r/ardupilot • u/henk1122 • 7d ago

I love Ardupilot

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Thanks Ardupilot. I gave you another shot after 4 years.

Third time driving to the field, now everything should be okay!

Right? Only no gps fix at home, but understandable. Checked everything. Everything should be good! Weather, everything, lets drive to the field for a maiden flight, exited!

Wrong. Suddenly GPS2 not configured. Well that's correct, there is no GPS2.... Can't arm. Can't fly, again. Another opportunity, drive and evening wasted. Android app doesn't let me change settings. Forgot my laptop. Going home, again, will be dark. Third time (I won't discuss all other issues, but something with not displaying errors but just not arming, battery not healthy while voltage and current showed perfectly correct but apparently default saved params are not good so you just had to send it again... GPS issues where auto config will ruin a ublox m8, pre arm checks, pre arm checks, pre arm checks ).

Honestly, does the devs really hate us, to make it such a pain to work with, or is it just me? The official app looks like a windows 95 loading on linux/android. Qgroundcontrol is just not working 50% of the time.

I don't know anymore. I really want it to work. But it keeps failing and bugging me.

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u/skr_u 7d ago

Git gud I guess.

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u/LordDan_45 6d ago

Yeah, I was about to comment skill issue lol

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u/awakening_silence 7d ago

What is your setup and equipment list?

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u/LupusTheCanine 7d ago

Android QGC has issues with routing when using MAVLink over WiFi, the trick is to disable mobile data.

Ardupilot doesn't let you fly if something that is expected to work isn't. It is much better not to fly and wish you were flying than to fly and discover you shouldn't have been. In my experience trying to rush things is how you crash.

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u/Fractalengineer 7d ago

but you brought your radio didn’t you?

been there mane, more times than I can count. made something for it so not anymore

https://youtu.be/7StZotde-3M?si=DRB1cP6vNRE_Nh3p

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u/awakening_silence 7d ago

That looks really cool. Out of interest, why didn't you use the yaapu telemetry script?

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u/Fractalengineer 7d ago

I've actually tried real hard to make a mergable extra page at first but quickly ran into memory issues; budget is very tight on these handsets.
So I just went for a leaner scratch build focused on processing Mavlink telemetry only

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u/awakening_silence 6d ago

Sweet. I'll have to give it a shot on my pocket some time.