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.
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How to stream hires camera at VGA resolution and simultaneously capture 4k30 to a fileposted in Ask your questions right here!
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RE: Streaming 4K video from Qualcomm RB5 droneposted in Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Drone
@kitkatSG Yes, we have enabled most resolutions in that sensor now and are preparing a release to address this issue.
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RE: Ardupilot : connection with Mission Plannerposted in VOXL 2
@Kessie Excellent, glad to hear you got it working! And thanks for adding the details on what you had to do to the posting!
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RE: having trouble using docker on the sdcardposted in Ask your questions right here!
@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.
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RE: Maximum I2C Clock Frequencyposted in Ask your questions right here!
@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.
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RE: VOXL2 I2C access from FCposted in ROS
@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.
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RE: Voxl 2 SDK 1.1.1posted in VOXL SDK
@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.
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RE: ModalAI uORB topic file handle locationposted in VOXL 2
@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.
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RE: Voxl Streamer implementation with rtmp or dash streaming protocolposted in VOXL
@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.
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RE: voxl-streamer client repetitive connect/disconnectposted in Ask your questions right here!
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.
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RE: Use lidar for localization instead of Qvioposted in Starling & Starling 2
@Muqing-Cao Just the standard Mavlink ODOMETRY message is what we have used. Not exactly sure how that translates into ROS land. But it isn't anything ModalAI specific.
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RE: Use lidar for localization instead of Qvioposted in Starling & Starling 2
@Muqing-Cao Yes, definitely. The applications are auto started using systemd services and can be stopped / disabled using standard commands as desired.
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RE: Starling 2 Max doesn't report battery informationposted in Starling & Starling 2
@Hunter-Scott The log you provided contained battery_status
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RE: DRONE NOT FLYINGposted in FPV Drones
@taiwohazeez Are the propellers spinning in the right direction? If they are attached in the correct place, the motors are spinning in the correct direction, and they are spinning faster than another flying drone then physics says it will fly also.
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RE: Starling 2 Max doesn't report battery informationposted in Starling & Starling 2
@Hunter-Scott Can you supply a px4 log file?
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RE: DRONE NOT FLYINGposted in FPV Drones
@taiwohazeez Could the propellers have been removed and replaced such that they are no longer in the proper position? If they are reversed they will be trying to push the drone down instead of up.
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RE: Turtle mode compatibility with non Modalai ESCposted in Ask your questions right here!
@Jetson-Nano Okay, well we don't support that right now. If you want to make your own build then you can probably just replace all of the files in the src/drivers/actuators/voxl_esc with the files from the voxl-fpv-dev branch.
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RE: Turtle mode compatibility with non Modalai ESCposted in Ask your questions right here!
@Jetson-Nano It's hard to follow what you are asking. Are you trying to add turtle mode to another ESC driver? Are you trying to get turtle mode working with a joystick and VOXL ESC?