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Issues with controller and drone

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  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

    @daniellee So when you power cycle the drone and then adb in and do voxl-inspect-services which services are not enabled and running that you think should be? In your earlier screen shot voxl-px4, and voxl-mavlink-server were both enabled and running. What other services do you think you need for flight? That's all that should be required for manual flight mode.

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    @Eric-Katzfey I understand that but do you know why the controller inputs arent being received by the drone? We have no idea what is causing this.

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      @Eric-Katzfey I understand that but do you know why the controller inputs arent being received by the drone? We have no idea what is causing this.

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      @daniellee I don't know what that means. If you can see the RC sticks / switches at QGC then PX4 has to be seeing them. What happens when you try to arm the drone from QGC?

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      • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

        @daniellee I don't know what that means. If you can see the RC sticks / switches at QGC then PX4 has to be seeing them. What happens when you try to arm the drone from QGC?

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        @Eric-Katzfey It gets armed but the drone does not fly/respond to the controller inputs.

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          @Eric-Katzfey It gets armed but the drone does not fly/respond to the controller inputs.

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          @daniellee Ah, okay, now we're getting somewhere. If it is arming that means you see the propellers spinning? Can you send me the log file from px4? (Look in /data/px4/logs).

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          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

            @daniellee Ah, okay, now we're getting somewhere. If it is arming that means you see the propellers spinning? Can you send me the log file from px4? (Look in /data/px4/logs).

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            @Eric-Katzfey Hi Eric Im not at the computer right now and the px4 logs are the same as the ones above, the props arent spinning even when armed on QGroundControl.

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              @Eric-Katzfey Hi Eric Im not at the computer right now and the px4 logs are the same as the ones above, the props arent spinning even when armed on QGroundControl.

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              @daniellee I don't see any log files attached in this thread.

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              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                @daniellee I don't see any log files attached in this thread.

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                @Eric-Katzfey I have the PX4 log files in a zipped folder but I do not see a way to upload them to the forum.

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                • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                  @daniellee I don't see any log files attached in this thread.

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                  @Eric-Katzfey Hello Eric I have downloaded the PX4 logs- I managed to get a link for one of the logs, the internal timestamp is messed up and I believe this is the most recent one. Here is the link : https://logs.px4.io/plot_app?log=db2c6cd3-f6c9-4bf8-b5bc-dc5ac185c752

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                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                    @daniellee So when you power cycle the drone and then adb in and do voxl-inspect-services which services are not enabled and running that you think should be? In your earlier screen shot voxl-px4, and voxl-mavlink-server were both enabled and running. What other services do you think you need for flight? That's all that should be required for manual flight mode.

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                    @Eric-Katzfey said in Issues with controller and drone:

                    In your earlier screen shot voxl-px4, and voxl-mavlink-server were both enabled and running.

                    Just to be clear, that image you are referencing was the second photo related to the voxl-inspect-services after I enabled and started the px4 service. The first photo shows it not enabled and not running.

                    Upon power cycling, I have to enable it every time we attempt to fly.

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                      @Eric-Katzfey Hello Eric I have downloaded the PX4 logs- I managed to get a link for one of the logs, the internal timestamp is messed up and I believe this is the most recent one. Here is the link : https://logs.px4.io/plot_app?log=db2c6cd3-f6c9-4bf8-b5bc-dc5ac185c752

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                      @daniellee This log shows a normal flight happening in altitude hold mode. RC inputs are coming in and motors are spinning. Was there some issue with the flight this log was captured from?

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