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Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3

Started this discussion. Last reply by Vernon Barry May 8. 15 Replies

Hi everyone,For a student project, I had to make an arducopter, all is fine ... without the Xbee modules.In fact, I can't get them comunicate in the two ways. I succeeded to receive something from…Continue

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Vernon Barry replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"Which APM do you have? A fair amount of us have seen this problem with APM 2.0. From what I can tell the automux on APM2.0 cannot "drive" the loads of some Xbee carriers and thus this is the exact problem at least 5 of us had. In some…"
May 8
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"I tried a range test and all is OK from the XBee's. The problem is between the UAV's XBee and the ArduPilot-Mega board, but I checked all the connections and all is ok. After another test I can say that if I do a physical loop between the…"
May 8
Rana replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"http://wiki.openpilot.org/display/Doc/Configure+Xbee+via+Windows Every XBee network requires one node that is configured to perform the role of the Coordinator. This is true even if all you want to do is establish a transparent serial link between…"
May 8
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"Hi bypbop, I tried some other tests, and I now have a reception from the drone to the Ground Control, but I can't send something to it, so I can't connect with APMission Planner but i can see the virtual horizon and the parameters (read…"
May 8
bypbop replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"Hi Chyndra,   What's news ? Best regards"
May 5
Chydra replied to bypbop's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and Arducopter
"Hi, I made some other tests and I can receive the signal, but I always have the "getting params" problem. I looked if it was a dual-way connection and it is. I finally tried with QGroundControl's GCS and I successed in connecting with…"
Apr 28
Chydra replied to bypbop's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and Arducopter
"Hi, Yes of course and, to be sure I connect my arducopter to a PC and the XBee receptor to another. Series 2 can have incompatibilities with some adapters but Series 1 seems to be ok. Does anybody have a fully functionnal telemetry communication…"
Apr 5
Chydra replied to bypbop's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and Arducopter
"Hie, I'm french too !I bought the Séries 1 because I never made my S2 working. But I have another problem : i can't connect with Mission Planner. What does it says for you ? Best regardsChydra"
Mar 30
Quentin Mayberry replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"Turned out to be a faulty receiver, works fine with a new one."
Mar 14
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"I successed to have a connection with fully 100% on range test, but I can't connect with APM Mission Planner and this part have to work for sunday ... Any suggestion ? thanks"
Mar 14
Quentin Mayberry replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"I have just created my own quad and am using an apm 2 and a spektrum dx8, AR7000 and TM1000 telemetry module. I couldn't get an xbee connection at all. This was strange as I regularly fly an aircraft with arduplane and xbee's pro s2's…"
Mar 13
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"I received my new XBee Series 1, I have the same problem : When I try to connect with APM Mission Planner I have this : "INFO ArdupilotMega.MAVLink - lost 31 pkts 284INFO ArdupilotMega.MAVLink - MAVLINK: S wait time out btr 0 len 0INFO…"
Mar 7
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"My Xbees are now working in both ways, but I get something like that : " U8 " So I think there's a problem. What should I see ?"
Feb 23
kiki replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"I'm still waiting form my new XBees, but i dont think you can upload Series1 FW .. As for my old ones .. suddenly they worked again, but very bad connection ..  So its definetly a HW problem...  "
Feb 22
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"Is it possible to use them with a serie 1 firmware ? We could test if the problem is an hardware problem or just a firmware."
Feb 22
Chydra replied to Chydra's discussion Xbee Serie 2 and arducopter 2.3
"Maybe my Xbee's are too died, isn't it ? I'll order some XBee S1 I think, because S2 are too complicated for what I want to do ... "
Feb 22

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