Hi All,
I finally got around to powering up my APM2 today and all initial steps seemed to go well. Driver installation, mission planner installation, firmware upload, connecting to APM2.. all were fine.
On about the fourth attempt to connect to the board, the Mavlink connect process stopped at "Got param COMPASS_OFX_X" and then timed-out to a "Connect failed" error. The details of the error as as follows "Timeout on read - getParamList 155 175 - Your serial link isn't fast enough".
The baud rate is set to 115,200 as it always has been. I've tried rebooting, removing/replacing data card, changing USB slots, reinstalling firmware.. all to no avail. Every single time I try to connect to APM2 now, it provides the same error.
Could this be a hardware failure?
Many thanks,
Matt.
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Thanks to all others who also helped eliminate other potential problems. The problem was that even though I read and re-read the instructions I did not notice that I need to uncomment that line in the APM_Config.h file. Didn't even notice that line at all. It took 3 minutes to get it all working.
# define CONFIG_APM_HARDWARE APM_HARDWARE_APM2
Matt,
Did you fix the issue? I have a similar problem