Vio low frequency in Qgroundcontrol/ rc slow response

stevedan

@Eric-Katzfey Maybe you can help me fixed but the vio result on Qgroundcontrol is streaming at 1hz, and the reaction speed of the remote control on Qgroundcontrol is really bad. It reacts slow, is there something I am doing wrong
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What is strange is that from the drone, the vio data ms is fine voxl2:~$ voxl-inspect-qvio
waiting for server

This is a video of what I mean-> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122cPZ1S3Z_gP0yo8nipRGJHqpJTSj9c3?usp=sharing

Eric Katzfey

@stevedan Is this with original code or with the new code I just provided?

stevedan

@Eric-Katzfey with the new code. I just calibrated and followed the steps on the sentinel integration page.

stevedan

@Eric-Katzfey i used the software binding for the rc and setup the voxl px4 vision hub as usual.

James Strawson

@stevedan

That's correct. QGC gets a low data rate stream for telemetry only, devices onboard VOXL can access much higher data rates without the wireless link bottleneck.

The "normal" telemetry mavlink data rates are defined by PX4 here:
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/mavlink/mavlink_main.cpp#L1490

The faster "onboard" data rates are defined here:
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/mavlink/mavlink_main.cpp#L1545

From a VOXL shell, you can use the new voxl-inspect-mavlink tool to see the actual data rates being sent by PX4.

voxl-inspect-mavlink mavlink_to_gcs
voxl-inspect-mavlink mavlink_onboard

Note, the configuration for the mavlink-to-gcs broadcaster lives here
https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/blob/voxl-dev/boards/modalai/voxl2/target/voxl-px4-start#L191

stevedan

@James-Strawson, is this documented somewhere because this change is different from the previous versions and it might seem like a problem when it isn't. I will fly the drone on Tuesday and give update on this.

stevedan

@James-Strawson Is it possible to modify this rates?

Eric Katzfey

@stevedan The mavlink rates are all configured in /usr/bin/voxl-px4-start. Look at the end of that file. You can change it to whatever you like.

stevedan

@Eric-Katzfey Thanks, problem solved.