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Gender

Male


Location

NRW


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am relatively new to UAVs. At the moment i am in the process to build a quadcopter with APM 2.6 and a Taranis Tx/Rx set.


Hometown:

Cologne


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Thomas Schmitt replied to Thomas Schmitt's discussion Prearm Issues with APM 3.3 in ArduCopter User Group
"Hi all,
unfortunately the topic was not picked up until now in the support forum. Hopefully i will find some time on the weekend to dig into this a little bit more. First step is that I will try to load some of the older firmwares back to one of the…"
Apr 22, 2016
Thomas Schmitt replied to Thomas Schmitt's discussion Prearm Issues with APM 3.3 in ArduCopter User Group
"Dear all,
i opened an issue in the Arducopter 3.3 support forum Link. Hope that these guys have an idea or can fix the issue.

Thanks all for replying so fast!

Thomas"
Apr 20, 2016
Thomas Schmitt posted a discussion in ArduCopter User Group
Hi,since I use Copter 3.3 Firmware i have a strange behavior that i like to share here. Maybe the one or the other has the same effect or knows how to fix it.Description: If I try to arm my Pixhawk I get different prearming check failures (EKF...,…
Apr 20, 2016
Thomas Schmitt replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Hi all,

sorry to bother you with this but i was not lucky with the search function.
Some weeks ago i found a post here that described how you can extract the mavlink data again from the SBUS by decoding the signal you can get from the serial port…"
Dec 23, 2015
Thomas Schmitt replied to Thomas Schmitt's discussion Pixhawk (HKPilot32) delivers only 1 V instead of 3,3 V on connectors
"Hi Andre,
thanks for your reply. Yes you are right i mean the regulator and i also made a mistake with the voltage. Between GND and Vcc should be 5V (not 3,3V).
In the meanwhile i found out that one of the telemetry ports (Nr.1) still delivers 5V…"
Dec 15, 2015
Thomas Schmitt posted a discussion
Hi all,some days ago i started to configure my HKPilot32 which i had bought some months ago  on Ebay (together with some other stuff). I am using APMs for a while and wanted to get some of the new features which are in V3.3 (landing gear, kill…
Dec 11, 2015
Thomas Schmitt posted a discussion
Hi All,i am wondering if someone has successfully used the CH6 tuning option under AC 3.2.1? I tried this on an APM2.5 by using the latest Mission Planner software (1.3.31) and failed!Instead of getting the values form Ch6 tuning i only get some…
Aug 7, 2015
Thomas Schmitt replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Hi Paul and Luis,
thanks for your support. I also think this not easy to manage. May i try Pauls suggestion.
Have a good week.

Thomas"
Jul 27, 2015
Thomas Schmitt replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Hi all,
I asked myself if it is possible to show Simple Mode, Super S. Mode and Autotune on the Taranis display via telemetry. I am using the scripts of Luis V. (with some smaller modifications) but i was not able to find out which value in the…"
Jul 26, 2015
Thomas Schmitt replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Hi,
thanks for this great explanation. I will try to dig into this in the next days and will post my results here.

Happy flying
Thomas"
Mar 24, 2015
Thomas Schmitt replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Hi Luis,
thanks fo the explanation. I upgraded to 2.0.15 and set the variables but still no luck. I found out by some basic debbuging that the logical switches are recognized correctly. What is not set correctly is "FmodeNr=getValue(208)+1" (Line…"
Mar 23, 2015
Thomas Schmitt replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Dear all,
i am trying to set up the scripts of Luis Vale on my Taranis. Everything worked in principal and i got some infos to the screen but not all. Especially i do not get the flight modes from my APM ("FlightMode mismatch). I read  many of the…"
Mar 23, 2015