Hello, I need some guidance in setting up HITL for the voxl2 with external flight controller, voxl flight core v2 in my case. I followed the HITL guide in ModalAI docs, as well as the YouTube tutorials but they individually either show setting it up for voxl2 or flight core by themselves.

I was able to get gazebo running with voxl-px4-hitl but only with voxl2 imu’s not the flight core.

My drone flies correctly with flight core v2 connected to the voxl2 over UART so no issues with the setup but I’d like to test off board functions in HITL with the same hardware config before flying.

Is there a simple way or something I’m missing to allow the HITL setup to recognize the use of an external fc?

I’m happy to share any details of my setup that might help solve this. Thankyou!

Hi, I am trying to upload and run this example script on my voxl2-FCV2 equipped drone

https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-docker-images/voxl-docker-mavsdk-python/-/tree/master

I would like to modify this to create a custom trajectory sequence using an April tag to precision land. I have reviewed the tech docs of relocalization. and have properly set that up and verified the drone is using the tags as reference localization but beyond that I cannot get this script implemented. There doesn't seem to be any guides on how exactly the precision landing function is incorporated between px4 and voxl2. I did see an early video of a modalai dev drone executing a precision land but there wasn't any explanation of how that is set up.

I also cannot get this properly built and deployed to the voxl2. I know this example is quite old, so I wonder if I am going about it correctly using voxl-cross to deploy it.

If anyone could point me in the correct direction of getting this to run it would be greatly appreciated!

@Alex-Kushleyev Good to know, Thankyou for clarifying Alex!

@Vinny Thank you for the thoughtful and detailed response! After considering these limitations, especially with the TOF, I think it will be best to stick with 2s as it would make this project considerably simpler.

I have another question regarding the Mini ESC, there is the 3.8v version and the 5v version. I am running the beta TOF with external 5v. If I wanted to integrate this, could I use the 5v version of the 4-1 ESC with voxl2 mini? I already have the VOXL2 but I plan to also test the mini, and for the sake of swapping out hardware, I am curious if it can safely accept 5v or if it would only specifically work with the 3.8v version.

Hi, I am working on a micro quad 3” with 1102 motors, and am considering buying the VOXL2 mini with mini esc. Then fitting it with a TOF/tracking configuration. Would that setup be capable of being powered by a 1s battery, specifically an 18650 LiIon 25a cell?

I was reading that the VOXL2 mini was designed to be powered by 1s but not sure about the mini ESC’s output capability with 1s.

I have seen that some might use a step up converter. Any advice would be appreciated.

@tom gotchya! thankyou I will make sure to update the script. thankyou for your help!

@tom yes I am able to ssh in normally and I did in fact recently change the root password from the default

@tom I have tried several different packages and templates and they don't seem to work after the SDK update

@tom I am trying in station mode and still not working. Not sure what to try

@tom yes correct I am using ./deploy_to_voxl.sh over ssh