Broken Parts

Bright Nnadi · 26 Jul 2022, 18:56

Hey Tom , So i am trying to set up the VOXL CAM now. I have turned it on using the power module and the USB and the LED is solid green but I am not seeing the VOXL wifi.

tom · 26 Jul 2022, 19:02

@Bright-Nnadi When you say you aren't seeing the VOXL WiFi, are you saying you want VOXL to be in SoftAP and are trying to connect to it with a computer? Or are you trying to put it in station mode and have it connect to an external network?

Bright Nnadi · 26 Jul 2022, 19:08

@tom I am following the VOXL CAM Start guide and it says to connect to the VOXL wifi after powering it on. I am trying to connect it to my computer

tom · 26 Jul 2022, 19:10

@Bright-Nnadi Are you using ADB in order to access the VOXL's shell? If so, what is the output of ifconfig ?

Bright Nnadi · 26 Jul 2022, 20:04

@tom output

Bright Nnadi · 26 Jul 2022, 20:22

Tom right now I'm using the ADB and I want to enable the station mode. what SSID and password Im using for the command line adb shell voxl-wifi station <SSID> <Passowrd>

tom · 26 Jul 2022, 21:42

@Bright-Nnadi Apologies I mean running ifconfig in adb shell

You will do the following:

adb shell

voxl-wifi station SSID PASS

where SSID is the name of the WiFi network you want to connect to and PASS is the password of that network.

You'll want to connect to whatever network your ground station is also connected to.

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 13:39

@tom For some reason i am not able to get into the adb shell. And I am also using my organization's network which is private.

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 14:06

@tom I'm trying to set up ADB now but this is happening

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 14:39

@tom @Alex-Gardner I successfully installed adb but i am not still able to detect my VOXL CAM

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 14:54

tom · 27 Jul 2022, 17:22

@Bright-Nnadi Are you using a Virtual Machine or are you running Ubuntu natively?

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 18:26

@tom I am running ubuntu on my windows

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 18:29

@tom is it possible we have a remote meeting?

tom · 27 Jul 2022, 18:57

@Bright-Nnadi I would recommend running Ubuntu natively on your ground station, this has worked for others who have issues when using a Virtual Machine. USB pass-through is often iffy.

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 19:13

@tom but I don’t have a gcs step up yet. I just want to turn out the camera.

tom · 27 Jul 2022, 19:27

@Bright-Nnadi I'm confused what you're asking. If you want to do any sort of configuration/setup you'll have to get ADB working, which I would use Ubuntu natively on your machine in order to do that

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 20:43

@tom I’m getting confused too. So I’m following y’all’s documentation. I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop natively and I have tried all the AdB commands y’all provided to active ADB but it did not work. If you can please give me a detail ordered steps to follow to have ADB activated then use the station mode to access the VOXL CAM.

tom · 27 Jul 2022, 21:17

@Bright-Nnadi In a terminal, run dmesg -wH, then power your VOXL CAM and plug in USB to your machine, do you see any output in dmesg showing that the hardware is detected at all? If so, post it here and I can see what's going on.

Bright Nnadi · 27 Jul 2022, 21:21

@tom This is what I'm seeing