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HIL_MODE_SENSORS? Anyone using this?

Posted by Andrew Rabbitt on October 12, 2011 at 5:02am

I've been successfully using HIL with X-plane and APM Planner Buld 1.0.16, but decided last night to try to get it to run with X-plane supplying all the sensor data and having the DCM strut its stuff.

Alas, no joy was had as the APM Planner always times out when trying to connect.

I'm running APM 2.12 at the moment - slightly behind the times, I know, but...

Is anyone flush with success in this field?

Any pointers?

Thanks

Andrew

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  • avionics October 13, 2011 at 7:37am

    well eventually i got it going !! how ??/ I had to reload the X-plane parameters that i had luckily saved before, so I have a feeling that when I reset everything the parameters some how are not compatible. the sympton being the plane can be controlled manually but on Auto or RTL or basically on IMU the plane gets inverted and crash eventually.

    I wonder if the resetting by terminal can make any changes that i didnt have it before, as before didnt do that.

    any way now it works in X-plane as before.

     

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    Michael Oborne October 13, 2011 at 3:55am

    Andrew, what are you aiming for? at the moment sensor level hil just feeds in gyro rate and accel data. not adc level. and does wotk in xplanes and flightgear last time i tested

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    Michael Pursifull October 12, 2011 at 5:17am

    The newest versions I have run are 1.0.2.24 with X-plane 9.7 and a very recent version of MP.

    I have not had any problems. You have to "translate" some of the X-plane UI settings.... make sure you are changing the right network settings, as they moved them around, and there are lots of network "display" and master console and other settings that look the same, but are not... 

  • avionics October 12, 2011 at 5:17am

    well now that could mean something. since last night i have been fiddling with my APM and the Mission planner since i upgraded mine to 1.0.81 i uploaded the latest program via the Mission planner and i ca not fly auto i can only fly manual and i also noticed that the in simulation menu on MP there is no data update which suggests that data is not being read by APM and when i play around and select flight gear some data starts to show but obviously Xplane is not now talking. I wonder if there is a problem now that you mention it too ???

     

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