@Zachary-Lowell-0

Hello! I was able to reinstall 1.3.5 and that somehow fixed it! I am not going to question it lol.

Now I'm trying to find out how to install voxl-mapper and I can't find documentation for it. I am flying the drone inside a test lab. Today when I was flying it around the room, the drone was not mapping anything. The 2D/3D map was blank when I went to plan a point. I think it's blank because I am missing voxl-mapper especially since I have camera-server, vision hub, voxl-px4 and qvio enabled/running. All I have seen is that I have to change "offboard_mode": "trajectory", in order to plan a point on the map and have the drone fly to it.

Is there any documentation on getting voxl-mapper and planning a point?

@Zachary-Lowell-0 @Eric-Katzfey

So i went into the voxl-configure-cameras and saw the list:

• 26 - M0173 with Tof imx412 and dual AR0144
• 27 - M0173 with Tof imx412 and triple AR0144
• 28 - M0173 with Dual IMX412 and Dual AR0144
• 29 - M0173 with TOF dual IMX412 and Dual AR0144
• 30 - M0173 with Dual TOF DUAL IMX412 and dual AR0144
• 36 - M0173 with imx412 and dual AR0144
• 37 - M0173 with Tof imx412, dual AR0144, and boson
• c - use user defined custom camera config in
• q - quit

I selected 26 and 27 then ran voxl-camera-server and it said "ERROR: Found zero cameras connected, need at least one" after each selection.

hmmmm I'm a little lost now

@Zachary-Lowell-0 @Eric-Katzfey

Hello!

So I have updated the starling to VOXL Suite 1.3.5. However when it was done updating it said:

"FAILED TO EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING STEPS: VOXL-CONFIGURE-CAMERAS 6"

Which I temporarily ignored until I checked the web portal camera, the qvio overlay was blank and it was the only option that showed up. The feed said "ERR: CAM_MISSING_STALLED". Also, in QGC it said
"SWITCHING TO POSITION CONTROL IS CURRENTLY NOT POSSIBLE. NO VALID LOCAL POSITION ESTIMATE."

The drone flew fine in manual mode, but its not arming in position mode. How can I fix this?

@Zachary-Lowell-0

Awesome! Thank you! I will do that then!

@Eric-Katzfey

Ok! Will do? How might I go about a fresh installation on a package I already have?

@Eric-Katzfey

Yes!

I had several good flights with 1.3.3. I also had good flights with 1.1.3 as well.

@Eric-Katzfey

Yes the drone operated normal. I got to a point where I would arm it in position mode have it hover 7 feet, and then perform figure eights. In practicing landing it would the floor but the floor in my lab is foam matting which is better than hitting the concrete. To be honest it has 2 or 3 rough landings but after checking after each landing, I nor my colleagues inspected any physical damage. The SDK has been updated 1.3.3. it originally had 1.1.3. I think until I updated it last month.

@Eric-Katzfey

@Eric-Katzfey said in Starling Position and Manual Mode dysfunctional:

You need to keep the throttle all the way down and then slowly increase to takeoff.

Yes but after arming the drone, the drone would no longer receive any input from the controller. That was what I was originally doing but once I and few of my other colleagues gave it try, moving the sticks in every direction, the drone was not responding. Even when we would try to unarm it right stick down the drone was not responding.

@Eric-Katzfey

Hey!

Here is the flight log in manual mode. I also uploaded the videos of the drone in Manual mode they are really short simply because it would flip violently then I had to stop it really quickly. Also on the last attempt at the drone in manual it flipped then 2 of the propellers snapped off. So I have to change those along with the torn one. I hope this helps!

Thanks

@ijones2

Hey!

Here is a link to videos of the drone veering to the left when flying. The new propellers have arrived and I will be replacing all the current ones. I don't think that will fix it though. A colleague of mine checked the amps of the motors and found that the back right motor from the camera was producing lower amps than the others. We hypothesized that the reason the drone kept flipping to the left is because the right motors were overcompensating maybe? I have no clue any advice would be appreciated.

1 - .05 amp Camera right front

2 - .031 amp camera right back

3 - .046 amp camera left back

4 - .045 amp camera left front

Starling Drone flight video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/RxEaN8YGxXUdh1j87

Thanks!