BRIDGE Web Application

• Windows 11, Linux
• i7 11th gen CPU
• 16GB RAM

Menus

The BRIDGE app and its settings consists of several layers of menus and sub menus. This page will guide you through the main pages and the app specific settings.

1. Vehicle Settings

2. Camera Settings (dedicated page)

3. Positioning Settings

4. Sonar Settings

5. Input Mapping

6. Waypoint Planning

7. Dive Logs

8. Media Gallery

9. Diagnostics

10. Other/General Settings

Vehicle Settings

To access vehicle settings, touch the vehicle icon in the menu bar.

You can adjust these settings:

• Lights on/off: Main or aux lights can be turned on or off. Toggling will not reset the light intensity.

• Lights intensity: Slider from 0-100%

• Vehicle gains: Adjust the various speed gains provided by the vehicle, using a slider from 1-20

• Lasers on/off: Turn camera head lasers on or off. On first toggle you must accept a safety prompt, which can be silenced for 30 days.

• Disable motors on/off: Disable or enable the vehicles motors.

• Auto-stabilization on/off: When on, the vehicle will attempt to keep its orientation when driven or moved around by current.

• Station holding: When on, vehicle will attempt to correct planar movements cause by external sources (current, tether is pulled)

• Critical battery warning: Slider that adjusts when the 'Critical battery' warning is prompted

• Low battery warning: Slider that adjusts when the 'Low battery' warning is prompted

• Reset to default: Resets settings to default. 

Camera Settings

Dedicated page.

Positioning Settings

To access positioning settings, touch the map pin icon in the menu bar. You can navigate between these sub-menus:

Location Settings

• Topside position device: Select which type of device you want to use as your topside position provider

  • • 'Static' lets you define a fixed position through lat/lon

    • 'External GPS' let's you configure an external GPS device

  • Vehicle position device: Select which type of device you want to use as your vehicle position provider

    • 'ROV GPS' when using the ROV GPS

    • 'External GPS' let's you configure an external GPS device

    • 'Seatrac USBL' for the Seatrac USBL X150 beacon

• Coordiante format

  • • Decimal Degrees (DD)

    • Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM)

    • Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS)

Map Settings

• Centering: Change map centering modes between Vehicle, Topside or Both centering

• Orientation: North-up or Vehicle-up map orientation

• Style: Change your map styles

Heading Settings

• Auto-declination on/off: When on, your heading will be calculated based on your vehicle's geo-location

• Global offset angle: Manually set a declination value. Requires auto-declination to be OFF

• Gyro only on/off: When on, the vehicle will ignore the magnetometer to increase performance in magnetic environments

Sonar Settings

To access sonar settings, touch the sonar icon in the menu bar.

You can adjust these settings:

• Range: Slider to adjust sonar range. Range is higher when in 'Low (navigation)' mode

• Gain: Slider to adjust sonar gain

• Frequency: Swap between 'Low (navigation)'  and 'High (identification)' modes. 

• Flip vertical: Flip the sonar feed vertically 

• Palette: Adjust sonar colour palette

• Range markers on/off: Toggle range markers on or off

• Speed of sound (PPT): Define water salinity in which the sonar's speed of sound is calculated by

Input Mapping

To access input mapping, touch the gamepad icon in the menu bar.

You can adjust these settings:

• Tabs: Switch between the connected input devices using the tabs

• Profile: For each input device you can swap between the active profile using this dropdown

• Import profile: Import an input mapping profile from an external location

• Export profile: Export an input mapping profile to be re-used later

• Create profile: Create a new profile for the current input device

Waypoint Planning

To be added.

Dive Logs

To be added.

Media Gallery

To be added.

Diagnostics

To be added.

Other/General Settings

To access general settings, touch the cogwheel icon in the menu bar. You can navigate between these sub-menus:

Miscellaneous Settings

• Units: Change app units between metric and imperial

• Use 24-hour time: Switch between 24-hour and 12-hour time

• Camera OSD text: Toggle camera OSD on or off

• File destination: Specify where files are written to when recording/capturing data

• App volume: Change the volume of the app's interaction sounds

• Auto-start application: When on, the app will auto-start using Windows start-up menu

• Park camera head on app close (REVOLUTION only): When on, the REV will park its camera head when the app is closed

Software Updates

• Check for updates: Fetch online updates

• Connected device list: Lists all of the devices and sub-devices currently connected and their software version

• Import offline package: Import a .dtpf file for offline updating of devices

• Get offline package: Pull offline update package from the internet. This can alternatively be found here

Display Settings

• Overlay Editor: Open the Overlay Editor feature. Allows for adding custom text fields that will show up on your screen recording

• Full screen: Toggle the app between full-screen and windowed mode

• Full screen on app start: When on, the app will launch in full screen mode

• Hide UI: Hide the UI when operating

• UI scaling: Change between small, normal and large UI scaling

• Video fit mode: Change between how the camera feed is fit into the app container. Some modes will fill the entire screen but crop part of the raw video

Recording Preferences 

• Main camera on/off

• Aux camera on/off

• Sonar on/off

• Screen recording on/off

• Microphone/audio on/off

Serial Devices

• Topside ports: Lists any ports available for pairing on the topside devices (laptop, controller). These will only show if plugged in

• Vehicle ports: Lists any ports available for pairing on the vehicle. These will only show if plugged in

Calibration

• Calibrate depth: Set current vertical position as 0 depth. This should be pressed when the vehicle is at the top of the water column

• Start gyro calibration: Begins the gyroscope calibration process

• Start magnetic calibration: Begins the sensor pod calibration process