LTE Modem "Feather is Disabled"
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Hi @scottesicdrone ,
Just to make sure I understand your setup, are you using a v1 modem or v2 modem?
Another question, did you previously run
voxl-configure-modem? If so there will be a service running in the background on boot attempting to connect to the LTE network.You can check the status of this service by running
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Thanks for the quick response! We are using a v1 modem.
We ranvoxl-configure-modempreviously so that definitely could be the case. Here is the output forsystemctl status -l voxl-modem:yocto:/# systemctl status -l voxl-modem ● voxl-modem.service - Modem Initialization Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/voxl-modem.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 00:00:08 UTC; 51 years 3 months ago Process: 2041 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 2824 (voxl-modem-star) CGroup: /system.slice/voxl-modem.service ├─2824 /bin/bash /usr/bin/voxl-modem-start.sh └─2907 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/voxl-modem --feather_configure Jan 01 00:00:06 apq8096 systemd[1]: Starting Modem Initialization... Jan 01 00:00:08 apq8096 systemd[1]: Started Modem Initialization. Jan 01 00:00:09 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2824]: Initializing v1 modem...Should I disable this service and try configuring and connecting?
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@scottesicdrone Okay great, if you went through the setup using
voxl-configure-modemthen you shouldn't need to run anything manually. Can I also see what your voxl-modem config file looks like:/etc/modalai/voxl-modem.conf? As a next step I would try rebooting and monitoring the status of the voxl-modem service withwatch systemctl status -l voxl-modem. -
Here is my
voxl-modem.conffile:{ "modem_type": "v1", "apn": "broadband", "world": "false", "microhard_ip": "192.168.168.100", "modallink": "false", "placeholder": "hello world" }I'm watching the service right now and here is where it is at currently
● voxl-modem.service - Modem Initialization Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/voxl-modem.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 00:01:23 UTC; 51 years 3 months ago Process: 2129 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 2853 (voxl-modem-star) CGroup: /system.slice/voxl-modem.service ├─2853 /bin/bash /usr/bin/voxl-modem-start.sh └─3364 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/voxl-modem --connect_to_network Apr 02 17:13:49 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Setting network preference to LTE Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Failed to open device Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Finished setting network preference Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Disabling band 5... Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: configband starting Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Band mask 1 to 32: 0x0000080a 0x0a 0x08 0x00 0x00 Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Band mask 33 to 64: 0x00000000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Band mask 65 to 96: 0x00000000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Error opening /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory Apr 02 17:13:59 apq8096 voxl-modem-start.sh[2853]: Initalizing cellular connection... -
@scottesicdrone Okay let's have you go through the steps manually to see if it's a timing issue.
First, disable the voxl-modem service ->
systemctl disable voxl-modemand reboot.Now, run the following:
voxl-modem --feather_configure-> this should bring up/dev/qcqmi0and/dev/ttyUSB0, make sure these exist before proceedingNext, run:
uqmi -P -d /dev/qcqmi0 --set-network-preference ltethen
configband write /dev/ttyUSB0 0x80aLastly, run
voxl-modem --conect_to_network -
I disabled the service and ran
voxl-modem --feather_configureand got this:Configuring GPIO pins Setting defaults: GPIO_PIN_WWAN_WAKEUP_IN = 1 GPIO_PIN_WWAN_POWER_ON_N = 1 GPIO_PIN_WWAN_RESET_N = 1 feather is DISABLED ENABLE WNC feather module feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED WARNING: feather state transtion failed. enable failed, try again 0 retries remaining ENABLE WNC feather module feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED WARNING: feather state transtion failed. enable failed, try again 1 retries remaining ENABLE WNC feather module feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLEDAnd this will keep going if I let it, I'm pretty sure. In the
/devfolder,/dev/qcqmi0exists but/dev/ttyUSB0doesn't exist. -
@scottesicdrone Thanks for the info, I will look into this behavior in order to get a solution for you
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Thanks, Tom, for the help! I really appreciate it! Is it possible that the serial port and the ports got renamed from
/dev/ttyACM0and/dev/ttyUSB0? I'm not too familiar with how these devices are generated or normal behavior for these devices. We have also noticed that this happened on two different VOXLs with the same v1 modem, so this problem seems to be with the modem and not the VOXL (though this is not something I am 100% certain about). -
@scottesicdrone I'm leaning toward it being a hardware issue with your modem. Did anything hardware related change from when it was working and wasn't working? Do you have any other v1 modems you can test with?
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Nothing physically changed that I can recall, and unfortunately, we don't have extra modems though we ordered more modems. Last potential useful bit of info: when I ran dmesg, I saw errors relating to qmi pop up but I don't know what to make of them:
yocto:/# dmesg | grep "qmi" [ 1.186410] usbcore: registered new interface driver qmi_wwan [ 1.187419] msm_sharedmem: sharedmem_register_qmi: qmi init successful [ 5.741357] sysmon_send_event_no_qmi: Message sending failed -19 [ 5.890086] type=1130 audit(7.556:61): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023 msg='unit=qmi_shutdown_modemd comm="systemd" exe="/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 5.903844] sysmon_send_event_no_qmi: Message sending failed -19 [ 5.903850] sysmon_send_event_no_qmi: Message sending failed -19 [ 5.908564] sysmon-qmi: sysmon_clnt_svc_arrive: Connection established between QMI handle and slpi's SSCTL service [ 5.914578] sysmon_send_event_no_qmi: Message sending failed -19 [ 6.039513] sysmon-qmi: sysmon_clnt_svc_arrive: Connection established between QMI handle and adsp's SSCTL service [ 6.523379] sysmon-qmi: sysmon_clnt_svc_arrive: Connection established between QMI handle and modem's SSCTL service [ 6.543970] msm_slim_qmi_send_power_request: QMI request failed 0x1 (Unknown error) [ 7.045169] msm_slim_qmi_send_power_request: QMI request failed 0x1 (Unknown error) [ 7.546548] msm_slim_qmi_send_power_request: QMI request failed 0x1 (Unknown error) [ 8.049225] msm_slim_qmi_send_power_request: QMI request failed 0x1 (Unknown error) -
Can you also run
voxl-versionso I can see what system image / package version you're using. -
Here is what I get when I run
voxl-version:yocto:/# voxl-version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- system-image: ModalAI 3.1.0 BUILDER: ekatzfey BUILD_TIME: 2020-12-23_19:41 kernel: #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 23 19:50:23 UTC 2020 3.18.71-perf factory-bundle: 1.0.1 (Yocto installation) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- architecture: aarch64 processor: apq8096 os: GNU/Linux -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- voxl-suite: Package: voxl-suite Version: 0.3.4 Depends: voxl-utils (>= 0.6.0), libmodal_json (>= 0.3.4), libmodal_pipe (>= 1.7.8), librc_math (>= 1.1.4), libvoxl_io (>= 0.5.4), mavlink-camera-manager (>= 0.0.1), opencv (>= 4.5.1), openmp (>= 10.0.1), voxl-camera-server (>= 0.5.6), voxl-dfs-server (>= 0.0.7), voxl-docker-support (>= 1.1.1), voxl-gphoto2 (>= 0.0.5), voxl-hal3-tof-cam-ros (>= 0.0.5), voxl-imu-server (>= 0.7.8), voxl-modem (>= 0.11.0), voxl-mpa-tflite-server (>= 0.0.2), voxl-mpa-tools (>= 0.1.6), voxl-nodes (>= 0.1.3), voxl-qvio-server (>= 0.2.1), voxl-rtsp (>= 1.0.3), voxl-streamer (>= 0.2.1), voxl-vision-px4 (>= 0.8.1), voxl-vpn (>= 0.0.3) Status: unknown ok not-installed Section: base Architecture: all Maintainer: james@modalai.com MD5Sum: e1e5bf1a125affe5036099f6ce895bed Size: 1818 Filename: voxl-suite_0.3.4.ipk Description: meta-package for voxl-suite stable release Package: voxl-suite Version: 0.2.0 Depends: docker, imu_app (= 0.0.6), libvoxl_io (= 0.5.2), voxl-cam-manager (= 0.2.2), voxl-docker-support (= 1.1.1), voxl-hal3-tof-cam-ros (= 0.0.2), voxl-modem (= 0.10.0), voxl-nodes (= 0.0.8), voxl-rtsp (= 1.0.2), voxl-utils (= 0.5.2), voxl-vision-px4 (= 0.6.8), voxl_imu (= 0.0.4), voxl-time-sync (= 0.0.1), voxl-vpn (= 0.0.2), librc_math (= 1.1.2), libmodal_pipe (= 1.2.2), modalai-vl (= 0.1.3) Status: install user installed Section: base Architecture: armv7a Maintainer: james@modalai.com MD5Sum: af706cd3c1ea59f274f2ed9b93141f1d Size: 870 Filename: voxl-suite_0.2.0.ipk Description: meta-package to install all of the voxl-suite Installed-Time: 689 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
Just to show you what a working modem would look like:
/ # voxl-modem --feather_configure Configuring GPIO pins Setting defaults: GPIO_PIN_WWAN_WAKEUP_IN = 1 GPIO_PIN_WWAN_POWER_ON_N = 1 GPIO_PIN_WWAN_RESET_N = 1 feather is DISABLED ENABLE WNC feather module feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is DISABLED feather is ENABLED, device detected: /dev/ttyUSB0It comes up within a few seconds. Good thought about qmi / dmesg, those errors will go away once the modem is powered up correctly by voxl-modem
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This makes a lot of sense. I have seen this working before but now it just says feather is DISABLED until it power cycles and repeats. So if I understand correctly, after a few seconds,
/dev/ttyUSB0will be created and then the feather is enabled? Also random question: what is a feather exactly? I haven't heard of this before and I tried to look into it but I'm still confused! -
@scottesicdrone Haha okay so "feather" is a remnant from the days that the VOXL predecessor was a Qualcomm product. The nickname for the project at the time was "Eagle", therefore a "feather" was the nickname for an add-on board for the Eagle. So any reference to "feather" in voxl-modem is just talking about the modem add-on board. An example of one of the VOXL's predecessors is currently powering NASA's "Ingenuity" Drone on Mars (https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/).
A little ModalAI lore for you that you won't find on Google
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Love the Lore and good thing to note! Last last thing, here is the link to an instance of me running
dmesgif that's of any use.
output here
I'm going to keep trying to figure this out because this is a time-sensitive situation but if we will know for sure if it's a hardware issue once we get another modem to test it on. Thanks for the help thus far! Anything else I should try on here? -
@scottesicdrone Thanks! I am going to have another resource take a look at the issue and I will update you with our conclusion. I will message you if anything else is needed.
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Sounds good, thanks!