Which firmware version is currently best

Posted by RoboBill on October 18, 2014 at 5:06pm

I read somewhere the official 2.46 had track steering problems. I understand the current beta fixes that issue. Many thanks to all developers. But the current beta now seems to have disabled the GPS's. Since I'm working with Piksis, I really don't know how far back I can go where I have track steering and my Pixhawk recognizes the Piksi RTK.... so which version is best?

BTW is backing up on the horizon?

Thanks 

RoboBill

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    • RoboBill October 18, 2014 at 9:37pm

      @TCIII

      Using the latest 2.47 beta, I enabled both GPS' and the auto switch. I plugged the 3DR into 1 and the Piksi is on 2. I toyed around with the type setting trying both Auto and specific. I could not get the Pixhawk to recognize either GPS... the LED stayed blue. If I went back to the original 2.46, the LED went to green and I got 3DR Fix on the HUD. (I still have yet to get RTK, but that's another issue). 

      Thanks

      RoboBill

    • RoboBill October 19, 2014 at 1:51pm

      @TCIII

      I've never dealt with any log stuff. When reading about it, I got completely lost... i.e. the mission planner is looking for a *.log file. I found the tlog and rlog files. The rlog files go empty after I disconnect.  So sorry, it's just too confusing. I just could not find a simple "for dummies" description on how to create the file you want. So I'll just have to wait. 

      For what its worth, I noted that the Pixhawk LED went green on start up as it should for ~ 10 seconds then went blue.

      Thanks

      RoboBill

    • RoboBill October 19, 2014 at 5:29pm

      @TCIII

      I clicked on "Download Dataflash via MavLink" and got the error "Cannot find Log List". After restarting the Pixhawk several times, I was finally able to get the screen you referred to. A whole bunch of files were created but I think I've attached the log file you want.

      Thanks

      RoboBill

      2014-10-19 16-46-19 3.bin.log

    • RoboBill October 20, 2014 at 8:39am

      @TCIII

      Thanks for the quick analysis.

      I set the gps_navfilter according to this ublox manual I found. After I changed the gps_navfilter to 8, the Pixhawk LED did turn green for a second but then went back to blue.

      Since I can make the Pixhawk LED turn green with an older firmware, can I assume its a FW bug? If so, how can I help expedite the fix? Do I need to report it somewhere?

      Thanks

      RoboBill

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