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    M500 will not connect to QGC, but still has shh connection

    VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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    • Steve SagerS
      Steve Sager @tom
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      @tom I have a Ubuntu 20.04 machine will that be okay?

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      • Steve SagerS
        Steve Sager
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        looks like the problem was Windows. let me double check and I'll post again what happens but it is loading now...

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        • Steve SagerS
          Steve Sager
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          @tom would you happen to know how to get the ecdsa password for my aircraft?

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          • tomT
            tom admin
            last edited by

            @Steve-Sager If you're referring to the SSH login:

            Defaults are as follows
            user: root
            pass: oelinux123

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            • Steve SagerS
              Steve Sager @tom
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              @tom After following all the instructions and successfully flashing the new firmware onto the aircraft. I have connected to the ssh once again and set the QGC IP address to the correct laptop ip but the aircraft still isn't connecting to QGC.

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              • tomT
                tom admin
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                @Steve-Sager Here's something else to look at: https://docs.qgroundcontrol.com/master/en/troubleshooting/qgc_setup.html#waiting_for_connection

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                • Steve SagerS
                  Steve Sager @tom
                  last edited by

                  @tom I will be looking to the firewall to make sure it wasn't that, but we have allowed the application past the wall. Could this be related to to something else?

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                  • Steve SagerS
                    Steve Sager
                    last edited by

                    it looks like the previous command you had me run:
                    cat /etc/modalai/voxl-vision-px4.conf | grep qgc_ip
                    is giving me a different ip address than the one we put into voxl-vision-px4. how do I change that one to the correct address?

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                    • tomT
                      tom admin
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                      @Steve-Sager That's interesting, you can use vi to modify the file and enter the correct IP in the qgc_ip field, vi /etc/modalai/voxl-vision-px4.conf

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                      • tomT
                        tom admin
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                        I would also make sure that you're able to ping your PC from your drone.

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                        • Steve SagerS
                          Steve Sager
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                          SUCCESS! we have established connection to the aircraft. everything is working. @tom thanks so much for all your help

                          The solution was to update the aircraft using a linux system instead of windows.
                          Then we had to to use ssh-keygen to reconnect to the aircraft, and used the new aircraft ip address.
                          Finally we had to manually set the qgc ip twice.
                          We are now back up and running

                          Cheers!

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                          • tomT
                            tom admin
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                            @Steve-Sager Great to hear! Just to confirm you flashed the latest platform release, 0.9? Making a note of your issue. It's very unusual that you would have to manually edit the qgc_ip. Thank you for being patient.

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                            • Steve SagerS
                              Steve Sager @tom
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                              @tom Yeah I am on 0.9 platform release

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