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Zachary Lowell 0

Hi @davidtorresm,

I dont believe ros2 foxy nor mpa-to-ros2 was included in the 1.8 release - please run the following to pull down the packages individually:

wget http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dists/qrb5165/dev/binary-arm64/voxl-mpa-to-ros2_0.1.0-202610080956_arm64.deb

wget http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dists/qrb5165/dev/binary-arm64/voxl-ros2-foxy_0.0.1-202511141235_arm64.deb

Obvioulsy you will need internet to leverage the wget- but once those are pulled - feel free to just run sudo dpkg -i on both those packages followed by a voxl-configure-mpa-to-ros2

Zach

Eric Katzfey

You can email sales@modalai.com to ask about that.

tom

On the Wi-Fi questions:

The -M36 option ships with an Alfa Network AWUS036EACS (802.11ac AC600, dual band 2.4/5 GHz, Realtek chipset, made in Taiwan). It is listed on the Starling 2 Max datasheet.
Yes, you can use a different USB adapter, as long as the VOXL 2 kernel has a driver for its chipset. You cannot install arbitrary vendor drivers without rebuilding kernel modules, so pick an adapter based on one of the Realtek chipsets we support: RTL8812AU or RTL8821CU / RTL8811CU. The adapters we have tested are listed on the VOXL 2 WiFi Setup page. If you find a Japan-certified (Giteki) adapter with one of those chipsets, it should work with voxl-wifi in both Station and SoftAP mode.
If you cannot find a certified adapter with a supported chipset, another option is a USB-to-Ethernet adapter on VOXL 2 connected to a small Japan-certified Wi-Fi bridge or travel router on the drone. VOXL 2 only sees Ethernet, so there are no driver constraints.
In SoftAP mode the default hostapd country code is US. For use in Japan, set country_code=JP in /data/misc/wifi/hostapd.conf after running voxl-wifi so the radio uses Japanese channel and power rules.

Eric Katzfey

Normally our customers start with the Starling 2 Max. Once they are comfortable with how everything works they design a custom drone around the VOXL 2 board and then just buy the boards after that. Designing a custom drone is very difficult.

Eric Katzfey

I would encourage you to read through the PX4 documentation to decide which failsafes are available and how you want your drone to use them. They are configurable and can be set for your preferences. I'll try to get answers for the remaining questions.

Eric Katzfey

I can help with some of those questions. The VOXL 2 board runs both PX4 and ArduPilot flight controller software. So you can review the documentation for those and decide which one best fits your needs. They both have logging capabilities and both have parameters that can be used to tune the flight characteristics. VOXL 2 is the circuit board, and Starling 2 Max is our development drone that uses a VOXL 2 board.

Eric Katzfey

Regarding RC receiver, yes you can fly without it. You can use a joystick via QGC instead. Or, you can just fly missions that don't require any RC input. You should be able to swap in a 2.4 GHz receiver. VOXL2 has no support for S.BUS so make sure it has a standard 4 wire UART. Just use the same port that the current ELRS receiver is connected to. You shouldn't have to change any parameters.

Eric Katzfey

There's some documentation here: https://docs.px4.io/main/en/flight_modes/offboard#ros-2-offboard-control. I would review that to make sure you are following the correct procedures.

Vinny

Resolving this over email.
Thanks!

Vinny

Hi @jeremyrbrown5
There are about 45 components missing on your board to enable ToF support, it is not standard practice for us to provide variant transition instructions for numerous reasons.
I'll talk to the team and see if we should reach out over email to guide you further if you are willing to take the risk..

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