Starling Position and Manual Mode dysfunctional

Eric Katzfey

@ijones2 Did you have any good flights after updating to 1.3.3?

ijones2

Yes!

I had several good flights with 1.3.3. I also had good flights with 1.1.3 as well.

Eric Katzfey

@ijones2 Might be worth a try then to do a fresh installation of 1.3.3 and see if that helps. Perhaps a file got corrupted somewhere and a fresh installation will clear it out. Can you also inspect the motors carefully? It's possible some debris got into one of them and it's causing it to occasionally get hung up. Really not sure what's going on but I think the fresh installation of 1.3.3 would be a good start.

ijones2

@Eric-Katzfey

Ok! Will do? How might I go about a fresh installation on a package I already have?

Zachary Lowell 0

@ijones2 you can download the most recent SDK from the following: https://developer.modalai.com/

Download the voxl2 most recent SDK and then untar the .gz file and open up a terminal, cd into the untarred directory and run the ./install.sh script - this will prompt you to wipe the voxl2 and upgrade the SDK and give you the abiltiy to assign it the necessary parameters for the starling!

ijones2

@Zachary-Lowell-0

Awesome! Thank you! I will do that then!

ijones2

@Zachary-Lowell-0 @Eric-Katzfey

Hello!

So I have updated the starling to VOXL Suite 1.3.5. However when it was done updating it said:

"FAILED TO EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING STEPS: VOXL-CONFIGURE-CAMERAS 6"

Which I temporarily ignored until I checked the web portal camera, the qvio overlay was blank and it was the only option that showed up. The feed said "ERR: CAM_MISSING_STALLED". Also, in QGC it said
"SWITCHING TO POSITION CONTROL IS CURRENTLY NOT POSSIBLE. NO VALID LOCAL POSITION ESTIMATE."

The drone flew fine in manual mode, but its not arming in position mode. How can I fix this?

Zachary Lowell 0

Sounds like the cameras were not configured properly - @ijones2 can you run voxl-configure-cameras hit enter and select the option that matches your sensors and locations for mipi placement.

Also once this is done what is outputted when you run voxl-camera-server directly from the command line?

ijones2

@Zachary-Lowell-0 @Eric-Katzfey

So i went into the voxl-configure-cameras and saw the list:

26 - M0173 with Tof imx412 and dual AR0144
27 - M0173 with Tof imx412 and triple AR0144
28 - M0173 with Dual IMX412 and Dual AR0144
29 - M0173 with TOF dual IMX412 and Dual AR0144
30 - M0173 with Dual TOF DUAL IMX412 and dual AR0144
36 - M0173 with imx412 and dual AR0144
37 - M0173 with Tof imx412, dual AR0144, and boson
c - use user defined custom camera config in
q - quit

I selected 26 and 27 then ran voxl-camera-server and it said "ERROR: Found zero cameras connected, need at least one" after each selection.

hmmmm I'm a little lost now

Zachary Lowell 0

@ijones2 said in Starling Position and Manual Mode dysfunctional:

26 - M0173 with Tof imx412 and dual AR0144

@ijones2 if you check the belly of the voxl2 you will be able to tell if the M0173 is connected into the voxl2 base (which based off your photos above I do not believe it is) - this is the m0173(https://www.modalai.com/products/m0173?variant=48528274391344) - if you do not have that base board, then you have selected the wrong option. It might be easier to do a custom camera config - if you run voxl-configure-cameras C and then it will spit out that you need ot fill out a custom file, you can the use vim or nano to open the custom_camera_config.txt file in /data/modalai/ and then populate the J6,J7,J8 MIPIS with your camear setup and then run voxl-configure-cameras C again.

Otherwise if this is too complicated, you can also just select the version of voxl-configure-cameras that isnt 26/27 since it seems like you are not using the M0173 adapter as well.

ijones2

@Zachary-Lowell-0

Hello! I was able to reinstall 1.3.5 and that somehow fixed it! I am not going to question it lol.

Now I'm trying to find out how to install voxl-mapper and I can't find documentation for it. I am flying the drone inside a test lab. Today when I was flying it around the room, the drone was not mapping anything. The 2D/3D map was blank when I went to plan a point. I think it's blank because I am missing voxl-mapper especially since I have camera-server, vision hub, voxl-px4 and qvio enabled/running. All I have seen is that I have to change "offboard_mode": "trajectory", in order to plan a point on the map and have the drone fly to it.

Is there any documentation on getting voxl-mapper and planning a point?