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    Eric Katzfey

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    • How to stream hires camera at VGA resolution and simultaneously capture 4k30 to a file

      There is a new module under development that allows you to pipe VGA (640x480) video from the hires camera at 30fps via MPA so that it can be streamed with voxl-streamer using RTSP while simultaneously saving 4k HD video at 30fps encoded as h265 into a file, preferably on the SD card on voxl. This module is now available in beta and will be officially released in upcoming releases of the voxl SDK for voxl, rb5-flight, and voxl 2. The beta package is available using wget https://storage.googleapis.com/modalai_public/modal_packages/archive/voxl-hires-server_0.0.1.ipk. It is meant for use on voxl only and is compatible with voxl platform release 3-3-0-0.5.0-a. In order to use it with voxl-camera-server, reconfigure voxl-camera-server to not use the hires camera. For example, call voxl-configure-cameras and choose option 1 Tracking + Stereo to allow voxl-camera-server to access the tracking and stereo cameras but not the hires camera. Then you can use voxl-hires-server for the hires camera. Use voxl-hires-server -h to see the available options. More documentation will be available upon official release of this new package.

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Streaming 4K video from Qualcomm RB5 drone

      @kitkatSG Yes, we have enabled most resolutions in that sensor now and are preparing a release to address this issue.

      posted in Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Drone
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Ardupilot : connection with Mission Planner

      @Kessie Excellent, glad to hear you got it working! And thanks for adding the details on what you had to do to the posting!

      posted in VOXL 2
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: having trouble using docker on the sdcard

      @JoeC Seems like it is an SD card issue. I was able to recreate the problem when using a SanDisk Extreme 32GB card. But when using a SanDisk Ultra 16GB card everything works fine.

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Maximum I2C Clock Frequency

      @Morten-Nissov 1MHz is a supported clock rate for i2c on the DSP based on what I can see in the code. But we have never tried running a device at 1MHz on i2c so it's tough to say why it wouldn't be working for you.

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: VOXL2 I2C access from FC

      @ceu-gomez PX4 on VOXL2 is composed of two separate applications. One is on the applications processor (running Ubuntu) and the other is on the DSP (running Qurt RTOS). They use the muorb module to communicate topic data back and forth. The spare i2c on J19 is mapped to the DSP, not the applications processor, so Ubuntu has no access to it. To gain access to it on Ubuntu side with PX4 running would require some new code. This is something that is on our development roadmap but no definitive answer on when we will be able to get to it.

      posted in ROS
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Voxl 2 SDK 1.1.1

      @JoeC SDK 1.1.1 is now available. Please use the installer in the voxl2_SDK_1.1.1.tar.gz archive to install this.

      posted in VOXL SDK
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: ModalAI uORB topic file handle location

      @Dan It's not really documented anywhere other than the source code. The best place to look is at the muorb module code. That is what implements the uorb communicator interface to allow advertisements, subscription requests, and topic data to flow between the DSP and the Linux side.

      posted in VOXL 2
      Eric KatzfeyE
      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Voxl Streamer implementation with rtmp or dash streaming protocol

      @Hammas-Ali We have not tried either of those streaming protocols. Voxl is a Linux computer so it is likely that you can implement RTMP or DASH. voxl-streamer uses GStreamer so, if there are RTMP or DASH GStreamer elements available, it shouldn't be too hard to incorporate them.

      posted in VOXL
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: voxl-streamer client repetitive connect/disconnect

      An update to UVC camera support has been started. It will increase number of supported cameras by allowing MJPEG and will increase number of supported viewers including latest QGroundControl versions. Target availability is mid-December.

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey

    Latest posts made by Eric Katzfey

    • RE: M0184 ELRS reciever bricks itself upon switching output mode to SBUS

      @joshuagaus Sorry, but SBUS is not supported. That option will be hidden in future SDK releases to prevent confusion.

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
      Eric KatzfeyE
      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Starling Max 2 Sideways Bench Testing

      @Myles-Levine You should see an actuators tab. Do you have our standard VOXL SDK loaded on the drone?

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: voxl-send-command exit status implementation request

      @jameskuesel Thanks! Merged

      posted in Feature Requests
      Eric KatzfeyE
      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: voxl-send-command exit status implementation request

      @jameskuesel Feel free to make the change and submit a PR

      posted in Feature Requests
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: autonomy stack

      @Eric-Katzfey And this is also handy: https://www.sparkfun.com/breadboard-to-jst-ghr-04v-cable-4-pin-x-1-25mm-pitch.html

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: autonomy stack

      @Gad-Levin We generally use HITL. There is some documentation here: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-PX4-hitl/. This is the repo with the most up to date HITL driver for VOXL: https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/tree/voxl-fpv-dev. There is some more info in the HITL driver README: https://github.com/modalai/px4-firmware/blob/voxl-fpv-dev/boards/modalai/voxl2-slpi/src/drivers/dsp_hitl/README.md. I'm sure there's some outdated / incomplete information in those documents but it should give you a pretty good starting spot. This is the cable I use: https://www.sparkfun.com/usb-to-ttl-serial-cable.html

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
      Eric KatzfeyE
      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Starling Max 2 Sideways Bench Testing

      @Myles-Levine Have you tried with the QGroundControl motor (actuator) spin tab?

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
      Eric KatzfeyE
      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: voxl-px4 time source

      @jon For MONOTONIC the apps side uses the slpi version so that they are in sync. Your application should use apps MONOTONIC. PX4 will convert it using timesync.

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Preflight Fail: Compass Sensor 0 missing

      @Nitin-Varma-Vegesna Well, that's why I asked you to do the full SDK installation. If you install the SDK and set it up as we do from the factory then it should be working like when you first got it. If it doesn't then that potentially points to some damage caused by the crash and not some configuration change you have made since then.

      posted in Starling & Starling 2
      Eric KatzfeyE
      Eric Katzfey
    • RE: Preflight Fail: Compass Sensor 0 missing

      @Nitin-Varma-Vegesna You can set parameters via voxl-configure-px4-params.

      posted in Starling & Starling 2
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      Eric Katzfey