Hello @ROBERT-JUDD and @somalley ,
Thank you for following up and I appreciate your feedback. I have relayed your comments (again) to the team and will push to get the workaround out.
For Starling 2 Max, the workaround is to install a mast, so we are working on making those details available. Shielding the GPS receiver in the default location is not as effective. Please refer to the testing done with a mast in the center of the drone in this thread : https://forum.modalai.com/topic/4226/starling-2-max-no-gps-data/38 . However, the workaround is probably going to have the mast in the back of the Starling 2 Max.
For Starling 2, @somalley , a similar solution should be possible (with a mast). We are targeting the fix for the Starling 2 Max first, however you may be able to use the same approach (elevate the GPS receiver as well as getting it farther from the usb wifi dongle, which is right under the gps receiver, and seems to cause interference sometimes on Starling 2). We have seen improvement on Starling 2 when the wifi dongle is mounted elsewhere, but also elevating the GPS receiver should help as well as putting a small shield at the bottom.
voxl-portal now supports displaying the GPS SNR, so it should be easier to validate the signal improvements based on SNR directly (as opposed to time to lock, etc).
Again, sorry for the inconvenience and I will check in a few days regarding the status of the workaround.
Alex