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Flight Core, Flight Core v2, Flight Core ArduPilot, the original VOXL, VOXL Flight, VOXL Flight Deck, VOXL-CAM and the older dev kits.

  • VOXL FLight Deck + ROS/MAVROS

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    alfa budimanA
    I haven't tried it but I was just able to publish to /mavros/setpoint_velocity/cmd_vel_unstamped and the motor speed appeared to respond as expected when testing without propellers. This only works if the drone is set to offboard mode.
  • Propellers not Spinning / Calibration Issues

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    alfa budimanA
    Thanks. I got it working and it appears to be calibrated. It also appears to be responding as intended with MAVROS when I publish to /mavros/setpoint_velocity/cmd_vel_unstamped I tested with props off and powered via battery. I published 0,0,1,0 corresponding with vertical speed of 1 m/s up and the motors sped up. I then published 0,0,-1,0 and the motors slowed down as expected.
  • /run/mpa/hires not running after firmware update

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    Chad SweetC
    The hires channel was renamed to hires_preview, it's identical otherwise
  • Latest PX4 version for VOXLCAM

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    Hello @modaltb Thanks for the response. I can see tags on modalai px4-firmware repo for 1.13 so I was asking. By any chance can I test latest tag v1.13 from modalai px4-firmware repo? If no what's the time by which v1.13 would be officially supported on VOXLCAM? The feature I am looking for is Autotune vehicle which isn't supported on V1.11.
  • VOXL1 PX4 connection issue

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    Adrian HidalgoA
    @Gyeongmin-Kim if the board is too hot to touch, then that is an issue. Did anything change between now and ten days ago? Can you send a couple of close up, high-resolution photos of both sides of the board?
  • Openvpn not updating from 2.1.3 to 2.4.6

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    tomT
    @Aks Ah okay, I wasn't using the systemd service so that makes sense.
  • Treatment of log for a ROVER with an odometer

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    Cliff WongC
    Looking at your mavlink log on estimator_visual_odometry_aligned, I can confirm VIO resetting to 0 at the moment your local position resets (picture #1). (pic 1) [image: 1659554580119-screenshot-from-2022-08-03-12-22-32.png] On a rover typically VIO will reset on 3 situations (everything else working normally as specified): Fast yaw transitions (I do see a large manual input/actuator output around that time--indicated on pic #2). To solve this, have your vehicle turn/tuned slower on yaw motions. auto-exposure not keeping up with rapid lighting conditions (high noon sunlight + tree shadows), the too much vehicle vibration (e.g. treads). From the logs it appears you have a max yaw/roll input into the rover, that indicates scenario #1 above. If you slow down you yaw movements may solve the problem, please try that 1st (there are other, more complicated options). (pic 2) [image: 1659554883412-screenshot-from-2022-08-03-12-26-11.png] What you can do aside from following the vio troubleshooting guide is to monitor the vio stream on QGC. In order to do that, you need to edit the voxl-streamer service file on VOXL. Basically: login to VOXL edit /etc/systemd/system/voxl-streamer.service on the Exec line that says /usr/bin/voxl-streamer, append to the end of it "-c qvio-overlay". cycle power and QGC video should show the VIO debug video (and not the high resolution stream), showing at the top: vio xyz position and number of features Run thru your test again to recreate the error, when it occurs, keep in mind the number of features, if it drops under 5, you'll see vio reset confirming the reset is due to one of 3 scenarios above. If not, post a video of that as it would be a configuration issue & we'd need to see the video stream on what's happening to debug further. Good luck.
  • Multiple tracking cameras

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    Andy JaroszA
    @Chad-Sweet said in Multiple tracking cameras: Yes, these fisheye modules plug in to the stereo flex adapter https://www.modalai.com/products/m0072 They are the same lens and sensor spec as the tracking sensor Thanks! I've yet to play around with the system--the platform can handle VIO with 2 cameras, from a system performance perspective?
  • landing_target_estimator not starting automatically

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    Chad SweetC
    Did you review the PX4 documentation? It looks like it has the command set here
  • Installation mpa-to-ros

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  • Conversion of ToF Depth Images to Distance

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    Great news! I had an older version without ToF Logging Thanks
  • 4K Main Camera Resolution

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    Eric KatzfeyE
    @sspiller The WiFi and MicroHard radios don't have any specific configuration needs for video streaming. They are just network interfaces. The issue will be with available bandwidth. If you want to stream a high resolution stream at 10Mbps and your radio can only support 5Mbps then you will lose a lot of packets and your video stream will not look very good.
  • smsc Lan95xx driver

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    Hello, The driver you are looking for (SMSC95XX) was recently added to our kernel build. It has not made its way to a platform release yet so you'll have to build kernel and flash your device with it. From the information given, I believe you are on the VOXL2 platform. If this assumption is incorrect let me know and I'll link the instructions for building the VOXL1 kernel. Here are the instructions for building the VOXL2 kernel. In order to build the kernel, you'll want to clone this qrb5165-kernel-build-docker repository. This project builds a docker image that we then use in order to build the kernel for the qrb5165 (VOXL2) device. For instructions on how to do so, you can look at our VOXL2 Kernel Build Guide. Once the kernel is flashed, you'll have the driver enabled on your device. Please let me know if you run into any issues.
  • Cooling solution for VOXLCAM

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    Hi, We've run into this issue as well when the VOXL-CAM is sitting on a desk, for which we've designed this cooling stand. As for when the cam is in motion on a body, we've only flown it on the seeker where the propwash is enough to keep the unit cool enough to utilize all of the cores fully. The cam unit wasn't designed around that smaller fan, we use that primarily on our other platforms with an open board where we can direct air directly onto the board. As for QVIO, we've also seen this behavior when cores shut down, but we try to avoid overheating at all costs, and generally don't carry any expectation for software to continue operating properly once the pmic is shutting down cores. Generally, I'd recommend : Trying to make sure that the cam is placed on a spot on your drone with as much airflow as possible Optimizing your code as much as possible to minimize CPU utilization Download the latest software release (3.8.0-0.7) from here since we've spent most of the last year improving and optimizing our services and libraries and there should be significant improvements since 3.3.0 was released
  • VOXL not connecting to QGC

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    Bright NnadiB
    @Steve-Turner Hey please I need you help setting up ADB for my newly purchased VOXL CAM. I already started a discussion "Broken parts".
  • Issue with aftermarket PMU and UAVCAN on FW 1.11.3

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    Chad SweetC
    Have you asked in the px4.slack.com Slack channel? All of the developers are there and there is tons of good support. They would probably have better recommendations on how to add the driver properly than we would.
  • Voxl-tflite-server error while using DeepLabV3

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    Maxim TempM
    @Matt-Turi Wow, thank you for updating me. I will try these models now
  • GPS time

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    @Chris-P to answer my own question, I checked the voxl-vision-px4 code and the system time will be set once from gps time (when valid) if it has not been set yet by ntp or manually.
  • ZMQ library

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    Thanks Steve, I went to compile the source code with the voxl emulator and it compiled without issues.
  • VOXL CAM/Seeker Drone Power Supply Question

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    @Adrian-Hidalgo Appreciate the response, thank you!