I just had a completely lousy crash yesterday in the middle of a very successful flight... My setup has an externally powered 1W Xbee Xtend, so the range on the GCS is farther than the Spektrum DX8/AR8000 combo. While coming around to my last…
I recently added the Xbee Xtend 900 to the APM. Prior to that with the Xbee Pro 900, everything was OK aside from poor range with the unit. I believe that two recent crashes involved a brownout on the APM sometime after sending commands via the…
I've been flying with the APM for months, and until a week ago, didn't have any troubles. Last week I had a plane go down in the woods after issuing a guided mode command "fly to here". I wasn't able to determine the cause of the crash, but the APM…
"I'm noticing something like this in 2.23. My plane was going along in auto just fine, and when I switched to RTL, it death spiraled into the ground. I checked my modes in the MP and they were setup correctly... Previous versions the RTL mode worked…"
When uploading the firmware via APM mission planner, how do I change the telemetry from USB to PORT3 (xbee?) I can't seem to do it via CLI and nothing is changed...
"Note: I also disabled my airspeed sensor after having these problems in hopes that it might fix the issue... It appears that it's helped a tiny bit... but I'm cruising at 30mph normally (tailwind, perpendicular) and <10mph into headwind."
I'm flying a Skywalker that can easily handle 15mph winds... and yet this morning with ~2-3mph winds, the plane makes it out to waypoint one and turns back only to sit there in the air hovering.Airspeed Cruise is 16 m/sThrottle Cruise 55Throttle Min…
"I'm willing to purchase you a test Dronecell to get this going... now for the VCOM port, there are many third party tools that convert IP to a local port. That would be convenient down the line to integrate.
I'm looking for help in getting the Dronecell integrated with APM 2.12 so that I can use it for two-way telemetry. I assume the biggest issue is getting the IP address and then setting up a virtual COM port to connect to it... If possible, I'd like…
"I've gone through the Tuning process, but Auto should still control the throttle (no?). Do you know the difference between the 1.0 APM board and 1.4? Is it likely that there could be bad hardware?"
This is really a two part question since I've been unable to find a definitive answer.1- What is the difference between v1.02 and the current v2.12 of APM? My impression is that v2.12 offers newer features, just recently came out of beta, etc.2- My…