@DillonAllen Without WiFi, the only way you'll be able to debug VOXL related things is via. ADB so I would follow this guide: https://docs.modalai.com/setup-adb/ in order to setup ADB on your host computer.

The tracking camera (OV7251) is a grayscale camera, so it cannot sense color.

Sorry for the late response, I've been doing some testing. so I've narrowed it down to the error lying in the stereo cameras, I connected each sensor one at a time, reconfigured, and ran the voxl-streamer and was able to get footage for the hires and tracking, but when it came to the stereo it would not work. When I would reboot the system and inspect the services I would see that the voxl-camera-server is running, but once I tried to voxl-streamer -c stereo it would get stuck at the same place and the voxl-camera-server would stop running. I've confirmed that both of my extension cables are working by testing them with the hires camera. I checked the physcial connections on the stereo cameras and there are no creases in them, they look just as they were folded with the original setup, and I believe that if any of the connections were inverted then the VOXL wouldn't even start up.

Hey @Thomas-MacNamara ,

I totally hear you... We are reeeeal close to a big docs update...... Should be dropping on the server within days and hopefully we can clear things up. Appreciate the patience and please keep providing feedback as you have issues!

-Travis

Hi @Daniel-Ryu ,

This isn't something we currently support. The gimbal is primarily for stabilized video, but there's no autonomous control in or stack at this time.

Thanks,
Travis

MV is Qualcomm's Machine Vision library. The source is not public, but the binaries are baked into the voxl system image and the voxl-emulator docker image, so you won't need to do anything special to build/run a custom qvio server.

thank you

Great,

Thank you for your reply.

If you have an M500, it contains either a VOXL Flight, and there's an internal UART from the PX4 processor (STM32F7) to the Snapdragon processor running linux.

This is setup on MAV1, and if changed would halt comms between the two systems.

https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/master/boards/modalai/fc-v1/init/rc.board_defaults#L23

@Alex-Gardner thank you. I'll head down that path with ROS.

Any readmes/docs/guidance on how I can extract the telemetry/pose data via UART(J10)? I have the hardware connected, but a bit lost on where to start. Would it be easier if I added the Flight Core to the VOXL to get the telemetry ports J4/J5?

Is Flight Core required to allow qGroundControl to connect to VOXL?

Thanks.

@Daniel-Ryu , here's a possibility: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-m500-gimbal-user-guide/#mavsdk-behavior-with-mavlink

This gimbal is fairly simple, the stabilization occurs on bootup automatically only.

Also, is it possible to log the IMU data of PX4? Will you provide some library functions to implement that?

I see! Yes after changing this params I can calibrate the imu now with snav!! Thanks for your help!

Where does the april tag localization change the drone position being sent to the pixhawk to affect the error signal of target-position? I will need to use this position so I can correctly offset my path starting point

The setpoints are are sent to uart_mavlink.c where they are transformed by
geometry_transform_fixed_setpoints_to_local where the april tag transformation matrix is used to convert from fixed to local frame, which is sent off to the pixhawk. If no april tags are used local_frame == fixed_frame

Does the px4 expect path in the same reference frame as vio state (ie position in world coordinates, velocities in body frame?) px4 expects setpoints in local frame, but offboard figure eight assumes they are set in fixed frame (see above).

Please correct me if I am wrong here.

Cheers

Thanks, I just wanted to check if I was totally off track. I'll let you know how it goes, the potential of over the air adb updates are very tantalizing 😆

We do plan to bring the gimbal version back to life, hopefully by the end of the year. We have other, higher priority, products in the pipeline right now.

Here is a link to my .param file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14DA0fQ8Q4PowwlFXMUfU_w1wteXpM9rk/view?usp=sharing