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    Colby HowellC
    Hello. I purchased a Starling 2 Max development drone and when attempting a first flight test I discovered that one of the batteries arrived entirely dead. I was curious if there was a way to receive replacements, and if this falls within replacement territory. I contacted the support email and was directed here. I can provide more information if needed.

  • Do you have a great idea for our products you would like to see implemented?

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    Serhii RovnyiS
    Hello everyone, I am looking for some expert advice on a VOXL 2 companion computer setup for a long-range platform. I have two main integration challenges: Challenge A: VIO at Higher Altitudes To solve the motion blur and pixel density issues at higher altitudes, I am planning a 6-camera configuration. I want to use 4 downward-facing sensors (2 daylight + 2 IR) equipped with narrow-angle lenses, alongside 2 standard wide-angle sensors (front and rear). Could you advise on the best supported sensors (e.g., IMX series) for this? Has anyone successfully tuned the voxl-qvio-server for narrow-angle lenses, and what were the altitude limits you achieved? Challenge B: LAN Integration & WireGuard The payload data flow will be: External RTSP Camera -> Ethernet -> VOXL 2 (WireGuard encryption) -> Ethernet -> Digital RX. Because VOXL 2 lacks multiple LAN ports, I will need a miniature industrial Ethernet switch. Does ModalAI have any tested hardware recommendations for this? Furthermore, what is the best practice for routing this VPN traffic through the VOXL 2 Ubuntu environment without bottlenecking the CPU? We are currently evaluating the VOXL 2 for a broader fleet deployment and want to ensure the ecosystem can support this custom optics requirement. Any feedback on off-the-shelf solutions or standard configurations for this use case would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  • Are you looking for a 3D model of one of our products?

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    Alex KushleyevA
    @nl_vdi , if you log into developer.modalai.com, you will see the CAD models. the latest model we have is: D0012-4-V3-C28-M36-T7-K0-Starling2-Max-V3-20260317.step [image: 1781036132877-376bf0dd-494a-4bf1-8d92-1b2d91afb83d-image.png]
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    Send custom rostopic data from voxl to laptop using wi-fi

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    Chad SweetC
    there is nothing special about the ROS implementation on VOXL. You might look at ROS networking documentation to debug
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    Are the camera modules for the tracking and stereo cameras cross-compatible?

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    Excellent, thank you very much for the fast reply.
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    VIFLY Finder V2 connection on VOXL

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    modaltbM
    Hi @rohitpillai , Sorry I had this queued to send but didn't send it! If it's VOXL-Flight, you have PWM outputs you might be able to use if you have a quad setup. See this as a possible option, where you can setup an RC channel (via the controller) to trigger the channel and possibly activate the buzzer (assuming it has a PWM interface).
  • Christopher BazeC

    Drone-in-a-box charging system

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    @Christopher-Baze we recently got a charging station delivered to us from Sky-charge. We are also working towards autocharging for our voxl-flight deck enabled Drone. Were you able to get your drone to auto-charge?
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    Controlling Velocity and Acceleration while using QVIO

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    Chad SweetC
    We have an offboard trajectory interface to voxl-vision-px4. I believe that will enable what you are trying to achieve. Code is here The figure-8 code might be helpful as well, but that would require you to fork voxl-vision-px4 ([code](link url))
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    TBS Crossfire Nano Receiver

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    Power module V3 output specifications

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    modaltbM
    Hi @mohammednaveed , The revB (which is basically what we've been shipping for 2 years) is rated at 5V with 6A output, datasheet. The snapdragon based designs have some decent inrush current requirements on bootup, hence this need.
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    VOXL Working Lighting Conditions

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    Steve TurnerS
    @cer5517 Here's another forum post talking about low-light conditions. https://forum.modalai.com/topic/589/flying-in-poorly-lit-conditions/3 TLDR is you need enough features for QVIO to pick points out for VIO. So you either need a diffuse light source that can illuminate features or some other low-light sensor that you would need to integrate with QVIO.
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    QGC battery alert everytime

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    Chad SweetC
    Hi Gaurav, please refer to QGroundControl's documentation on the battery monitoring setup here
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    Recommended Lepton Board

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    wilkinsafW
    Thanks Eric!
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    Pin-out for MCBL-00009 ?

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    connection to management in modalai

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    QGC GPS Speed Error

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    Steve TurnerS
    I have not flown the RB5 and I am still new to using PX4, but on a similar platform I recommend checking parameters in QGC and look for EKF2_Aid_Mask. You can toggle to: [image: 1648613903566-5fcf07a0-841e-4751-a38a-affff3b935f5-image.png] Which should disable GPS inputs and allow you to fly indoors. Just remember to set it back to use GPS when you want to fly outdoors. As Modal mentions, take appropriate safety precautions whens flying indoors even with VIO enabled.
  • Steve TurnerS

    VIO and GLOBAL_POSITION_INT

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    Great to hear. I forgot about the ToF. Chad beat me to the punch here. Glad that helped!
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    Suggestions for performing VIO

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    Steve TurnerS
    Cliff, Apologies for hijacking this thread slightly, but in another one I was interested in this transition mechanism. It looks like the responsible code to monitor GNSS signals and perform the transition is here: https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/pull/1/files#diff-4086bdb716e4bb6c6668a2d61f8c87ef3f15caf4c7d7032595c7ec28a4cffdc7R106 Are these changes merged into the official build of v1.11.3-0.2.3 on the ModalAI site at?: https://storage.googleapis.com/modalai_public/flightcore-releases/v1.11.3-0.2.3-modalai_fc-v1_default.px4 I haven't seen the firmware ever "flip" the EKF2 mask, but perhaps there is another parameter I need to set to enable the GNSS quality monitoring. I'll poke around a bit more, just wanted to make sure I was on the right track with the above changeset. Thanks much for any insight! Steve
  • Christopher BazeC

    Indoor path navigation

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    Steve TurnerS
    One of the Modal team can probably chime in on this... but I'll throw out a few thoughts. It would definitely be feasible with the Seeker drone, but would require some programming knowhow to leverage the mapping software Modal has out of the box. You could walk the drone around the space manually once to build the first map and then from there on have a path with waypoints around the space for it to fly the Insta360 around to capture updates of construction. Alternatively you could use one of the VOXL cameras to capture.
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    Hello, I bought voxl this time.

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    modaltbM
    Hi @마페링 , Double checking, do you have a VOXL Flight and not a VOXL? For the USB connection, what port are you using? The ADB connection is to talk to Linux (not PX4) and to talk to PX4 over USB you will want to use the J1006 connector. Thanks!
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    Implementing PX4 avoidance in mission mode using the voxl and QGC

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    @modalab Hello, can you help me to resolve this problem?
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    Unable to configure RB5 from Qgroundcontrol

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @prjana Can you arm the drone? Obviously with appropriate safety precautions as this can be an extremely dangerous thing to do if you aren't very careful! But arming the drone will cause the motors to spin.
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    PX4 mavlink flight modes

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    Cliff WongC
    Mavlink messages for setting flight mode use the MAVLINK_MSG_ID_SET_MODE message type (same as APM). Modes are defined in the uOrb layer under the vehicle_status.msg fie, which C headers are auto-generated at build time. The auto-generated file is under the build directory as vehicle_status.h via the NAVIGATION_STATE_* variables. And example of using modes in runtime code are in the mavlink_messages.cpp file (search for vehicle_status_s::NAVIGATION_STATE_AUTO_MISSION) and modes are processed in the Commander.cpp file. Both files under the src/modules directory of PX4.