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[seandepagnier]

I found some problems

Hello Sean
I have been sailing in recent days with version 0.44 and I still had a few rare blockages in the gain tuning fields with the tablet. Everything returns to normal by closing the browser and logging it again.

I found an issue here and have corrected it.

I can't set the automatic tack.

Do you mean pressing the tack button?  It should then ask for port or starboard tack or cancel.  Did you find this?

I previously had an FF gain of 1.6 with version 0.24. I could turn quickly and precisely by pressing the +/-10 button 9 times. With the new tacking, the boat exceeds by 20 or 30° even if I reduce the FF gain a lot. But the boat then changes course too slowly by pressing a key 10

Hmm.    Does the course change normally with FF gain of 1.6 with the new version?    You are saying it overshoots by 20 to 30 degrees?

Is it at all possible to confirm the old version really has a different behavior here by trying in similar conditions?  Is it possible that the wind strength or sea state differed?    There really should not be any significant behavior change between the versions regarding this.  So perhaps it would also overshoot by 20 or 30 degrees sometimes in the older version but sometimes not, and you remember it a different way?    Can you confirm all the other gains are identical between the two versions?

After changing from 0.24 to 0.4, some buttons pressed on 433MHz remote controls are sometimes not decoded even if pressed for a long enough time. They are received because the blue LED lights up on the hat. I also have some difficulty programming the +1 and -1 keys although less than with 0.42 and 0.43.
The hat is that of 2021. Should we change the arduino code to Pypilot 024 at 0.4?

Which remote control are you using?    Can you confirm that it programs well with 0.24 version?    Are the +1 and -1 specifically more difficult? If it is only +1 and -1 functions I might know the reason. All of the other functions should not be affected.

There are only slight differences on the hat, mostly related to more precise manual control.  You have not mentioned anything about manual control so I would suggest you do not need to update it.

I tried to update the arduino code using a PI 4 with the method described in the wiki. But there has always been a failure.

I am not sure what failure you are seeing, but you should be sure to stop the pypilot and pypilot_hat services before you can update the firmware.

Fortunately, Pypilot still steers just as well with a lot of sea. In addition, it is incredible how little current it consumes with an old Autohelm tiller drive.

It is always good to get positive feedback too!