One of the priorities of the APM team is to continue to find new ways to make it easier to use. The Mission Planner is a big part of that, with it's one-click firmware loading, but author Michael Oborne has now done it again with a great installation utility (64-bit Windows here, 32-bit here) that not only installs the Mission Planner, but also detects which APM you have and installs the right driver for it. That's like five manual steps eliminated!
Great work, Michael!
(As always, it will also check for updates at startup and download the latest version)
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In the Windows Control Panel > Device Manager > Ports (COM & LPT)... there is one, lone listing for Arduino Mega 2560 (COM3)....
But in the drop dwon that you show in your screen capture, only TCP and UDP show up....
Taylor: if the com port doesn't show up in the drop down menu (mine, which happens to be 29, is shown below), then the driver wasn't installed right. Are you sure it's listed in your Windows Control Panel as a Com port?
The switch is not used any more (I certainly don't change it)
The TCP/UPD reference is, I believe, used to connect to a sim. Don't think it has anything to do with downloading firmware (not an option AFAIK)
While I'm asking Noobie questions.... I discovered the reference to the switch position under the "?" help tab.
I assume that this small, white switch should be towards the RC headers pins while I am trying to upload the Quadcopter firmware ? In the "Firmware" window, there is a drop down to select TCP or UDP? Which one ?
In the Terminal window, it asks for a remote host ip (by default, it seems to come up at 127.0.0.1) I assume this is the address where Mission Planner looks for the latest firmware ? It also asks for "enter remote port"... What is correct for this?
Thanks for the help!
-Taylor
in Mission planner, you need to select the port (3), choose ArduCopter, speed (115200) and click connect. You should see a lot of "stuff" screaming past in the other MP window.
Not much else to it AFAIK
Thanks... It's an APM1... the speed is definitely at 115,500 (I'm not at the right computer at the moment, so that number may not be exact.) The documentation says that the Port number is shown in Mission Planner, but I'm darned if I can see where that is. The Windows Device Manager clearly shows the Arduino board connected at Port 3 .....
-Taylor
If it is APM2, you need to upload (without pressing the connect button) new firmware first. After that, choose the port and 115200 speed and you should be good.
If it is APM1, make sure you have the port and speed correct.
The Mission Planner installer worked great for me.... and the USB interface is finding the Arducopter board, etc. on my brand new Windows 7 laptop, but I have run into a brick wall as far as going any further. Is there someone that I could pay for twenty minutes of assistance (by phone, Skype, e-mail, whatever...). If I could get my computer actually communicating with the Ardu board, I think I would be off an running....
Thanks!
-Taylor
im also uploading some new msi's right now, that will fix it.
actualy. this link
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8109
DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)
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