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Starling 2, Starling 2 Max, Sentinel, Seeker, m500, RB5, the PX4 Autonomy Developer Kit and Stinger FPV: flying, tuning, repairs and spare parts.

  • Actuator Tab not Identifying motors

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  • Installing MavRos on sdk-1.0

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    tomT
    @juancangaritan Cool, we can debug said ESC issue if it pops up again
  • Unable to run voxl-mavlink-server

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    @juancangaritan Thanks for trying that out! I'll update that docs page
  • QGroundControl parameters are missing from firmware

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    @smilon Yeah that's worth a try. You can also pull the calibration files off before performing a factory reset by locating them in /data/modalai and from host running adb pull /data/modalai/* . and then pushing them back on after
  • Support of modalai image sensors in Qualcomm RB5 Flight Dev Kit

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    @Anubhav No, the Qualcomm Flight RB5 Reference drone uses the Thundercomm QRB5165 SOM. The Sentinel has the same QRB5165 using VOXL 2 and is built with the same sensor configurations as the Qualcomm Flight RB5. VOXL 2 has the same computing power as the Thundercomm RB5 SOM, but a much broader support for different image sensors.
  • VOXL 2 IO RC with RB5 Flight on recent VOXL SDK releases

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @Eric-Katzfey There is a new dev version of voxl-px4 located here: http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dists/qrb5165/dev/binary-arm64/voxl-px4_1.14.0-2.0.61-202312011240_arm64.deb. Can you wget that and then load it on top of SDK 1.1.1? You can then modify the /etc/modalai/voxl-px4.conf file to specify RC=M0065_SBUS to use M0065 with SBUS. Once you restart you should have it working with M0065 SBUS. It has received very minimal testing at this point but you are welcome to give it a shot.
  • Sentinel sim card installation

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    tomT
    @rgphx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqPmvHLfCKY
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  • PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

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    @Anubhav and @DarkKnightCH: Was there any movement on this? We have 7 drones with FCv2 (all of our other m500 drones have different FC's) that were also sent to us with the wrong radios. We were able to reconfigure the PX4 for the desired radios (and confirm RC connection to QGC), but running voxl-mavlink-server manually shows a UART error on the console. We are RMA'ing the 7 units with the bad mavlink back to ModalAI for a fix, but it would be great to save the shipping if a fix was found here.
  • Implementing a Custom YOLOv5 Model on APQ8096 VOXL-TFLite-Server

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    @tpavlic Thank you, glad it helped!
  • Cannot upgrade from Graupner to Spektrum

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    @mkwan FYI, when we were switching from Spektrum to Graupner, we discovered this setting in the PX4 (accessible via QGC): RC_INPUT_PROTO To go from Spektrum to Graupner HoTT, we had to set that to "SBUS". There is a Spektrum-specific setting. Once we made that change, then QGC started acknowledging that we had a radio connected. That said, all of our FCv2 boards (which were the ones mistakenly sent with Spektrum although we ordered Graupner) had some problem in the UART connection between the PX4 and the VOXL, and so voxl-mavlink-server reported that there was no UART connection. We are about to RMA the VOXL Flight's to modalAI for them to investigate this UART problem. However, assuming that your PX4-to-VOXL connection is good, I think that the RC_INPUT_PROTO setting above should fix the problem you're having getting the Spektrum radios connected to QGC.
  • Can we modify the custom build PX4

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    @Siddhanth https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-px4-dev-build-guide/
  • Motor Replacement Starling

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    They are DJI mavic mini 2 motors: https://www.amazon.com/Drone-Motor-Repair-Parts-Replacements/dp/B0C2BS5B3L/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=7J3567SEZMEW&keywords=dji+mavic+mini+2+motor&qid=1698790092&sprefix=dji+mavic+mini+2+motor%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1
  • TOF and High Res Intrinsics

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    @Moderator That's fair, but can we have a aligned depth image, even if the tof doesnt have valid depth, a aligned RGB+Depth image would go a long way
  • USB3 streaming slower then expected

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    @chinkey I ran a few tests yesterday. I used the speedtest-cli application with a USB dongle. In the first test I connected a USB 2.0 Ethernet dongle to my laptop and got around 90 Mbps. I then connected that dongle to the RB5 USB port and also got about 90 Mbps. I then tried a USB 3.0 Ethernet dongle. On the laptop I saw about 520 Mbps but was only able to achieve about 250 Mbps on RB5. So I think that's pretty similar to what you were seeing. It's unclear at this time why there is such a difference.
  • 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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    @inha_baek If QDL still isn't working I would look into an RMA: https://www.modalai.com/pages/rma
  • RPM feedback

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    @Eric-Katzfey awesome, thanks!
  • 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.
  • VOXL MPA_to_ROS rostopics not subscribing to anything

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    @Darshit-Desai said in VOXL MPA_to_ROS rostopics not subscribing to anything: Is there a way to get camera intrinsic Matrix of the ToF camera. Also, if I want to align the depth image with the RGB image how do I do that? Hi sorry, I wanted to ask about the intrinsics that was highlighted by mistake. @ben-grocholsky