ConfiguratorTool error: Missing library

Hi guys!

This is my first post, so please take it easy on me. I received my ArduCopter this week and assembling went smoothly. I have been flying a MikroKopter Quad and a MikroKopter Octo for two year, so I'm not entirely new to the field. I'm an embedded software engineer (mostly Linux) by profession, with a heavy background in electronics. So most problems I can fix myself, but not this one:

Yesterday I was trying to configure my ArduCopter, using the ConfiguratorTool. Unfortunately this tool depends on the Instruments LABView runtime library. This library, 160MB of it, comes in a wide variety of flavours and versions: minimum/standard, 32/64-bit and 2009/2010. Each one takes ages to download and even longer to install, reboot try if it works and finally to uninstall.

I have found one version to 'work'. That is: With that version he ConfiguratorTool doesn't immediatly complain about the missing runtime library at launch. Not surprisingly that's the version mentioned in the Wiki (good job btw). But when trying to connect to the ArduCopter, it still produces an error about a missing library.

So I've been trying most combinations, until late last night: The Wiki link leads to a 32-bit version, but I've got a 64-bit machine and Windows 7 to match. So trying the 64-bit version seemed logical, but that version isn't detected at launch.

Any idea?
(I'm sorry for my verbosity ;-)

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Ed Windham December 9, 2010 at 10:25am

I purchased an ArduCopter kit from DIY and I am having problems with sensor readings in the configurator. The initialization of the EEPROM and calibration was very easy though a little frustrating until I found out that if position hold or altitude hold are on you cannot calibrate the throttle. My problem, if one exists, is that when I look at the sensor readings, I get nothing when I move the boards. Am I doing something wrong or do I have bad gryos/ac?
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Sandro Benigno December 5, 2010 at 11:58am

Richard, when you're using Arduino IDE, everything is OK? What port you use there?
Robert December 4, 2010 at 10:19am

Thanks for al the answers, guys! What eventually worked for me was to first uninstall all the NI stuff and then to install the AeroQuad configuration tool. The installer contains the proper NI runtime library and with the AeroQuad configuration tool installed, the ConfiguratorTool works properly too.

And in it's defense: It works really well! I've got no problem connecting, not even with the default timeout. It shows all the info I need and there's even some help included.

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