Modal AI Devs, et.al.,

I'm attempting to add a sensor to the m500 system to ensure level flight of approximately 4 to 5 feet while operating. after reviewing your firmware for the flight core, I noted you have some lidar and range finding sensors.
We currently have a I2C splitter that has both the GPS and range finder attached going into port J10.
When I connect my aircraft to QGC I cannot get the range sensor to appear in the parameters or the MAVLink inspector.
reviewing your documentation on the navigation of the m500 system I saw you have GPS and visual navigation pre-configured for the system as default. can I add this range sensor to part of the default system?

Sincerely,
Steve

I have been working to get the Holy bro VL53L1X Time-of-Flight (ToF), laser-ranging sensor operational on the M500. We are currently attempting to use the J1008 port, but the QGroundControl software doesn't sense the hardware when plugged in. Any advice on how to get this working properly with your system?
https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-vl53l0x-lidar.html

Regards,
Steve

@Chad-Sweet said in Running MAVSDK directly on M500 and Python update:

The Docker is 64-bit, so the code that runs inside is usually faster than the code that runs outside of the Docker

Oh, that's interesting, thanks for the insight. I'll share with the others, and let you know how it all goes.

@Alex-Kushleyev
Thanks a bunch for the quick guide we are successful in upgrading our system to the desired 3.9.15 python version.
Would we be able to follow the same steps for MAVSDK python install to M500?
We are trying to run MAVSDK python files directly in the VOXL data folder currently and receiving an invalid syntax error on the "async def run()" line. I was under the impression we had MAVSDK in the aircraft already from the functional diagram on the docs shown in the MAVSDK link.
https://docs.modalai.com/mavsdk/
Do we need to install Asyncio too to fix this error?

@Chad-Sweet
Thanks for the quick reply, our team looked into the docker examples, and know that is an option. We are looking to run MAVSDK python directly on M500's VOXL.
We'll use docker if this cannot be done, since we need the architecture bloating to stay as low as possible due to the AI.

The team and I are developing a learning AI algorithm deployed on a raspberry pi to fly an obstacle course with the M500. We are only using the Hires camera frames and aircraft position data.
We wanted to run our python code directly on your VOXL flight deck, but I'm having trouble updating the python version on the M500. Our AI is running on Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 3.9.15. Any way we can update this to something closer to 3.9?
I also am using python based MAVSDK commands from the AI to control movement through the obstacle course, do you know if we can run this directly on the system as well?
We are aware of the docker option and would just like to know if we can run on the aircraft without docker, or if we should go ahead and set up what we need to run in a docker container.
Any feedback on the two questions is appreciated!

Kind Regards,
Steve

Hello, I'm trying to configure the MAVLink on my m500 to receive MAVSDK commands from a raspberry pi I have attached to my aircraft running an AI trained to move the vehicle and identify ducks.
The aircraft will travel with a constant altitude, constant roll, and only the thrust and yaw values will change. What do you suggest would be the best method of passing MAVSDK flight
commands from the raspberry pi to the px4. The raspberry pi has a direct connection to the micro-usb port on the VOXL, and I was going to attempt to use that, but I wanted to get some suggestions first.
Any tips would be helpful, thanks!

@Cristian-Adam The aircraft (M500) still does not connect to the WiFi at my office. Modal Devs and I are assuming my problem is related to the firewall settings IT set up at my work.

Although I type the command correctly and the aircraft finds the wifi, it cannot connect and fails.

@tom Yeah I am on 0.9 platform release

Our team would greatly appreciate feedback about the motor over heating issue. Both our aircraft (two M500 platforms) have this issue. The high temperature has caused a failure and we are requesting guidance on understanding why the aircraft has this heating issue. Would a calibration of the system help fix an issue like this?