Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Re: Futaba 5 channel radio showing six PPM

[Mohit Mundhra]

I populated my TWOG with all the sensors today and when I powered up
again, I am unable to get the RC link. I tried removing all of them
and started it again with just the modem, but still the RC link is not
there. It was working perfectly before. Now when I power cycle, it
shows it "OK" for few milliseconds, then LOST and then NONE. Is there
something which might be wrong? I tried with a fresh TWOG board and
same thing happened. :(

--
Mohit Mundhra





On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Paul Cox<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, I looked at pin 8 and found the pulses. I tried
> to look at that pin last night but when I did the servos plugged into the
> receiver went nuts so somehow my probing it messed it up. Not sure why
> tonight it's working better.
>
> Now that I have some working hardware, I'm trying to get the board
> communicating with the GCS. Last night I following the instructions at
> http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Compiling which showed communication had
> established successfully. Apparently the default setup uses 57.6kbps over
> the GPS serial port (otherwise known as the download header) to relay
> messages to the GCS, as that was the port I had hooked up and everything
> worked. After that I compiled the demo
> (http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Using_demo_programs_in_sw/airborne-tiny2.1 -
> to blink LEDs) which also worked. Tonight I wanted to replace the demo code
> with autopilot code, so I rebuilt with "make AIRCRAFT=MJ5 ap.upload (etc)"
> but my builds failed (gyro.c complaining about ADC_3 undeclared and lots of
> warnings that LED_6_PIN is getting redefined).  After using make with
> "clean_ac" I was able to get the code to build and upload to the Tiny. But
> what I don't understand is that the GCS now communicates with Tiny over the
> telemetry serial port (the one labeled "serial" on the PCB) at 9600bps. I'm
> glad it does since now I can hook up my XBee Pro, but I'd really like to
> understand why this change occurred when I haven't done anything to any
> source code or configuration files; only rebuilt. Maybe I rebuilt with
> slighly different target names? Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Also, what is a good way to tell if Tiny is seeing my receiver PPM and
> interpreting it correctly? Is there something I can look at in the GCS
> (beyond the "radio command status" color indicator which right now shows
> "NONE"-- although if I power cycle Tiny I see "OK" then "LOST" very
> briefly)  or should I enable something in the airborne code to spit out
> debug messages over the serial port or what?
>
> Sorry for the newbie type questions, I'm sure most of this will become more
> self evident as I start reading the code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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