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Arducopter with APC220

Posted by Oliver on October 23, 2011 at 3:04am

Hello dear community,

 

I've got my Arducopter working now connected to an APC220 instead of a a XBEE. I can now access the sensor data "on the air" which works quite well. The only problem which I got is that I can't modify any PID / setup / Waypoint data etc on the Arducopter. Do you have any idea why this is? Am I missing there something? I had assumed that it would also be possible sending these information to the APM. That functionality not working would take a lot of worth out of the solution...3690895224?profile=original

 

Thank you for any hint,

Oliver

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  • Garth Tissington May 6, 2012 at 12:20am

    Hi, I have a APM1 and two APC220s + usb ttl converter (From Good Luck Buy).  I'm on MissionPlanner 1.1.80 mav 0.90 and Quad Firmware 2.5.4.

    I just cannot get the APC serial link to work?   Both APC220's work fine with RF Magic to set the baud rate etc.

    However, when I try to connect on COM2 (where the USBTTL dongle is configured) I just get a timeout in 30 seconds saying "No Heartbeat detected"  Rx TX lights on the APM1 do not even flicker

    I tied this also with HK GCS.  No luck there either.  So, I'm suspicious that either I have it connected wrong or one of the modules is defective.  I have double chcked and rechecked everything n the APC connecitons and it all looks good to me.

    Can anyone suggest a way that I can debug this further to identify the cause?  

    Thanks.

  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer January 24, 2012 at 12:50am

    Great, thank you very much

    cheers

  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer January 23, 2012 at 10:29pm

    Thanks. Xbees are hard to come by at the moment and fairly expensive so an alternative would be great. Glad to see you got it working. After your success I may just get some.

  • Oliver October 31, 2011 at 6:33am

    Thank you for your reply. After my marriage I now have time for Arducopter again.
    I've updated to AC 2.0.49 / MP 1.0.86 after your feedback. But still the same issue exists. I've also tried to enable the CH7 tuning by loading (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_SimpleMode, mode CH7_Auto_Trim) but still the same issue exists. Did you refer to an other mode?

     

     

  • Moderator
    Michael Pursifull October 24, 2011 at 4:52am

    But in your case, it might be an MP/code mismatch? I just noticed you're running 1.0.76, which is getting pretty old now. 

    You have to keep the MP and Ardu* paired because there are many changes on both as the features added or updated.

     

     

  • Moderator
    Michael Pursifull October 24, 2011 at 4:50am

    I do not believe it is related to your telemetry link. There is a new bug, I think maybe in 2.0.49, maybe 2.0.48, but I don't think so. 

     

    If you enable CH7 tuning by loading (See Ch7 Modes)  then make even one PID change that way, they you will be able to edit via Mission Planner. I haven't had time to poke around to figure out why, but there are at least five discussions on it in the forum so far. 

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