by GoFaster » Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:39 am
I'm going to piggyback onto this thread as I seem to be having similar difficulties or misunderstanding of how things are supposed to work.
I've flashed 6.5 to the board successfully then removed J4 and rebooted the board.
From QGC, I connect to the board at 115200 baud. Nothing shows up in the serial monitor, the PID fields are blank. Even though the board has not been calibrated yet, would there be default PID values? Also nothing in the HUD is active but there are big green jagged areas and lines that are randomly flashing about.
In addition, I looked at the uSD card on the PC and there are no files on it. Shouldn't there be log files? Does the board have to be powered down in a certain way in order to properly close any open file while it's logging?
Tried 6.6 with the same results.
PC is Windows 7 32bit, Sparkfun 3.3v FTDI (J3 is not jumpered). QGC 1.0.1 AlphaRC18. Board is powered via 2S LiPo. In 'flash' mode, the red LED is on solid. In normal mode, the red LED is on solid, the green LED is blinking regularly, the debug LED is very dimly flashing and the blue GPS LED blinks intermittently. I do not have the GPS antenna connected at this point.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
- Felix