I'm currently running a APM 2.5+ board on a skywalker 1880. Due to tightly packed electronics, occasionally the compass will give out bad reading and the "BAD Compass Health" warning will show on mission planner's HUD. Despite the error, the plane still flies perfectly. The problem is it will be in a competition soon, and I don't want the message showing up during flight with judges watching. Does anyone know if it's possible to disable that warning?
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Now that the competition's over I may actually try that. I wonder if it will display it on the HUD and read it out loud.
In copter it's possible to disable some of the individual checks that are run when you arm a copter by changing the values in the ARMING_CHECKS parameters but this is quite different from the checks that are causing the bad-compass-health messages that you're seeing. I suspect these are real read failures although it's hard to be sure without a log.
I purchased two ext. mags from ebay for $3 each inc shipping, so the solution need not be expensive
Now that the competition's over, thats what I'm going to do. I have an external compass which I tried to put in until I found out a solder bridge needed to be cut on the board. I didn't want to cut that right before the competition in fear of messing it up and accidentally destroying the board. I ended up just telling the judges that it wouldn't cause a flight failure.
Yes you can disable any of the warnings, this can be done in the extended parameter, I just do not know where to direct you
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