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VOXL m500 Reference Drone

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    m500 is not connecting to QGC or my DX6e controller

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    Thank you for the info! After messing with it some more, I think it might have to do with the batteries I am using. Because the drone is currently turned on and my laptop is connected to the drone's wifi, but it is no longer connecting to QGC, even with a micro USB connection too. The battery I am using is a "14.8V, 45C, 4S1P, 3300, 4 Cell battery". And it will only read on the QGC when it is around 30-50%. Any ideas what I should try next?
  • Cristian AdamC

    Out of space for docker load -i

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    @tpavlic heyyy... i do agree that using roskinetic and xenial is kind of a dumb thing... could you help me with something ? are you using the m500 drone with voxl 1 here to do the "docker pull ros:noetic-robot" command? if you are i do get an error saying Error: Status 410 trying to pull repository library/ros: "<html>\r\n<head><title>410 Gone</title></head>\r\n<body>\r\n<center><h1>410 Gone</h1></center>\r\n<hr><center>openresty</center>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n" i really kind of want to use the higher versions of python and a more recent ubuntu distribution. any tips or suggestions ?
  • wilkinsafW

    VIO keeps falling out

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    Following up here. We upgraded to a voxl2 and stopped since this error. we think it might have been an issue with voxl flight on the newest SDK for auto exposure
  • Evan DE

    Controller not recognized in QGC

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    @Eric-Katzfey Reinstalling px4 solved my problem, thanks for your help!
  • yu zhangY

    m500 enabling RTK GPS

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    @xav04 I am trying to do the same thing as you, by using the J9 port on the 5G Modem to attach an RTK GPS. Were you able to do so?
  • D

    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.
  • A

    Implementing a Custom YOLOv5 Model on APQ8096 VOXL-TFLite-Server

    voxl m500 tflite yolov5 ros
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    @tpavlic Thank you, glad it helped!
  • M

    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.
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    stereo calibration problem & ask for calibration results

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    tomT
    @dtsbourg There is some good info here: https://docs.modalai.com/calibrate-cameras/
  • Michael HinckleyM

    Auto-Exposure Issue with Tracking Camera

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    @Moderator , I am using the standard OV7251 sensor. The Flicker does not happen indoors though. Happy to share a video. Regards,
  • José QuintanillaJ

    In odometry my m500 doesn't detect x and y and the z axis is not detecting the altitude correctly

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  • J

    Tracking Camera Black Frames

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    @Chad-Sweet Thanks. So it sounds like a full re-flash is probably the best check to re-install base software (I'm not aware of any modifications, but came onto the project after it started) and check that connection. If the issue persists with both units, kick off an RMA? Appreciate all your help.
  • Arpit ParasharA

    How to put custom tflite model and visualize results in voxl-portal in voxl m500

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    Chad SweetC
    We don't have a guide on our own, but Google should have plenty of guides and examples You'll need to add your own post processing function in this area of the code Here is Google's guide on how to postprocess tflite data https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/inference_with_metadata/lite_support
  • Steve SagerS

    Integration of range finding sensor with m500

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  • Steve SagerS

    M500 ToF Sensor Integration

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  • Darshit DesaiD

    VOXL 1 PX4 firmware question

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    Chad SweetC
    flight Core v1 is what is found on VOXL Flight
  • Steve SagerS

    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.
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    VOXL m500 crash

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    Hello, This is third time I do this, because the questions I did are a very important issue and my company and I want to solve what happened during the flight. So if you have any answer to the questions I did 27 days ago please respond them. Gonzalo
  • José QuintanillaJ

    QGC shows me a gps error with my m500 drone and M8N gps

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    Chad SweetC
    You need to be outdoors, with clear visibility to the sky, to receive GPS
  • Steve SagerS

    How to send MAVSDK commands from Raspberry Pi AI to the M500

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    Chad SweetC
    Please review the External UDP Mavlink Connection documentation