Can't start PX4 PCA9685 Driver
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Hey hope yall are well,
I am trying to interface a PCA9685 onto J19 of the VOXL2 (and ultimately the VOXL 2 Mini). I have connected the chip to QUP0 (Magnetometer I2C) and am trying to start the px4 driver for the PCA9685 found here: https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/tree/main/src/drivers/pca9685_pwm_out
I have started PX4 outside of daemon mode and am running the command: px4-qshell pca9685_pwm_out start -a 0x40 -b $ (have tried multiple busses). Everytime I get the error in qshell: Command pca9685_pwm_out not found. I can't seem to find the documentation on how to load this driver onto the VOXL2. Any support would be helpful. I am running on the newest SDK.
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@cbay That driver is not part of the build nor has it ever been tested on VOXL 2. You would have to add it to the build (e.g. in https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/blob/voxl-dev/boards/modalai/voxl2-slpi/default.px4board)
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@Eric-Katzfey Sounds good, any tips or steps on how to add to the build and to upload to the board?
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@cbay Most of the way through the build process, was able to sort it out including the necessary edits to the PCA driver. Issue I am running into is both the dev and master branches of voxl-px4 require a newer version of libfc-sensor (1.0.9 and 1.0.10 respectively) then what is included in 1.6.2 of the SDK.
I am not sure how to upgrade this library
