# Qualcomm RB5 - Remote ID

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/2329/qualcomm-rb5-remote-id
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2023-06-26 17:57:01 UTC by doe43john77
Replies: 16 · Views: 2740

## doe43john77 · 2023-06-26 17:57:01 UTC

Good afternoon, I have been trying to get the remote ID to work on RB5. I followed the steps in the technical document, and everything was working well until I had to check voxl-remote-id status. I end up getting something like this which is in the technical document.  My device is already in SoftAP mode.
voxl:/$ systemctl status voxl-remote-id
   voxl-remote-id.service - voxl-remote-id
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/voxl-remote-id; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 02:19:30 UTC; 52 years 9 months ago
 Main PID: 2447 (voxl-remote-id)
   CGroup: /system.slice/voxl-remote-id.service
           └─2447 /usr/bin/voxl-remote-id

Jan 01 02:19:30 apq8096 systemd[1]: Started voxl-remote-id.
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Remote ID SN: 1814C4056553343
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO:    Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-06-29 14:23:13 UTC

Is there any solution or feedback to the above problem.

## Reply by Eric Katzfey (ModalAI staff) · 2023-06-29 15:59:00 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 It's acting like the softap mode didn't get setup correctly. Are you able to connect to the drone over WiFi? Is there anything in the directory `/data/misc/wifi/hostapd`?

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-06-30 13:48:34 UTC (in reply to Eric Katzfey)

@Eric-Katzfey Yes, I am able to connect the drone over WiFi.

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-06-30 13:54:03 UTC (in reply to Eric Katzfey)

@Eric-Katzfey Also isn't hostapd a conf. file

## Reply by Eric Katzfey (ModalAI staff) · 2023-06-30 16:50:18 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 Here's what I have:
```
voxl2-mini:/$ cd /data/misc/wifi/
voxl2-mini:/data/misc/wifi$ ls
hostapd  hostapd.conf  wlan_mode  wpa_supplicant.conf
voxl2-mini:/data/misc/wifi$ ls -l
total 80
drwxr-x--- 2 root root  4096 Jun 29 15:56 hostapd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66860 Jun 29 15:56 hostapd.conf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     8 Jun 29 16:18 wlan_mode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   444 Jun 29 16:18 wpa_supplicant.conf
voxl2-mini:/data/misc/wifi$ cd hostapd
voxl2-mini:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ ls
wlan0
voxl2-mini:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ ls -l
total 0
srwxrwx--- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 15:56 wlan0
voxl2-mini:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ 
```

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-07-03 18:54:32 UTC (in reply to Eric Katzfey)

@Eric-Katzfey This is what i have when I do what you did above. I add the hostapd into the directory and copied the hostapd.conf into the hostapd directory.
rb5:~$ cd /data/misc/wifi/ 
rb5:/data/misc/wifi$ ls
hostapd             hostapd.conf           wpa_supplicant.conf
hostapd-wlan1.conf  sta_mode_hostapd.conf
hostapd-wlan2.conf  wlan_mode
rb5:/data/misc/wifi$ ls -l
total 284
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 30 16:23 hostapd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66929 Oct 13  2022 hostapd-wlan1.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66929 Oct 13  2022 hostapd-wlan2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66928 Jun 30 18:31 hostapd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66927 Oct 13  2022 sta_mode_hostapd.conf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     7 Jun 30 18:31 wlan_mode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   234 Jun 30 18:31 wpa_supplicant.conf
rb5:/data/misc/wifi$ cd hostapd
rb5:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ ls
hostapd.conf
rb5:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ ls -l
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66928 Jun 30 16:11 hostapd.conf
rb5:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-07-05 17:53:24 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 Checking for an update

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-07-06 14:29:46 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@Eric-Katzfey what needs to be contained in the wlan0 file

## Reply by tom (ModalAI staff) · 2023-07-06 18:25:57 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 I was able to recreate the issue and we are working on a solution

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-07-10 13:56:05 UTC (in reply to tom)

@tom Good morning, is there an update on the solution.

## Reply by tom (ModalAI staff) · 2023-07-10 20:32:30 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 It's on our list, but no movement yet

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-07-17 12:10:53 UTC (in reply to tom)

@tom Good morning any updates on the Remote ID

## Reply by Eric Katzfey (ModalAI staff) · 2023-07-17 15:46:48 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 It's probably going to be a couple of weeks before we can provide something.

## Reply by doe43john77 · 2023-08-01 13:33:53 UTC (in reply to Eric Katzfey)

@Eric-Katzfey Good morning, Is there any update on Remote ID? Thank you!

## Reply by Eric Katzfey (ModalAI staff) · 2023-08-03 14:38:32 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 No, sorry, it's on our list for the next release but we haven't had a chance to look at it yet

## Reply by tom (ModalAI staff) · 2023-09-26 16:32:20 UTC (in reply to doe43john77)

@doe43john77 A fix has been put in place in voxl-remote-id v0.0.9