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Offboard mode and ROS2 with Rb5

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    Hi
    I have the following rb5:

    system-image: 1.7.1-M0052-14.1a-perf-nightly-20231025
    kernel: #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 26 05:24:02 UTC 2023 4.19.125

    hw version: M0052

    voxl-suite: 1.1.2

    current IP: wlan0: 192.168.1.35

    rb5:~$


    Issue: When I run ros2 for figure 8 , I get the following output but the rb5 is not doing figure 8
    rb5:~$ ros2 run voxl_offboard_figure8 voxl_offboard_figure8
    [INFO] [1736938771.880330404] [offboard_figure8_node]: Offboard Figure 8 Node Alive!
    [INFO] [1736938773.006198000] [offboard_figure8_node]: Switching to offboard mode
    [INFO] [1736938773.010869569] [offboard_figure8_node]: Arm command sent
    [INFO] [1736938781.907197594] [offboard_figure8_node]: Doing figure 8 now
    [INFO] [1736938794.961756257] [offboard_figure8_node]: Switching to land mode

    Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

    Best wishes,

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      @tahawaru just to confirm you have turned off figure 8 offboard mode in voxl-vision-hub? Also does the drone arm when stating "drone arming" - lastly, do you have the dds agent running on the voxl2? There is a part of me that is nervous since you are running this on the rb5 and not a voxl2 that the px4 instance on there is quite stale and doesnt have the dds CLIENT sitting in the executable script. take a look at /usr/bin/voxl-px4-start and check if there is reference to the dds client.

      Zach

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        @tahawaru just to confirm you have turned off figure 8 offboard mode in voxl-vision-hub? Also does the drone arm when stating "drone arming" - lastly, do you have the dds agent running on the voxl2? There is a part of me that is nervous since you are running this on the rb5 and not a voxl2 that the px4 instance on there is quite stale and doesnt have the dds CLIENT sitting in the executable script. take a look at /usr/bin/voxl-px4-start and check if there is reference to the dds client.

        Zach

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        @Zachary-Lowell-0

        1. offboard mode:
          d5d4a98e-4bf0-4aa7-baee-522cb331b4a7-image.png

        2. The drone does NOT arm from the ROS2 command but it can be armed with the RC

        3)rb5:~$ voxl-inspect-services
        Scanning services...
        bea8dc77-6e7c-4635-b0b0-c7b9a5ec7676-image.png

        4)/usr/bin/voxl-px4-start
        466822e7-ff3f-4c08-a6c4-780b619665d0-image.png

        Best wishes,

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