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Permalink Reply by Darren on March 21, 2011 at 7:24pm

Robb, your going to need a custom APM_Config.h with the following

#define SERIAL3_BAUD    9600

 

If you need help setting this up, i can walk you through it...

Hit me up on PM or on Live Chat

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Permalink Reply by sedat öztürk on September 19, 2011 at 12:58am

Hello my friends,

I buy a set of ardupilotmega and a telemetry kit in order to use in my model plane.
But unfortunately I was unable to get a data link with my Xbee-XSC’s.As I search on google I read your comments about the subject. I have a XtreamBee V1.2 adapter on plane side and Sparkfun’s XBee Explorer USB on laptop side. Even if I set the baud to 9600 on config.h I barely can connect to the Ardupilotmega board. As I focused on the subject, I see that I am able to connect and get the data only twice with a success right after a firmware re-loading.If I power-off and on more than two times it is not possible to get any data. When I dig deeper on it I see that, after I reset the EEProm I also get the data only twice with a success.The worse thing is after the second power off, if I try to conect by the telemetry, I see that the EEProm changes. So if I reset the EEProm the link comes back… Do you have any idea?

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on March 22, 2011 at 5:59am

Robb,  9600 is a poor choice for XBee baud rate.  If you turn on even one of the telemetry data streams as a high rate you are likely to swamp the channel.  56K is the recommended baud rate.  Many are using 115K without issue.

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Permalink Reply by Robb Smith on March 22, 2011 at 10:47am

Darren, thank you for replying but I already have that in my APM_Config.h file and it doesn't work. What is PM and I believe I will hit you up for live chat but it will most likely be tomorrow if that is good for you. Doug, I have to use 9600 baud because that is the rate limit that these two particular XBee's can transfer. I would go 56k if I could...

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Permalink Reply by Robb Smith on March 22, 2011 at 10:55am

Ok now I have been searching on how to do a direct chat with someone and cannot figure it out...

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Permalink Reply by Darren on March 22, 2011 at 11:51am

Robb, on main page for diydrones, scroll to very bottom, you will find the DIY Drones Chat.

 

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Permalink Reply by dylan on December 10, 2011 at 6:07pm

Can you guys share what you did to get the SERIAL3_BAUD line changed and uploaded?

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by John Church on December 10, 2011 at 8:40pm

If you're using Planner, you don't need to change any code for that. Look for SERIAL3_BAUD in the parameters list and change the value to either 9, 19, 56, etc..

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Permalink Reply by dylan on December 10, 2011 at 8:47pm

Found it, so do I write in 9600 or just 9?

Is these a guide for this list of paramiters? Ive looked al over the wiki...

thanks for your help :)

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