Cant program my APM 2 with mission planner

Posted by Brian Carpenter on December 30, 2012 at 3:32pm

Hey guys, i am new here.  i bought an APM2 back in June but due to a home remodel i am just now getting to it.

I have the mission planner installed now on 2 PC's now.  I plug the USB cable into the APM2 and try to connect. nothing. it wont connect.  says something about mavlink.  I am not using radios, just a usb cable.  Dying to fly.  what do i need to do?

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  • Thomas the Nerd December 31, 2012 at 10:56am

    The APM2 boards I got earlier this year came with Mavlink 0.9, the new Mission Planner uses Mavlink 1.0 exclusively. You may need to run Mission Planner with Mavlink 0.9, update the APM2 firmware to the latest version (2.8.1, which uses Mavlink 1.0), and then switch to the latest version of Mission Planner with Mavlink 1.0.

  • Brian Carpenter December 30, 2012 at 8:41pm
    Chris, you are a correct. I don't have another cable tonight but I read the writing on the cable I am using and it says For Charging Only. Doh! I will have to get a cable tomorrow
  • Brian Carpenter December 30, 2012 at 7:52pm
    Ok. A little more info.
    I have now attempted to instal the mission planner on 3 pc's. on the first 2 ( windows 7 and vista machines) during install it was given another window that said it was going to install the ardupilot port on the pc. After connecting the apm2 to the pc I do not get a driver install notice. When I go into my device manager I do not see any ports in the USB area that are for the arduino and it shows nothing connected. When I installed it on my xp machine it did not give me the arguing port set up windo. Pretty lost at this point.
    On the ardupilot I get a blue light on the GPS that starts out blinking then goes solid blue.
    I have a solid green light and then I have alternating lights c and a are on together and then they go off and b comes on alternating
  • Randy Brazeau December 30, 2012 at 3:57pm

    Make sure you have the correct COM port selected. Top right hand side of MP.

    More info would help. Example, do you get lights on the APM? Error messages?

    Randy

  • Brian Ward December 30, 2012 at 3:54pm
    Hey Brian,
    Did you download the appropriate firmware for your vehicle? You have to do that before you get into any of the other programming functions.

    Cheers!
  • Benny Simonsen December 30, 2012 at 3:41pm

    Hi,

    Check here: AC2Installation

    /Benny

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