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  • No able to update the time using time-sync

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    Aldo Castro FreireA
    Today I tried using another provider for the SIM and it connected to the internet. Not sure where to start debugging this cause it is getting an IP, but I figure it needs internet access to get the time ?
  • libxslt and libxml with Python

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @SHofmeester There is some introductory material about libmodal_pipe in our documentation here: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-sdk/
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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?
  • 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))
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • QGC battery alert everytime

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

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    wilkinsafW
    Thanks Eric!
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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?