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Questions regarding the Sentinel VOXL 2 Development Drone

  • VOXL AI & 5G Drone - Microhard Modem Question

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  • Sentinel Receiver Options

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    modaltbM
    Yes new sentinels ship with M0154s. Let me check with the production team about retroffiting
  • GPS not working

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @Captain-7th Please check the new forum post where you ask all these questions again.
  • Quectel 5G Modem seg faults

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    @tom Well that's embarrassing, corrected and attached, n78 SA. Thank you.
  • Can't arm the Sentinel Drone.

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @Emon_dey said in Can't arm the Sentinel Drone.: Horizontal gps error is too high What happens if you set the parameter EKF2_GPS_CHECK to 1?
  • Flying Multiple Vehicles in Offboard Mode Concurrently

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @jmltt You do not need RC for offboard mode. However, you will have to look and see how your failsafes are set for lost RC to see what it will do. But definitely make sure that you are doing things in a safe manner!
  • Disabling GPS sensor input to PX4

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    J
    @Eric-Katzfey that did it, thanks!
  • Increasing Mavlink Message Stream Rate from PX4 to VOXL2

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    @Eric-Katzfey Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't know I could access it from the voxl's file system but I just found the script in usr/bin. I'll vim into it and change what I need. Thanks!
  • Remote-ID Serial Number

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    ModeratorM
    @pfranklin can you please share which website you are referring to?
  • S.BUS Conversion for Sentinel

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    @Eric-Katzfey Thanks for your help. I've confirmed that I was able to use J19 with the "RC=M0065_SBUS" option successfully. Hence, if no VOXL_ESC, one should use J18 for the VOXL2 IO board and if there IS a VOXL_ESC board, one should use the J19 for the VOXL2 IO board. The firmware seems to be "smart" enough to figure out as long as /etc/modalai/voxl-px4.conf is set as you suggested. -Joe
  • Sentinel Drone Rangefinder

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    Chad SweetC
    Hi Erik, thanks for pointing that out. It was a mistake, it has now been fixed as there are no CH-201 sensors
  • Question on Sentinel Battery Compatibility

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    ModeratorM
    @jmltt no, if you use the standard battery all should work as expected
  • Need Help Troubleshooting Failed First Flight Attempt

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    @Alex-Kushleyev Thanks for getting back to me I can't fly again until tomorrow but I will upload the log after we attempt a hover test. We were actually able to fly on Monday and we could achieve stable flight in acro mode off a fresh battery but only for about 30 seconds. We're getting new batteries to see if that's contributing. Don't know why it would cause the system (or at-least PX4) to continuously crash/reboot though. Here are the results of the esc checks: voxl2:/usr/share/modalai/voxl-esc-tools$ ./voxl-esc-scan.py Detected Python version : 3.6.9 (default, Mar 10 2023, 16:46:00) [GCC 8.4.0] Found voxl-esc tools bin version: 1.4 VOXL Platform: M0054 Detected RB5 Flight, VOXL2 M0054 or M0104! INFO: Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/slpi-uart-2, baud: 2000000 Sending library name request: libslpi_qrb5165_io.so Received standard error event 2 Sending initialization request INFO: ESC(s) detected on port: /dev/slpi-uart-2, baud rate: 2000000, protocol: firmware INFO: Verifying ESC Params.. INFO: ESC Information: INFO: --------------------- ID : 0 Board : version 31: ModalAi 4-in-1 ESC V2 RevB (M0049) UID : 0x2033393953435708003A0048 Firmware : version 39, hash d4fe8e3d Bootloader : version 183, hash 0a80a32a Params : ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml ID : 1 Board : version 31: ModalAi 4-in-1 ESC V2 RevB (M0049) UID : 0x203339395343570800340041 Firmware : version 39, hash d4fe8e3d Bootloader : version 183, hash 0a80a32a Params : ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml ID : 2 Board : version 31: ModalAi 4-in-1 ESC V2 RevB (M0049) UID : 0x2033393953435708003A004F Firmware : version 39, hash d4fe8e3d Bootloader : version 183, hash 0a80a32a Params : ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml ID : 3 Board : version 31: ModalAi 4-in-1 ESC V2 RevB (M0049) UID : 0x2033393953435708003A0056 Firmware : version 39, hash d4fe8e3d Bootloader : version 183, hash 0a80a32a Params : ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml voxl2:/usr/share/modalai/voxl-esc-tools$ ./voxl-esc-verify-params.py Detected Python version : 3.6.9 (default, Mar 10 2023, 16:46:00) [GCC 8.4.0] Found voxl-esc tools bin version: 1.4 VOXL Platform: M0054 Detected RB5 Flight, VOXL2 M0054 or M0104! INFO: Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/slpi-uart-2, baud: 2000000 Sending library name request: libslpi_qrb5165_io.so Received standard error event 2 Sending initialization request INFO: ESC(s) detected on port: /dev/slpi-uart-2, baud rate: 2000000 INFO: Params from ID 0 match ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml INFO: Params from ID 1 match ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml INFO: Params from ID 2 match ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml INFO: Params from ID 3 match ../voxl-esc-params/Sentinel_V1/Sentinel_V1.xml INFO: Success! Params in all ESCs are valid and identical. Let me know if you'd like me to look at anything specifically in the flight logs from our previous attempts. Otherwise I'll follow up tomorrow after our next attempt. Thanks!
  • Sentinel (VOXL2) not booting/not flashing

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    @Andre-Moura That's alright, thank you so much for all your help on this!
  • Question on Custom Controller Implementation

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @josephmlullo The build environment for px4 is within a Docker container. You can find the instructions on how to create this Docker image here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/rb5-flight/rb5-flight-px4-build-docker
  • Thermal camera compatible with Sentinel?

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    J
    @Moderator Great, thank you!
  • Sentinel sim card installation

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    tomT
    @rgphx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqPmvHLfCKY
  • Upgrade to SDK v1.0.0 causes crash of voxl-camera-server

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    @Moderator Thank you for your reply. Yes, the hardware setup is fine (is a sentinel drone out of the box)
  • Sentinel Drone (VOXL2) initialize error

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    tomT
    @inha_baek If QDL still isn't working I would look into an RMA: https://www.modalai.com/pages/rma
  • voxl-streamer gst_rtsp_server_attach failed

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    @tom that was during our troubleshooting of the hires camera, we set it to a few different settings to see if we could get video. i didnt realize that kicked off voxl-streamer as a service. Sorry I assumed that it was supposed to be running, looking at earlier screenshots it was not running. Prior to that though, with voxl-streamer disabled and not running, we were still running into issues with rtsp streaming across our network. we would get a single frame and then nothing after.