I had an old APM flight controller (3.2.1 fw) that I thought I would put to work on a HEX. When I tried to calibrate the compass using MP 1.3.44, I got a "Compass Calibration FAILED" message. No matter how I tried, I couldn't get the compass to calibrate when using the dynamic calibration method.
I connected using USB, then radio. Neither one would work. The little "globe" rotated, and points lit up. It appeared to work, but wouldn't complete successfully.
Finally, I brought up APM Planner2. That worked fine.
So, apparently Mission Planner's compass calibration routine (at least with APM boards and HEX models) is broken.
If I perform the compass calibration routine, and MP says there is a fail, do the offsets get stored in the flight controller, or not? In other words, did the compass calibration actually work in the controller even though MP said it did not?
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