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Minimosd stuck on waiting for mavlink heartbeats after firmware upgrade

Posted by Glenn M on June 15, 2012 at 1:16am

I've just given minimosd the firmware upgrade to support Mavlink 10, and now it will boot up but will never get past 'waiting for mavlink heartbeats'.

I'm running 2.6 on an APM1 2560 and have made sure that my board is using mavlink 10. Eg I am using APM planner 1.1.92 mav 10 and it connects fine. The minimosd is one of the earlier ones - version 0.1

I have been using this osd with mavlink 0.9 for the last few months with no problems. It is just since the firmware upgrade that it won't work.

I have tried putting the old mav 0.9 firmware back on the minimosd, and changing the APM board to disable mavlink 10 via arduino and reuploading, but even that doesn't work any more! It still gets stuck at 'waiting for mavlink heartbeats'

I've checked that the wires are connected correctly from the telemetry port on the APM, and that they aren't broken, and have also checked (and reflowed) the pins at both the APM end and minimosd end to make sure none of them were loose.

I don't have xbees either.

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  • Glenn M June 17, 2012 at 2:14am
    I think we have different issues, but you can re enable mavlink 0.9 in your apm_config.H by uploading the code via arduino.
  • Eric Tweet June 16, 2012 at 8:49pm

    I'm in a similar boat. I don't have a cable to update the MinimOSD firmware, but I've upgraded to 2.6 on my APM (which is now MAV1.0). I haven't tried booting up with the OSD, but instead I'm looking for a way to revert to MAV 0.9 until I can get my hands on a cable.. Too bad there's not an option in Mission Planner to select which MAVLINK version to use..

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