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Maestro won't conect to Mission planer

Posted by Jesse May on August 17, 2014 at 10:53pm

Ok, so I do believe that I have followed everything as to what to do to set up the tracker as per here

http://vps.oborne.me/gcs/Tracker.html

and when I decided to connect from mission planer I get this message  (Bad user input, Input string was not in a correct format)  tried both ports and all the different baud rates..

I don't know, I'm lost please help

thanks Jesse

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  • Jesse May August 18, 2014 at 9:29pm

    Bad user input, Input string was not in a correct format

    So I did some research on this Error and this appears to be a code error. So I tried to reload the firmware and went through all the Steps on  my Maestro with 0 results. Grrrrrrrr!!! Do I have a bad Maestro? Has anyone ever had this error?

    Michael thanks for chiming in. on my matter..

    • Developer
      Michael Oborne > Jesse May August 18, 2014 at 10:45pm

      bad input string means you entered an invalid number in one of the box's

      • Jesse May > Michael Oborne August 19, 2014 at 5:56am

        ok so this is what I have

        Pan angle 180 , PWM range is 349.25 , center is 1480

        Tilt   angle 90 , PMW range is 528 , Center is 1424

        trim is set to 0 on both and

        Maestro is selected at com 17 with baud 9600

        • Developer
          Michael Oborne > Jesse May August 19, 2014 at 6:14am

          remove the .25 from pwm range.

          • Jesse May > Michael Oborne August 20, 2014 at 6:01pm
            Michael thank you so much you were correct the decimal number was not allowed to be inserted in the MP.
            Got any good threads on setup and use. I've been testing the tracker using telemetry files and it doe sent seem to be to accurate (it's a bit hard to explain)
            I'm wondering if I need to set my zero position mechanical closer to 1500 PMW. Or will that make any difference.
            Also while testing the tracker it seems that Tilt stays at a 45 degree when the aircraft is setting on the ground.
  • Jesse May August 18, 2014 at 6:40pm
    Also the maestro serial is set to USB Dual port
  • Jesse May August 18, 2014 at 5:08pm

    Humm.. no answers am I in the wrong form?

    • Developer
      Michael Oborne > Jesse May August 18, 2014 at 5:25pm

      make sure you select the correct comport

      • Jesse May > Michael Oborne August 18, 2014 at 6:36pm
        Yes I conformed that I'm on the correct com port as I checked through device manager there are 2 com ports that state maestro. One com17 is controller command port and the other is com16 controller TTL port

        Doe sent seem to make a difference either way.
  • Jesse May August 18, 2014 at 2:55pm
    just wondering, does the Maestro control center need to be running as well as the mission planer?
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