Flir Boson over m0153 setup

Matthew Wellner

Hi,

I followed the guide posted here: https://docs.modalai.com/M0153/#boson-software-setup but I'm having trouble getting the boson camera detected by voxl-camera-server (voxl-camera-server -l detects my tracking and hires cameras already just not the boson). I also noticed that voxl-configure-cameras options 36 and 37 don't exist in the version I am running (SDK 1.5.0 / voxl-camera-server 2.2.4)

I have the board side of the M0153 physically connected to the J8 socket and I copied the boson bin files from the /usr/share/modalai/chi-cdk/ into /usr/lib/camera

Thanks in advance for the help!

Matthew Wellner

@Alex-Kushleyev - I'm not sure if you are the right person to ask, but I was hoping you could help me figure out the issue I am having above?

tom

@Matthew-Wellner You'll have to load a different kernel in order to enable those camera configs. If you run through the SDK install you'll want to select the kernel that enables M0173 support.

Matthew Wellner

@tom Should I have kernel version 1.0.1 installed instead of 1.0.0? I don't have a M0173 board. I was connecting the boson cable directly according to the directions here: https://docs.modalai.com/M0153/#boson-software-setup - Do I need the M0173?

Alex Kushleyev

@Matthew-Wellner , you do not need kernel version 1.0.1, since that is only applicable to M0173.

If you are connecting Boson to J8 via M0153, then it will have the slot ID 4, so sensormodule with index 4 would need to be placed in /usr/lib/camera. Can you please confirm?

Also, when you run voxl-camera-server -l, can you please use dmesg -w to grab the output of the kernel from the moment that you run the camera server list command.

Also, just to double check, are you able to communicate with Boson via USB?

Alex