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Permalink Reply by Owen Booth on March 29, 2012 at 3:20pm

I'm in the same boat Ross. Worked fine when I first installed it, then I got the FTDI cable and changed the data layout, saved it etc. Now it won't overlay anything. I'll have a play though, and keep you posted!

 cheers

Owen

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on March 29, 2012 at 3:49pm

try doing a firmware and font update on it, just to make sure.

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Permalink Reply by Ross on March 30, 2012 at 12:27pm

I did the firmware and font upgrade with no luck.

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Permalink Reply by Owen Booth on March 30, 2012 at 1:17pm

I also did the Firmware and CharSet again and no change.

All looks good on the config screen, but doesn't translate to output.

 

At one point I got a small ArduCam logo up in the center of the screen, but that just hung. So the overlay appears to work,but it's just like my ex-wife, not putting out.

It worked when before I upgraded the firmware, awesome.

Can we get access to original firmware, and try setting that back to original?

Guess it won't be far off before this little chipset is built-in to the APM boards, or as a daughterboard option eh?

regards,

Owen

 

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Permalink Reply by Ross on March 30, 2012 at 4:16pm

Owen...Sorry to hear about your ex-wife... :)

I am not sure if it is a problem with the firmware. The firmware that is on mine that is not working, is the same firmware and chars on a different one that works fine. I also tested the one that works, on the new APM and that was successful. (Sorry this is confusing)

It seems hardware related to me, but these are my first 2 osds of this type...and am definitely no expert.

 

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Sandro Benigno on March 30, 2012 at 5:04pm

Ross, it sounds prety much like a hardware problem. I didn't see nothing like this until now.

I need to ask: Are both of them from DIYD store? What is the color and version of the board?

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Permalink Reply by Ross on March 30, 2012 at 5:48pm

Yes. Both of mine are from the diy store. The color is purple and at least one of them is v0.1. I will look at the other one tonight.

Thanks,

Ross

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Permalink Reply by Ross on March 31, 2012 at 6:00am

Both of mine are v0.1.

Thanks,

Ross

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Permalink Reply by Owen Booth on March 30, 2012 at 5:54pm

Mine's also a Purple one, from the DIYD store, and version "V0.1"

cheers Sandro

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Sandro Benigno on March 31, 2012 at 9:03am

@Owen, @Ross: Next two questions for you both is: How are you feeding your boards? Did you solder those two jumpers on each side? Are you connecting MinimOSD's RX and TX or just RX?

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Permalink Reply by Owen Booth on March 31, 2012 at 3:03pm

HI Sandro,

 I didn't solder the jumpers,( I'm using 12v from the camera, v-in side)

Perhaps I read the instructions wrong, but as I don't have an XBee, I am connecting the OSD's RX AND TX to the APM.

cheers

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Sandro Benigno on March 31, 2012 at 7:02pm

It's OK. You did it right.
I suggest you to make a test from the simple to the complex. Firstly, we need to get your MinimOSD working out of the APM. It should present the Splash screen and show the sentence "Waiting for MAVLink heartbeats...".

Just use an FTDI cable (which will power the first stage of MinimOSD) and the 12V plus a monitor on it's video output.

How does it go in that way?

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