VIO flying configuration

[Cristian Adam]

Looking at this guide:

VOXL m500 Using VIO

ModalAI technical documentation for VOXL and VOXL 2 Companion Computers for PX4 and ArduPilot Obstacle Avoidance and GPS-denied navigation, assembled in the USA

ModalAI Technical Docs (docs.modalai.com)

I seem to be able to run some of the commands, but not all of them:

voxl:/etc$ cd modalai/
voxl:/etc/modalai$ ls
docker-autorun-script.sh         voxl-imu-server.conf
extrinsics.conf                  voxl-mavlink-server.conf
modalai.png                      voxl-qvio-server.conf
tag_locations.conf               voxl-streamer.conf
voxl-camera-server.conf          voxl-tag-detector.conf
voxl-dfs-server.conf             voxl-tflite-server.conf
voxl-factory-bundle-version.txt  voxl-vision-px4.conf
voxl:/etc/modalai$ vi voxl-qvio-server.conf 
voxl:/etc/modalai$ systemctl status voxl-qvio-server
● voxl-qvio-server.service - voxl-qvio-server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/voxl-qvio-server; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-01-19 15:07:45 UTC; 4min 26s ago
 Main PID: 4322 (voxl-qvio-serve)
   CGroup: /system.slice/voxl-qvio-server.service
           └─4322 /usr/bin/voxl-qvio-server

Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: LNX_8096 supported? 1
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: LNX_IA64 supported? 1
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: WINDOWS supported? 0
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: AR ERROR: arFileOpen(): Fail...l
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: FASTCV: fcvAvailableHardware...x
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: mempool cur block size 30720...0
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: Please ignore the error abou...^
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: It's an optional file, and s...r
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: waiting for imu
Jan 19 15:07:45 apq8096 voxl-qvio-server[4322]: waiting for cam
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
voxl:/etc/modalai$ voxl-qvio-server-configure
bash: voxl-qvio-server-configure: command not found
voxl:/etc/modalai$ 

voxl-qvio-server-configure in particular isn't available, but the service seems to be running anyway, however voxl-qvio-client also doesn't work so it's hard to verify that it really is indeed the case of it working - looking for a way to fly without GPS initialization indoors

[A Former User]

Hi,

It looks like the data on that documentation page was erroneously copied over from a different platform, I'll update it shortly but in the future for QVIO needs this docs page is more actively maintained by the software team.

For reference the commands in the voxl sdk for doing the things you asked about are voxl-inspect-qvio and voxl-configure-qvio. These are the standard formats for the commands in our SDK, so you can tab out voxl-inspect- or voxl-configure- to see all of the other things you can inspect or configure.