)seandepagnier Wrote: I would be interested to hear about comparisons OP vs TP for the autopilot response. My intention is the OP should be fast as long as it's a quad core processor, where TP is fast enough with a single core. It would be interesting to break it down and figure out why, because I didn't think this was a problem.
I found that on a P3b+ the system running OP, OpCPN and PyPilot made the system “busy” to a point of sometimes crashing whilst trying to alter course on OpCPN. The webapp for PyPilot through OP was very slow to respond too, and once you did a course change using the webapp you had to refresh the page to do anything else.
Even when first engaging the pilot it took a long time for the motor to do anything, and initial course changes at startup lagged a lot but seemed to get better as the passage went.
I had a day of trying to alter the gains to make it more responsive thinking that was what was causing the issues but the lag between altering gains and events actually happening resulted in a lot of circles.
When I went back to TP, it was like a breath of fresh air!
Just my 2p worth.