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My organization just received our Starling 2 Max Drone. We flew it today for the first time. We had had QGround Control Up but couldn’t ever get a GPS lock. I had the drone outside in open area for well over 30 minutes for it to cold boot.
The cable harness from the u-blox M10 GNSS GPS module down to the Voxl seems secured.
Could it be a driver issue? What else can my engineers try and check?
Thank you
@Eric-Katzfey
I bought the drone off of Ebay, the seller claimed that it was open box, never flown or operated, there is no visual damage to the drone.
I am out today, I will be ready to do lower level debugging 22 hours after I post this message. Let me know if there are any tools which would be useful for debugging that I can try to get in advance. Right now, all I have is a multimeter.
@Eric-Katzfey
Hi Eric,
Sorry for the late response.
Here is the inspect SKU output:
voxl-inspect-sku
family code: MRB-D0005 (starling-1-discontinued (D0005))
compute board: 4 (voxl2)
hw version: 2
cam config: 6
modem config: 0 (none)
tx config: 7 (elrs_beta_fpv)
extras config: 0 (none)
SKU: MRB-D0005-4-V2-C6-T7-M0-X0
The drone was not flying previously, I was using SDK version 1.0.0, if I go back to that version the problem is not resolved.
Please let me know if you need anything else, and thank you for your help!
The GPS is the Taoglas that comes with the Starling V1, the light is green, the ELRS is a BetaFPV 900 Nano RX, the light is solid blue, so I think it's stuck in bootloader mode, but I can't even reset it with the voxl-elrs utility, since the scan doesn't even register that something is connected to the port.
I cannot fly my Starling V1, flashed with latest M0054-1 image(14.1a_1.7.8) and latest SDK version(1.6.2), with correctly selected voxl-configure-mpa version(Starling V1 with silver motors)
QGroundControl says that Compass Sensor 0 is missing, even though I have the GPS Taoglas chip connected.
Furthermore:
px4-listener sensor_gps
never published
Also, the RC was not working, so I just wanted to check that:
px4-listener input_rc
TOPIC: input_rc
input_rc
timestamp: 91987808 (0.005253 seconds ago)
timestamp_last_signal: 0
rssi: -1
rssi_dbm: nan
rc_lost_frame_count: 0
rc_total_frame_count: 0
rc_ppm_frame_length: 0
values: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
channel_count: 16
rc_failsafe: True
rc_lost: True
input_source: 14
link_quality: -1
It is receiving messages, but the RC is lost. After running voxl-elrs --scan:
voxl-elrs --scan
Autodetecting device information...
Sending library name request: libslpi_qrb5165_io.so
Sending initialization request
As seen above, nothing shows up and no device is recognized where the ELRS should be detected. Since both the GPS and ELRS are plugged into the same physical connector(J19), I wonder if there is a driver issue with that, and just wanted general guidance if this was an issue seen before. Both the ELRS and GPS get power, the WiFi USB dongle(ALFA Network) on the same extension board(M2300000KGX) as the J19 connector works too, it's just that the data connections to the ELRS and GPS don't seem to work.
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