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VOXL 2, VOXL 2 Mini and VOXL 2 IO: bring-up, connectors, power, cameras, system image and SDK installs on the current compute platform.

  • Reference Design for Custom Expansion PCB

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    VinnyV
    @Kevin-Racktoo Glad we can help. If you would like us to review your schematic for Voxl2 integration before you tape-out, just let us know! You can use our contact form to reach out and we'll respond back. https://www.modalai.com/pages/contact-us Thanks!
  • Vision failure everytime during takeoff

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    modaltbM
    On my setup yes that was all I needed to do, but we are still going to do a "full proper tune" on our S500 based frame (Sentinel dev drone) and I will confirm with you that we are getting performance as expected after this and share a video. Our flight test team will be doing that this week, thanks for the patience!!!
  • How to calibrate modalai esc v2 Rev B ?

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    @Alex-Kushleyev I am making a quadcopter with voxl2 and the modalai esc. I am trying to calibrate the esc. I am able to run the script but having this issue while scanning the esc with ftdi cable although I am able to run the motors with voxl2 J18 port. /voxl-esc/tools$ python voxl-esc-scan.py INFO: Device and baud rate are not provided, attempting to autodetect.. Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 250000 Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 2000000 Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 921600 Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 57600 Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 115200 Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 230400 Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 38400 Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 230400 Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 921600 ERROR: No ESC(s) detected, exiting. Is there any way to calibrate esc using voxl2?
  • VOXL2 - ESC v2 connections

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    modaltbM
    https://docs.modalai.com/modal-esc-datasheet/
  • Downloading PX4 ulog files

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    modaltbM
    Hi @mlarsen , If you're familiar with QGroundControl, similar to the pixhawks, you can use the Analyze > Logs feature to grab them (over an IP network not USB...) [image: 1667487221073-f8c31789-b1a1-4aa9-a498-d789ade3d86c-image.png] We are also saving this on disk here on VOXL2, eg: voxl2:/$ cd /data/px4/log/ voxl2:/data/px4/log$ ls sess001 sess003 sess005 sess007 sess009 sess011 sess013 sess015 sess002 sess004 sess006 sess008 sess010 sess012 sess014 voxl2:/data/px4/log$ ls sess001 log001.ulg log002.ulg log003.ulg Using the USB connection over adb, you can pull from device to your host system, eg: adb pull /data/px4/log/sess001/log001.ulg .
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  • Moto CW/CCW configuration for voxl2 IO board

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    modaltbM
    Same as every PX4 quadX: https://dev.px4.io/master/en/airframes/airframe_reference.html#quadrotor-x [image: 1666970979497-b3515d73-ffea-40c8-bacd-3c2584cfc059-image.png]
  • Voxl2 io esc calibration

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    modaltbM
    Hi @Tamas-Pal-0 , You can calibrate outside of the system fully using something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOplk52R4no I've not done this myself.... but it's the original way to do this from what I understand
  • How setup hires camera to 1080p or 4k resolution

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  • 5G Add-on board - Accessing the Quectel module Linux Shell

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    VinnyV
    Hi @Mark-Lee , Chad is correct in that we have not tried it, but my idea is that if you wanted to access the Linux shell on the modem card, you would need a modem development platform from Quectel. Here is an example I found online (please do your research to ensure this will work for you, but I do see they mention serial port access): https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803611119964.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US In our architectures, we do have a mechanism to talk to the serial port over software using one of the QUPs, but there has been no need to do so, and would be a costly SW expense to develop it. If you are willing to void your warranty (not recommended), I can show you which resistors have it and you could try to solder on to them, but you are better off with the Dev Kit IMHO.
  • 5G expansion board Peripherals

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    Mark LeeM
    Moved to https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1481/5g-add-on-board-accessing-the-quectel-module-linux-shell
  • External Storage

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    @Vinny Sounds good, I'll look at the expansion board for J3. In the past, I've had issues maintaining 40MB/s write speeds over USB2, not sure if it was hardware or software, but thus my jump to USB3. Thanks for the info about the Mythic, I'll reach out regarding that.
  • VOXL2 GPIO and Serial Interfaces

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    modaltbM
    I've been meaning to get this into a user guide as well, but for the applications processor GPIO, here's an example of setting IO programmatically, in this case GPIOs 46/159: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/utilities/voxl-bind/-/blob/master/src/voxl-bind.c#L58 https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/utilities/voxl-bind/-/blob/master/src/voxl-bind.c#L147
  • LidarLite v3 over I2C on Sentinel (VOXL2)

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    modaltbM
    Hi @pfranklin , Sorry for the lag. The VOXL 2 architecture has a few processors, the I2C on the 5G modem port is mapped to the applications processor. The I2C we use by default in PX4 is connected to a DSP (image here https://docs.modalai.com/images/voxl2/m0054-px4-block-diagram-0.4.png). For each driver we've used on the DSP, we've had to make a few small mods to get going. Here's an example of an I2C driver we use on the DSP for talking to a baro: https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/tree/voxl-dev/src/drivers/barometer/icp10100 It's enabled in the build here: https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/blob/voxl-dev/boards/modalai/rb5-flight/qurt.cmake#L55 Are you already using J19 pins 3 and 4? If not we could hijack those from the mag driver perhaps and you could use the sensor there.
  • ERROR: Camera 1 failed to find supported snapshot config

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  • VOXL ESC scripts over VOXL2

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    @wilkinsaf Yeah no leds or noise. Welp, I am going to send this back for hardware inspection. See if a cable is loose. Thanks again @modaltb
  • VOXL2 PX4 not flying

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    @Daniel-Mellinger I am still facing the issue with the remote, but i believe its only with the remote as I was able to get it flying in offboard mode using the VIO onboard. Its flying and is quite stable at the moment. Due to the nature of our research, we dont fly with the manual remote (we only use that for initial tests). But from my experience im not sure if the remote controller could be at fault, because I have used the same RC / receiver pair on the VOXL (version 1) and its able to fly in manual mode without any problems If you look at the Manual Control input plot in the px4 review mentioned in the 1st post, you will see that there are no discontinuities present in the signal. The setpoint thrust and pitch curves look fine. Whereas the setpoint pitch and thrust going into the attitude controller is quite discontinuous In summary, we are just using the remote to change modes and trigger emergency kill switch and thus this bug is not affecting us anymore
  • Can't Flash VOXL2 (Battery Capacity is Very Low)

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    wilkinsafW
    @mrawding Wanted to reply here and say sudo did not work but sudo su allowed us to overcome this problem
  • Level horizon calibration failed on voxl2

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    Tamas Pal 0T
    @modaltb Thank you. It works....
  • PID parameters for F-450

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