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Happykillmore instruments not responding

Posted by Assaf Weiss on April 28, 2011 at 11:24am

Hi I am using the latest APM planner to update the firmware on my APM.

When I connect the APM board and open the GCS console in the APM planner, I can see the response of the instruments and everything seems OK.

When I try to connect the APM via Happykillmore GCS, It seems as if the APM does connect, and data is streaming in the serial data tab, but I dont get any response in the instrument panel, as if the board is not connected.

 

What am I doing wrong with the Happykillmore setup?

 

Thanks for any reply.

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  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 5:06pm

    Israelis tend to make problems - it makes as feel special :)

     

    Thanks for the personal care!

  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 4:51pm

    Thanks!

    1.2.94 works!

     

    What was the problem?

     

  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 4:36pm

    Hi HK.

     

    Thanks for you time.

    I tried installing the latest GCS on a different computer with the same results (both runing windows 7 32 bit).

    I then tried using an older version of the GCS (ver 1.1.16 if i remember correctly) and everything worked just fine...

    Can't figure it out...

  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 2:00pm
    I am using a usb to usb cable (from the USB connector on the IMU to the USB in the PC)
  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 1:49pm
    I am connected via the IMU board.
  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 1:08pm

    MTK GPS

    I used the firmware you suggested, tried compiling from here, also tried your links in the discussion (none of them worked, I had a compilation error, see my screenshots in the discussion), and tried updating firmware via the planner. On all occasions I had the same problem.

    Baud rate 115200 connected via USB on COM3

    Everything works good on the planner GCS.

  • Assaf Weiss May 8, 2011 at 11:48am
    It says : he-IL
  • Paul Mather April 28, 2011 at 11:35am

    Anything prior to 1.2.76 had a bug in the waypoint read routine. What would happen is the telemetry streams would get disabled during the parameter and waypoint read, the read would fail and the telemetry streams would not get re-enabled. To test this, you can open the version you're currently using and click the serial tab and change any of the data rate combos on that tab. Everything will start working.

     

    Make sure you're on 1.2.76 or newer of my GCS and all should function correctly. Also, Doug is working on saving the telemetry data rates in EEPROM memory so the data should start flowing after connecting the power even without the GCS listening.

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