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Permalink Reply by Dan Gray on September 20, 2012 at 9:37am

There's a new bug in 2.7.3, the last "waypoint" command is never executed.  Simply put two "land" commands at the end.  It will execute the first one, but not the second.

If you configure your Mission Planner to use speech, you will hear "Heading to waypoint sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty five" at the end of your mission.

Dan Gray

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Permalink Reply by dudz on September 20, 2012 at 1:52pm

Hi Dan,

 I have never had a problem with the last waypoint with 2.7.3 , just where the quad actually lands which is around 30 meters from the "land" waypoint.

 I tried ending a mission today with your advised 2 "land" commands at the end..... What it actually done today is ignore both of the 2 land waypoints and landed at the last "waypoint" before the "land" commands !

 So after sending the quad off on a 3km mission , it never came back. Unaware of what had happened,  I used my mobile telephone and rung the tracking unit that I bought (from ebay for around 40euros). It sent a sms back to me with the co-ords of the quad. By then the sky was pitch black, and I had go do a mile walk through fields marshes and woodland. Then from a distance, I saw the APM's flashing lights !  yey ! ...the best 40 euros I have ever spent. It had landed safely 10 meters from the edge of woodland in some long grass..

 My new 3dr radio only gives me 300 meters range. This is a separate issue I will be looking at.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Boland on September 20, 2012 at 4:28pm

It seems to land at the last waypoint BEFORE a land command.

So what I do is place a final waypoint where I want it to land and then have the land command after that with no GPS co-ordinates in the command.

It works fine and the landing is within GPS accuracy of the last waypoint.

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Permalink Reply by dudz on September 21, 2012 at 8:23am

Is this something that is going to be fixed in the next code update ??

I will try that next time thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Miller on September 21, 2012 at 3:35am

Hi Dudz

can you supply us with the link to what you got please ?

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Permalink Reply by dudz on September 21, 2012 at 8:20am

The Tracker ?  Ebay item 270992943447

One piece of advice on these trackers. When you install the battery, it is automatically on. Even if you switch it off, it seems to consume the battery. so I always take it out of the unit when not in use. I have to say, the GPS in the tracker is very good, it finds the location even indoors near small windows very quickly. Much quicker than my Garmin GPS that cost me 400 euros at the time. 

 The only downfall, are that the batteries are cheap and nasty. One of the two supplied swelled up after one charge, and now does not fit inside the unit. So I advise to search for better quality ones.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Patterson on September 24, 2012 at 5:21pm

Remember, commands are not waypoints. So when you put a command in, it's executed where ever your copter is at the time it encounters the command. 

I think it's very confusing that when you change a waypoint into a command, the waypoint symbol is left on the map in the planner. Personally, I think the waypoint icon should be removed from the map when you change it into a command. But for now it's not. You just have to disregard the map icons that are your commands (as far as navigation goes....).

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Permalink Reply by Stephen R Mann on September 24, 2012 at 10:01pm

it's executed where ever your copter is at the time it encounters the command. 

This is precisely why building a mission is most confusing.

Why can't someone simply say "go from here to here and do this"?

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Permalink Reply by Stephen R Mann on September 23, 2012 at 10:02am

If you configure your Mission Planner to use speech, you will hear "Heading to waypoint sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty five" at the end of your mission.

 

How do you do this?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Boland on September 23, 2012 at 12:06pm

Configuration tab/Planner and tick Enable Speech + Waypoints

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Permalink Reply by Stephen R Mann on September 23, 2012 at 6:08pm

D'oh!

I never looked at that page because it starts with "Video" and I don't have a video camera on the copter yet.

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Permalink Reply by Boston UAV on September 23, 2012 at 2:32pm

Wow, that explains an issue I had last night.

I just happened to stumble on this post, anyone know if there a way to view known bugs with the latest rev? (The bug tracker doesn't suffice IMO - although I review it every so often.)  I'd love to be on a mailing list for whatever the latest, stable, release is such that when an issue becomes recognized by the devs an email is sent...

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