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    "Adopted" drone, help setting up

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      tom admin @jbhines929
      last edited by 3 Jun 2025, 20:31

      @jbhines929 Does your drone have a VOXL on it as well? Or just microhard and some other hardware?

      J 1 Reply Last reply 4 Jun 2025, 11:08 Reply Quote 0
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        jbhines929 @tom
        last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 11:08

        @tom Thanks for the reply. It is a VOXL Flight, so far as I can tell. Has the microhard 'hat' on it. I was able to connect USB. I found a tutorial on your website about setting up the microhard. I was able to connect with USB and ADB and able to go through the setup steps. I appear to be able to ping the VOXL from the GCS computer. I wasn't able to connect yet with MP or QGC, but that may have been because I only had a USB boot Ubuntu and not a full install. (USGOVT computer and it's a pain to install non supported OSes) Hope to find out more later.

        voxlnew.jpg

        T 1 Reply Last reply 4 Jun 2025, 16:45 Reply Quote 0
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          tom admin @jbhines929
          last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 16:45

          @jbhines929 I'm curious what SDK is on that voxl-flight (It's been a while since I've worked with VOXL 1 personally so it'll take me a sec to get my brain aligned)

          What do you see if you ADB in and run the following:

          voxl-version
          
          voxl-inspect-services
          
          J 1 Reply Last reply 4 Jun 2025, 17:37 Reply Quote 0
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            jbhines929 @tom
            last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 17:37

            @tom no worries! It is a very old system by drone terms. I believe it was acquired in 2020. voxl_version.jpg

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              jbhines929 @jbhines929
              last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 17:37

              @jbhines929 VOXL_inspect_services.jpg

              looks like a lot of services aren't running

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                jbhines929 @jbhines929
                last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 17:44

                @jbhines929 would following the procedure here: https://docs.modalai.com/flash-system-image/ reset it to factory defaults?

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                  tom admin @jbhines929
                  last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 17:48

                  @jbhines929 I would recommend loading the latest VOXL 1 SDK: 1.2.0 which can be downloaded from downloads.modalai.com

                  You'll want to follow the steps here: https://docs.modalai.com/flash-system-image/#flashing-a-voxl-sdk-release

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                    jbhines929 @tom
                    last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 18:55

                    @tom I appear to have been successful in updating that. I still haven't been able to connect to VOXL via microhard on QGC. What is the port to use?

                    T 1 Reply Last reply 4 Jun 2025, 19:49 Reply Quote 0
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                      tom admin @jbhines929
                      last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 19:49

                      @jbhines929 You'll want to establish a connection like this, where "Server Address" is the IP of the VOXL on the microhard network

                      You can check this with ifconfig on VOXL

                      bac0c119-167f-4f77-9a0e-a08ddcf69cde-image.png

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                        tom admin @tom
                        last edited by 4 Jun 2025, 19:49

                        @tom On VOXL make sure you've run voxl-configure-modem and selected microhard in the menu

                        J 1 Reply Last reply 5 Jun 2025, 11:51 Reply Quote 0
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                          jbhines929 @tom
                          last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 11:51

                          @tom I tried that just now. I am able to ping across the microhard network. I can ping the laptop -> VOXL. I can ping VOXL -> laptop, I can even ping each microhard device from either the VOXL or the laptop. It just seems to not be making that final link to QGC. I ran and reran voxl-configure-modem, selecting microhard. I tried with both the default IP and a custom IP. Do I have to do some kind of configureation with teh mavlink server? (I am getting way out of my depth here, lol)

                          J 1 Reply Last reply 5 Jun 2025, 11:56 Reply Quote 0
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                            jbhines929 @jbhines929
                            last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 11:56

                            @jbhines929 (I should also specifiy that this is on a personal, fully open laptop, tried on Windows 11 and on Ubuntu) So there shouldn't be any security settings in the way re: ports.

                            J 1 Reply Last reply 5 Jun 2025, 12:09 Reply Quote 0
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                              jbhines929 @jbhines929
                              last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 12:09

                              @jbhines929 Ok I retract the last post. I just tried again and I am able to connect over Microhard/QGC on windows. Ubuntu wasn't working, but seems like Windows is functional. I'll do some more tests. Otherwise, thank you very much for your assistance!

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                                tom admin @jbhines929
                                last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 16:57

                                @jbhines929 Interesting I wonder if that port is being blocked on your Ubuntu machine for some reason

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                                  jbhines929 @jbhines929
                                  last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 17:22

                                  @jbhines929 I was able to do a test flight, however in Position mode it won't hold gps position (even though I have good # satellites). I wonder if this is something due to the optical flow and VOXL?

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                                    tom admin @jbhines929
                                    last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 18:03

                                    @jbhines929 Hmm I would make sure you have the correct px4 parameter set loaded on your flight core, i.e. "outdoor_gps.params" from https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/utilities/voxl-px4-params/-/blob/master/params/v1.14/EKF2_helpers/outdoor_gps.params?ref_type=heads

                                    J 1 Reply Last reply 5 Jun 2025, 19:41 Reply Quote 0
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                                      jbhines929 @tom
                                      last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 19:41

                                      @tom Thank you very much for all your help on this. I ended up getting it to work, not sure why it wasnt on Ubuntu earlier. Probably user error! 🙂

                                      Honestly, got to our wits end with it and a colleague ended up blasting the PX4 firmware and putting Arducopter on it. Seems to be working fine now, with VOXL apparently just handling sending packets to the microhard. I really appreciate your support and answering my questions, they were most helpful.

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                                        tom admin @jbhines929
                                        last edited by 5 Jun 2025, 19:57

                                        @jbhines929 No problem, thanks for the patience!

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