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Permalink Reply by Kirill on October 24, 2011 at 12:30pm

What version of Mission Planner do you use? Try to update to the latest one firstly.

btw, have you tried to upload via Arduino recently?

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd DeForrest on October 24, 2011 at 1:01pm

Krill,

Downloaded v1.0.85 last night  - I presume thats the current one.

BTW - the Flight Data feature in the planner works fine with the old software load, if that helps.

And no, I have not tried to download the software via the IDE yet - was hoping to get the planner to do it since its so much easier.    Will try to download via the IDE tonight.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Kirill on October 24, 2011 at 1:09pm

Yes, 1.085 is the latest one.

Have you set a tick "Set RTS on close" in advanced COM port settings on your pc?

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd DeForrest on October 24, 2011 at 3:01pm

yes I did.

 

Has anyone ever seen that not so descriptive error message in conjunction with downloading (to the PC) and uploading (to the APM) the firmware?

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on October 24, 2011 at 6:09pm

there are a couple of reason why this could be failing

 

1. cant write to firmware.hex, in the planner directory

2. some google local cacheing issue. (does happen)

 

and thats realy about it.

can you try say the hil firmware to test?

 

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd DeForrest on October 24, 2011 at 7:17pm

Michael,  I got it working.  Thank you.

# 1 was the clue.  

I re-downloaded the Mission Planner folder to the C drive and all works now. 

Thanks again.

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd DeForrest on October 25, 2011 at 8:40am

Michael,

I forgot to mention the root cause of my problem, which may be helpful to others. 

When downloading the folder of APM Mission Planner files, the file firmware.hex file was set with a Windows 7 security flag called "Security:  This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer".  I needed to unblock the file under the file’s properties to get Mission Planner to work. 

Thanks again for the clue.

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Permalink Reply by madhuran wilson on October 26, 2011 at 11:07am

hey, 

 

im having the same problem, i checked the file permissions and set them for full control, it still giving me the error, with some additional errors,

 

thats the error im getting now

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on October 27, 2011 at 9:14pm

your error is diffrent. IT failed trying to download the eeprom. i would check your cabaling/ makesure its not browning out. ie unplug servos

 

check also you have the rts setting set

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Permalink Reply by madhuran wilson on October 28, 2011 at 3:51am

rts is set on close, its been working for an year now, it worked last week, i have two ardupilots, one of them worked last week, and I uploaded the arduplane code, now both of them don't work...

and i dont have any servos connected..could it be some sort of windows issue?

Permalink Reply by Andre Kotze on January 3, 2012 at 3:13pm

I am getting the following error when attempting to update my APM using the mission planner. Any suggestions please?

 

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on January 3, 2012 at 4:21pm

are you behind a proxy? the error is because the planner could not download the firmware file for some reason.

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