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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.

  • Sentinel vs m500

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    Chad SweetC
    The VOXL 2 found on the Sentinel has 4x more computing power than the VOXL 1 found on m500. We do not know anything about UAV Toolbox or how to support it
  • Battery Charger for Sentinel

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    Any Hobby LiPo charger should work fine. The following supports 1S to 6S and from the picture it looks to come with an XT60 connector as well https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Battery-Balance-Discharger-Adapter/dp/B07R18YNZQ/
  • M500 ToF Sensor Integration

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  • QGroundControl Autoconnect when on same network with VOXL SDK

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @Sam-Kiley When on public 3G / 4G / 5G networks we use a VPN and assign fixed addresses to each system component with our VPN configuration. You should be able to do a similar thing with your 5G private network. Does your private network have a connection to the Internet or is it self contained? I don't know anything about 5G private networks but I'd be surprised if it didn't have a way to assign the same IP address to a device on the network so that you effectively have a static IP. Earlier versions of the RB5 SDK set the MAV_BROADCAST parameter in PX4 to 1 and PX4 would then use the network broadcast address to send out it's initial messages. Any QGC instance running on the network will receive that broadcast and respond so that you get automatic connection. However, this can be problematic if there are more than one instance of QGC running since you may connect to an instance that you don't want. Also, some wireless networks do not support broadcast.
  • TX16S Binding Problems

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    Fixed the problem already, had to disable channel mapping in the configurations of the protocol in the controller. Thank you.
  • Avionics power

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    VinnyV
    @g-ferrando You can safely ignore that message. PX4 doesn't have any filters on the power rail of the ADC so it flags any bit of noise on the 5V power rail. We've taken steps to improve that on FCv2. On both FCv1, and FCv2, our hardware can operate much lower than that default PX4 warning. If you use our power module and get reports that way of system voltage and current using the I2C bus, you can trust those numbers. Hope that helps.
  • Hires camera rotation

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    Alex KushleyevA
    Hello @JustinDev23 , Rotating Hires camera is not an option in the configuration menu, however you can still do this pretty easily. When you run voxl-configure-cameras, based on your use case, the script writes an appropriate configuration file to /system/etc/camera/camera_config.xml. In that file, you will see entries for all the cameras expected for the particular use case. Since you have already enabled the hires camera (IMX214), you already have an entry for it in camera_config.xml, so if you find it, you should see something like this <SensorName>imx214_rot180</SensorName> . What this does it tells the camera framework to load a dynamic library /usr/lib/libmmcamera_imx214_rot180.so - our default is the rotated version. To remove the rotation, you simply change the entry to <SensorName>imx214</SensorName>, which will in turn use /usr/lib/libmmcamera_imx214.so library after you reboot and the image should be right side up. Please remember that running voxl-configure-cameras again will overwrite the camera_config.xml that you may edit. Hope this helps! Alex
  • VOXL 1 PX4 firmware question

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    Chad SweetC
    flight Core v1 is what is found on VOXL Flight
  • Am I missing prop washers

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    Adrian HidalgoA
    @A-Evans You're welcome, glad I could be of assistance. You do have to tighten the nuts well, but not white knuckle tight. You will feel it tighten and then give it an extra little after that. We have been trying to source any of the nuts but they are all out-of-stock. You can check any hobby store or Amazon. If you're trying to get the lock nuts, look for the aluminium ones. There's a lot of steel ones available. You're looking for M6's
  • Running MAVSDK directly on M500 and Python update

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    Steve SagerS
    @Chad-Sweet said in Running MAVSDK directly on M500 and Python update: The Docker is 64-bit, so the code that runs inside is usually faster than the code that runs outside of the Docker Oh, that's interesting, thanks for the insight. I'll share with the others, and let you know how it all goes.
  • Manual Flight Mode to match Position Flight Mode

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  • Unable to connect to QGroundControl

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    A EvansA
    @modaltb Thanks for this, managed to just reinstall a few packaged from there, bit nervous to go the factory reset, we've had the drone for a while now but we are going to try a first flight soon. seems okay.
  • Technical Questions on RB5

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @adrianpang With regards to ArduPilot, VOXL2 is currently only able to run a version of PX4 on target. If you need ArduPilot you will have to use an external flight controller and connect it to VOXL2 with UART. We hope to have an implementation of ArduPilot that runs directly on VOXL2 in the future but there is no firm date on when this would be available.
  • Basic Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Drone Development Kit

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    Chad SweetC
    @rpaston The Sentinel and QC Flight RB5 are drones for software development - they are a reference so ultimately so you can build your own drones from our components. From your questions, it looks like you are looking for a more complete system. We need a 3-axis gimbal with 4K/8K camera, IR and laser rangefinder for testing. Which gimbal with 4K/8K cameras, IR and laser rangefinders are supported. Any suggestions? No We need precision landing on a moving base station (RTH) in wind. Does the platform have Dynamic RTH? No What is the IPxx rating? None Is the SDK open source? Yes, see https://code.modalai.com (based on Pixhawk/Python) and would it be compatible with Autel, Parrot or Aurelia? The flight controller is PX4 It would not be compatible with Autel, Parrot or Aurelia
  • Voxl-camera-server crash

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    Chad SweetC
    If you do reprogram your Seeker, this is the configure script voxl-configure-mpa -p --family seeker
  • 5G testing capabilities

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @JoshRebello This is the 5G module we are using: https://www.modalai.com/collections/modems/products/quectel-rm502q-ae. This also works well with our Sentinel drone which uses our VOXL 2 board instead of the RB5 board and has better capabilities. https://www.modalai.com/pages/sentinel. Even though it doesn't have 5G in it's name it uses the same 5G modem as the RB5 based drone.
  • Issues with Takeoff RB5 full throttle when armed.

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    Chad SweetC
    Hi Daniel, can you please clarify "Note: We have recently updated the firmware to VOXL 2 and the default RB5 firmware worked fine."? The VOXL 2 platform image will not work properly on RB5 Flight. You need to use specific RB5 Flight software. The VOXL SDK works on both platforms, but there are low-level differences in the system image and specifically PX4 is configured differently between RB5 Flight and VOXL 2. See this page for how to load the RB5 Flight platform image https://docs.modalai.com/Qualcomm-Flight-RB5-voxl-sdk-upgrade-guide/
  • Snapshot crashes voxl-camera-server

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    modaltbM
    Hi @mkwan , I'm not positive if resolved but there's newer SDK available, any chance you can try to update? voxl2_platform_0.9.tar.gz https://developer.modalai.com/ https://docs.modalai.com/platform-releases/#install I can have someone test this out on 0.9 release next week as well.
  • wwan0 carrier lost

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    Hi @tom ! Thank you for your response, the issue was solved by deactivating this service. Thank you so much
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