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Permalink Reply by Andrew Radford on July 9, 2012 at 11:32pm

It's not a planner bug. If you want to use the current version you can, but you have to build it in Arduino and disable a whole bunch of stuff so that it will fit in the smaller memory of the 1280 - in other words, you don't use the planner to upgrade a 1280 any more

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Permalink Reply by Gavin Yeo on July 10, 2012 at 12:51am

Hi - thanks for replying!  Do you know if anyone has written a procedure for programming the older boards. 

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Permalink Reply by Gavin Yeo on July 12, 2012 at 3:24pm

Hello.

I am up to speed using ARDUINO programmer console and understand I need the arducopter folder and libraries folder under arduino however I need a Arducopter version that will fit onto 1280.

 

Can anyone let me know what version arducopter I need that will fit onto the 1280 board. 

 

thank you in advance for the kind soul who can help me install arducopter onto APM v1 1280 board.

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Permalink Reply by Gavin Yeo on July 16, 2012 at 6:39am

I guess I must be the only one out there trying to fit quadcopter firmware onto a APM v1 1280?  Wish I knew what sections of code I could cut out to make it fit on to 1280 memory

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Permalink Reply by Martin Poller on July 16, 2012 at 3:26pm

Hi Gavin,

I have an APM 1280 and can load the most up to date arduplane or arducopter code by following Andrew Tridgell's guide:-

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/getting-the-most-out-of-your

Regards

Martin

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by John Church on July 17, 2012 at 12:56pm

Hi Martin,

#define GPS_PROTOCOL GPS_PROTOCOL_MTK16 would be the key (4k savings). However, I haven't had any luck using the specific GPS definitions in many revisions of code (Issue 392 in AC Issues Log). The specification seems to work, but only if you're connected to USB...

That said, if anyone wants to manually yank their other GPS drivers, let me know.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Poller on July 17, 2012 at 3:27pm

Hi John,

Thanks for that, you're way ahead of me with the code, and although I did manage to get arducopter 2.6 loaded I'm afraid I've since reverted back to version 2.0.049 which fits without any tinkering.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by John Church on July 16, 2012 at 6:50am

Hi,
You will need to prevent the GPS auto detect routine in the GPS library from loading GPS drivers that you don't use. I can tell you what lines to comment if you need help. If you look back at my comments you'll see how to disable SIRF GPS, but to get the latest trunk to fit I had to kill the new UBLOX driver as well.

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