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  Hi @gerard
  Your RPi needs power.
  The USB on the Microhard Dongle is a Device/Peripheral Port, needs to connect to a Host PC/SBC.
  I do not see any power input to your RPi device.
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  That can explain your behavior.

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  @JB1 Our voxl-remote-id software with WiFi dongle is intended only for reference and is not meant to be a commercially ready system for our customers who need a remote id solution for their VOXL2 based drone products. Integration, testing, validation, and FAA registration with desired hardware is up to the end user. At a minimum the manufacturer id would need to be changed from ModalAI's id to your companies issued manufacturer id.

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  Hi @Jetson-Nano,

  Can you please clarify the following - in your original post, you mentioned that the third party ESC also had issues, however in the post above you said no issues. I am quoting your notes from above:

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  Scenario 3 – Third-Party ESC Evaluation
  To further isolate the issue, we replaced the VOXL FPV ESC with a NeutronRC X-CLASS 4IN1 ESC V2 (3–8S, 70A) configured using the DShot protocol.

  During testing, we observed the following:

  ESC temperature increased rapidly, reaching approximately 80°C to 90°C within two minutes of flight.
  One motor would subsequently stop during flight.
  The aircraft would lose stability and crash.
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  I just wanted to clarify what actually happened and then we can investigate further. Than, you for providing the diagram, i think it looks OK.

  I have never seen this behavior where the ESC reports incorrect voltage and these short spikes in temperature. This may point to a hardware issue on the ESC board, but i do not actually know where it might be or what would cause it. Have you visually inspected the FPV ESC that has this issue to see if any components appear damaged or anything looks unusual?

  Alex

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  @cguzikowski ,

  Sorry for the delay.

  Regarding the new HW not working, since you have two identical setups, i would recommend swapping components to identify what exactly is not working. This is the most efficient way to diagnose it. From the logs you provided, the ov64b camera is detected and initialized, it seems, but no frames come in, which could be a cabling or interposer issue.

  I will get back to you with an update on the lens shading tomorrow.

  Alex

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  @Eyal ,

  I will look for an indoor flight log from a stinger. At hover, the power usage should be around 110-115W based on motor dyno tests. The peak motor current can go up to 300W (per motor), but it's not possible to have all 4 motors maxed out.

  Regarding ethernet.. It is actually possible to establish a full wired interface using the same usb interface that is used for ADB. it is a lot more efficient that using something like adb port forwarding. We have some scripts that set up the full network with NAT, when voxl2 / voxl2 mini is connected to a linux host. There is one script that enables the usb ethernet in voxl2 kernel and then there is the host side script to set up the networking and tcp/ip rules for NAT (so that voxl2 can access internet via the host) -- the NAT part is actually optional.

  Actually the first part (without NAT) is already documented here, you could try it : https://docs.modalai.com/qgc-via-adb/ -- this will give you a full tcp/ip connection to the linux host.

  For downloading log files, we get about 35-37MB/s, it seems to be a 400Mbps link. Even with 1Gbps usb3 adapters we don't get full 1Gbps, so this may be the best you can get. Can you clarify your application for the network connection?

  Alex