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• FPV Drones

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  @chinlee5 Which drone do you have? Which versions of software are you using? Are those messages appearing on QGC? Also, do not try to arm the drone or fly the drone while attached to a power supply. Only use a battery for that. If you take the drone outside with a full view to the sky so that GPS can acquire satellites do the messages go away?

• VOXL Accessories

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  @Alex-Kushleyev Thank you that fixed it for J6. Is there a reason the same config doesn't work on J7? Ideally was hoping to use J7 since it works better for our layout purposes.

  I can get J6U-ar0144 and J6L-imx412 to work but not J7U-ar0144 and J7L-imx412 or J7U-imx412 and J7L-ar0144. For both it cannot find the lower sensor.

  Also is there a reason the imx412 driver does not exist for J6 upper?

• VOXL Compute & Autopilot

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  Hi all,

  I am currently trying to run a 3xAr0144 and 2x FLIR Lepton on the Voxl 2 mini and M0188. I have all 3 Ar0144 cameras working well in Vio and have the voxl-lepton-server running and publishing the lepton pipes. My question is, how should I go about integrating these cameras in the VIO OpenVINS tracking system?

  Thanks

• VOXL Dev Kits

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  Hello @RoyAzriel ,

  If you are going to be experimenting with adding different sensors (Lidar), then Starling 2 Max is definitely going to offer more flexibility due to the larger size and longer flight time.

  You should consider the dimensions of the tunnel and make sure that the drone will easily fit. I have no idea how small the cross section of the tunnel is, but if it is very small (just several times larger than the diameter of the drone), then it would be very difficult to fly due to air circulating in a small space.

  What Lidar are you considering adding and what is its weight and communication interface?

  The illumination will depend on your specific application, depending on how far you need to see. You should be able to add standard LED lights. if you need to control the LED intensity, you would need to get an LED with built in adjustable LED driver and optionally control it using PWM output feature on the ESC.

  Are you going to develop your own mapping and navigation stack for this application?

  Alex

• VOXL Dev Drones

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  Good tip. For anyone testing without the GPS module attached, setting SYS_HAS_MAG=0 and EKF2_MAG_TYPE=5 seems to be the key part since the compass is on the GPS board. I was also looking at some compass-related references on 123compass.org while trying to understand the magnetometer side of it.

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  Hello @Vinny @Eric-Katzfey @Alex-Kushleyev @modaltb

  I am facing an error with my Voxl FPV ESC. The ESC is not responding to any command. While plug in power the ESC is only blinking 3 LED for the initialization, then there is no LED blinking.
  The ESC was working fine, during a flight test the motor suddenly stopped and the drone was landed safely somehow, but after that the motors are not starting, there are no visible damages.
  I am attaching the terminal results, I tried to upgrade the firmware, alchange the parameter file, but the ESC is not responding. I also checked with various baudrate, the result is same, no response.

  :~/Downloads/voxl-esc-master/voxl-esc-tools$ sudo python3 voxl-esc-scan.py Detected Python version : 3.10.12 (main, Mar 3 2026, 11:56:32) [GCC 11.4.0] Found voxl-esc tools bin version: 1.10 INFO: All COM ports: /dev/ttyUSB0 : FT232R USB UART - FT232R USB UART INFO: UART Port Candidates: /dev/ttyUSB0 INFO: Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 2000000 INFO: Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 230400 WARNING: No ESC(s) detected INFO: All COM ports: /dev/ttyUSB0 : FT232R USB UART - FT232R USB UART INFO: UART Port Candidates: /dev/ttyUSB0 INFO: Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 250000 INFO: Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 230400 WARNING: No ESC(s) detected INFO: All COM ports: /dev/ttyUSB0 : FT232R USB UART - FT232R USB UART INFO: UART Port Candidates: /dev/ttyUSB0 INFO: Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 921600 INFO: Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 230400 WARNING: No ESC(s) detected INFO: All COM ports: /dev/ttyUSB0 : FT232R USB UART - FT232R USB UART INFO: UART Port Candidates: /dev/ttyUSB0 INFO: Scanning for ESC firmware: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 57600 INFO: Scanning for ESC bootloader: /dev/ttyUSB0, baud: 230400 WARNING: No ESC(s) detected ERROR: not all ESCs found

  please help me out here, is there any way to figure out why is this happening and how to solve it, I had a similar instance earlier, but the ESC was responsive and one motor was glitching. it was stopping during rotation. changing motor did not help, so i changed the ESC and it worked.

  what I do to maintain the ESC safety and working.