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@Eric-Katzfey Good morning, Is there any update on Remote ID? Thank you!

@tom Good morning any updates on the Remote ID

@tom Good morning, is there an update on the solution.

@Eric-Katzfey what needs to be contained in the wlan0 file

@doe43john77 Checking for an update

@Eric-Katzfey This is what i have when I do what you did above. I add the hostapd into the directory and copied the hostapd.conf into the hostapd directory.
rb5:~$ cd /data/misc/wifi/
rb5:/data/misc/wifi$ ls
hostapd hostapd.conf wpa_supplicant.conf
hostapd-wlan1.conf sta_mode_hostapd.conf
hostapd-wlan2.conf wlan_mode
rb5:/data/misc/wifi$ ls -l
total 284
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 16:23 hostapd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66929 Oct 13 2022 hostapd-wlan1.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66929 Oct 13 2022 hostapd-wlan2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66928 Jun 30 18:31 hostapd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66927 Oct 13 2022 sta_mode_hostapd.conf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 7 Jun 30 18:31 wlan_mode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 234 Jun 30 18:31 wpa_supplicant.conf
rb5:/data/misc/wifi$ cd hostapd
rb5:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ ls
hostapd.conf
rb5:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$ ls -l
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66928 Jun 30 16:11 hostapd.conf
rb5:/data/misc/wifi/hostapd$

@Eric-Katzfey Also isn't hostapd a conf. file

@Eric-Katzfey Yes, I am able to connect the drone over WiFi.

Is there any solution or feedback to the above problem.

Good afternoon, I have been trying to get the remote ID to work on RB5. I followed the steps in the technical document, and everything was working well until I had to check voxl-remote-id status. I end up getting something like this which is in the technical document. My device is already in SoftAP mode.
voxl:/$ systemctl status voxl-remote-id
voxl-remote-id.service - voxl-remote-id
Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/voxl-remote-id; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 02:19:30 UTC; 52 years 9 months ago
Main PID: 2447 (voxl-remote-id)
CGroup: /system.slice/voxl-remote-id.service
└─2447 /usr/bin/voxl-remote-id

Jan 01 02:19:30 apq8096 systemd[1]: Started voxl-remote-id.
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Remote ID SN: 1814C4056553343
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)
Jan 01 02:19:31 apq8096 voxl-remote-id[2447]: INFO: Attempting to Connect to hostapd: /data/misc/wifi/hostapd/(null)

Is the Qualcomm rb5 capable of using remote id and if so how do I enable it?

The user guide for the Qualcomm Flight RB5 states that to connect the host laptop running QGC to the drone, while it is on the 5G network, you need to also connect the host laptop to a cellular network.

I don't understand why this is the case. If both the host laptop and the drone are connected to a VPN service, is it not possible to control the drone while it is on the 5G network from a laptop that is connected to a standard Wi-Fi network?

Is there not a way to control the drone when the laptop is on Wi-Fi but the drone is on a cellular network?

@tom Ah. This is a simple config file change. Thank you!

@doe43john77 Update: There is a program called voxl-configure-modem. All that needs to be done is select some options regarding the manufacturer of the 5G modem as well as the provider the SIM card is provisioned on.

The instructions for setting up 5G on the RB5 user guide are for the deprecated RB5 Flight SDK. Does anyone know where I can find instructions for setting up 5G using VOXL?

@tom Got it! I can access the VOXL Portal page and view the camera feed. The hi-res camera is sending 480p video for some reason. Is there a configuration file I need to tweak to push out the 4K resolution?

@tom Got it! Its connecting to QGC now!

I still don't understand how to start up the cameras. The instructions in the user guide are in terms of the deprecated rb5-streamer package.

@tom I have enabled and started running the voxl-mavlink-server service but only been able to enable (but not start) the voxl-vision-px4 service. I've included a more detailed output voxl-vision-px4 service by running systemctl status voxl-vision-px4 -l:

rb5:/$ systemctl status voxl-vision-px4 -l
● voxl-vision-px4.service - voxl-vision-px4
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/voxl-vision-px4; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2023-06-12 18:52:55 UTC; 33s ago
  Process: 2759 ExecStart=/usr/bin/voxl-vision-px4 (code=exited, status=255)
 Main PID: 2759 (code=exited, status=255)

Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]:     frame:              tof
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 systemd[1]: voxl-vision-px4.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]: voa_input #4
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]:     enabled:            1
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]:     type:               rangefinder
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]:     input_pipe:         rangefinders
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]:     frame:              body
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]: =================================================================
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 voxl-vision-px4[2759]: loading extrinsics config file
Jun 12 18:52:55 m0052 systemd[1]: voxl-vision-px4.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Also, I tried modifying the voxl-vision-px4.conf file with the IP address of my host machine with QGC in case the voxl-vision-px4 service needs the IP address for proper startup, but that didn't help.

Additionally, I saw the word "extrinsics" in the systemctl output and I was curious if it was referring to the opencv files we had to backup before the upgrading the SDK (which I did btw).

@tom Hi Tom. I updated the firmware of the RB5 to the VOXL 0.9.5 SDK. The update went smoothly. I'm trying to connect the drone to QGroundControl but I'm not having luck. I think I've covered all my bases: the host PC and drone are on the same Wi-Fi network, the drone's voxl-px4 service is running (as confirmed by using the voxl-inspect-services command). Suggestions?

Hi,

I'm attempting to setup the hi-res camera on the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G (RB5).
So far, I've been following the docs for the Qualcomm Flight RB5 SDK, available here.

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Note: I understand that as of July 2022, the RB5 has integrated the VOXL SDK
into its firmware, replacing the old RB5 SDK. When I first began setting up the
RB5 and trying to connect it to QGroundControl (QGC), I performed this firware
update. In the process of troubleshooting the connection process, I was looking
through some systemd error messages which said that I was missing some
packages which happened to belong to the old RB5 SDK. I ended up reinstalling
the old firmware. The whole process of connecting to QGC took 2 weeks, so I'd
like to avoid a firmware update to VOXL if possible.

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My first step was to configure the rb5-camera-server service via the adb
shell to run on startup using the rb5-camera-server-configure command. After
running this, I checked to see if the services were running for cameras 0, 1, 2
, 4 and 5. Here is the output:

• Cameras 0, 1, 2 and 5 have similar outputs where the say there is an unknown
  "lvalue" in the systemd configuration file (which I never touched):

● rb5-camera-server@0.service - "rb5-camera-server-0"
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/rb5-camera-server; indirect; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-06-08 15:35:49 UTC; 34s ago
 Main PID: 2197 (rb5-camera-serv)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/system-rb5\x2dcamera\x2dserver.slice/rb5-camera-server@0.service
           └─2197 /usr/bin/rb5-camera-server -c 0

Jun 08 15:35:48 m0052 systemd[1]: Starting "rb5-camera-server-0"...
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: Started "rb5-camera-server-0".
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 rb5-camera-server[2197]: gbm_create_device(156): Info: backend name is: msm_drm
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/rb5-camera-server@.service:12: Unknown lvalue 'After' in section 'Service'
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/rb5-camera-server@.service:13: Unknown lvalue 'Requires' in section 'Service'

• Camera 4, on the other hand, gives the following output which follows the
  example in the docs:

● rb5-camera-server@4.service - "rb5-camera-server-4"
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/rb5-camera-server; indirect; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-06-08 15:35:50 UTC; 15min ago
  Process: 2219 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 1 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2224 (rb5-camera-serv)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/system-rb5\x2dcamera\x2dserver.slice/rb5-camera-server@4.service
           └─2224 /usr/bin/rb5-camera-server -c 4

Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: Starting "rb5-camera-server-4"...
Jun 08 15:35:50 m0052 systemd[1]: Started "rb5-camera-server-4".
Jun 08 15:35:52 m0052 rb5-camera-server[2224]: gbm_create_device(156): Info: backend name is: msm_drm

So, my first question: Why is the camera server service saying that there is
an unknown option in the startup configuration files when I never touched them
to begin with?

Next, I tested the cameras with the rb5-camera-client command. All cameras
began pushing metadata through the pipe successfully. I confirmed this by using
systemctl status rb5-camera-server@X.

Frame Information:
Individual Pixel Value 500: 4 

Metadata Information:
Timestamp:1267899026668 
Frame ID:43
Frame Width:640
Frame Height:480
fps: 30.00125

The frame width and FPS line up with the specs of the secondary cameras. An example of the systemd log is shown below:

● rb5-camera-server@0.service - "rb5-camera-server-0"
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/rb5-camera-server; indirect; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-06-08 15:35:49 UTC; 28min ago
 Main PID: 2197 (rb5-camera-serv)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/system-rb5\x2dcamera\x2dserver.slice/rb5-camera-server@0.service
           └─2197 /usr/bin/rb5-camera-server -c 0

Jun 08 15:35:48 m0052 systemd[1]: Starting "rb5-camera-server-0"...
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: Started "rb5-camera-server-0".
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 rb5-camera-server[2197]: gbm_create_device(156): Info: backend name is: msm_drm
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/rb5-camera-server@.service:12: Unknown lvalue 'After' in section 'Service'
Jun 08 15:35:49 m0052 systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/rb5-camera-server@.service:13: Unknown lvalue 'Requires' in section 'Service'
Jun 08 15:55:26 m0052 rb5-camera-server[2197]: camera ID is set to 0
Jun 08 15:55:26 m0052 rb5-camera-server[2197]: [INFO] Publishing to the following pipe: /dev/rb5-camera-pipe-0
Jun 08 15:55:26 m0052 rb5-camera-server[2197]: [INFO] Started camera ID: 0

Second step was to configure the rb5-streamer service (which controls
camera 3, the hi-res camera) to run on startup using the
rb5-streamer-configure factory_enable command. The service seems to start up
normally based on the systemd log:

● rb5-streamer.service - rb5-streamer
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rb5-streamer.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-06-08 16:09:28 UTC; 14s ago
 Main PID: 10448 (rb5-streamer)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/rb5-streamer.service
           └─10448 /usr/bin/rb5-streamer

Jun 08 16:09:28 m0052 systemd[1]: Started rb5-streamer.
Jun 08 16:09:28 m0052 rb5-streamer[10448]: [INFO] RTSP stream ready at rtsp://VEHICLES_IP:8554/camera3

For references, here is the example from the technical docs:

● rb5-streamer.service - "rb5-streamer"
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/bin/rb5-streamer; indirect; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-07-26 16:28:00 UTC; 15s ago

Jul 26 16:28:00 qrb5165-rb5 systemd[1]: Started "rb5-streamer".
Jul 26 16:28:00 qrb5165-rb5 rb5-streamer[9522]: gbm_create_device(156)
Jul 26 16:28:00 qrb5165-rb5 rb5-streamer[9522]: stream ready at rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/test

My output is missing gbm_create_device(156) and the actual IP address. I
should note that the drone is connected to Wi-Fi successfully and has an IP
address that I can ping and SSH into.

For the most part, everything starts up without any hiccups. However, when I
try to open the stream in VLC the stream fails. QGC doesn't even show the video
and I'm stumped. I followed the directions, checked I was putting the right
RTSP addressed and I have no clue how to proceed.

Help would be immensely appreciated.

Thanks!