Posts made by tom

@soraminds Sounds good, if you have any questions in the future you know where to find answers! Our users often have plenty of processing power to spare when using VOXL 2.

@soraminds What do you mean by additional processor? What kind and how do you plan on passing data between this processor and VOXL 2? What kind of processing are you unable to do on VOXL 2?

@tom As we start our testing cycle and get close to release we will also start releasing "beta" SDKs which can be downloaded from the "platform-releases" bucket

@star123 Probably a couple weeks out.

We have nightly SDK's built with the latest off of the dev branch of each repo, here is last night's: https://storage.googleapis.com/platform-nightlies/voxl2/voxl2_SDK_nightly_20241118.tar.gz

You can find a new one published each day via date.

These are completely untested so can't guarantee any functionality but this will represent the tip of our development.

@soraminds https://www.modalai.com/products/mdk-m0090?variant=47319040327984

Sentinel may already have an M0090 in it, likely without the Sierra Wireless modem

@star123 Yes it is only using one tracking camera by default. Our next SDK release will switch VIO from QVIO to VINS which will use multi-cam input by default.

@mario Should be the same, if you're seeing that LED pattern then binding mode has started correctly

@perfx I'd recommend reaching out to Ascend Engineering, they're ModalAI product experts and they'll be able to help you out: https://www.ascendengineer.com/

@mario There should be only physical button on the receiver itself, pressing and holding it for a couple seconds within 30 seconds of powering on should put it into bind mode

@perfx Here's a good start for sw/hw implementation: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-external-flight-controller/

@griffin It will ignore it, if you'd like to fly outside you'd want to load the outdoor_gps_baro parameters

@griffin Since we market it as an "outdoor drone" starling 2 max ships with "outdoor gps" px4 parameters which means that in it's default position mode it is attempting to use GPS data.

You can load the indoor VIO parameters by doing the following:

Open PX4 param wizard

voxl-configure-px4-params -w

Select EKF2_helpers

Select indoor_vio.params

Load the parameters and power cycle your drone

@Jeremy-Frederick Can you post a picture of your hardware setup so we can get a better idea of what you're trying?

@hockey_fan No problem, I'll update the docs page with this info, thank you for pointing this out

@spiff And if you turn it off and power cycle does it show up with lsusb?

@Jainik-Mehta RC needs to be set to GHST

@hockey_fan I recommend installing voxl-docker on your host machine, this will guide you through installing docker and the voxl-docker repo which makes building voxl packages easier.: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-docker-and-cross-installation/#how-to-setup-voxl-docker-and-voxl-cross

Once done, you'll be able to do the following:

move into the px4-firmware directory

cd px4-firmware

Mount the directory into the docker container (the first time you run this it will download the px4-dev-nuttx-focal docker image to your host machine

voxl-docker -i px4io/px4-dev-nuttx-focal:2022-08-12

Once in the container:

make modalai_fc-v2

This will generate the px4 build at px4-firmware/build/modalai_fc-v2_default/modalai_fc-v2_*.px4 which can be accessed inside or outside of the container

@aryan-yadav If you had purchased a drone with the M0173 it would've already had the correct kernel flashed but we ship bare boards with the default kernel

@aryan-yadav You'll just need to download SDK 1.3.5, unzip it, and run install.sh, it'll ask you what config you'd like to flash and you'll want to select the M0173 option which will flash the correct kernel in order to support the M0173 and those camera configs

@spiff Does it not show up with lsusb regardless of whether the switch is on or not?

If it's not being in lsusb then QDL isn't going to be able to see it so won't be providing an data