Running the example skethces

Hi all,

I’m new to the ardupilot codebase and so I’m trying to go through the getting started wiki. I have the IRIS+ with the Pixhawk autopilot system. Currently, I’m working through the steps to build and run the examples sketches found at dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/learning- … -sketches/ on my controller. However, whenever I follow the steps here, I never am able to communicate with the Pixhawk over USB. I always see:

mavproxy.py --setup
Auto-detected serial ports are:
/dev/serial/by-id/usb-3D_Robotics_PX4_FMU_v2.x_0-if00
Connecting to /dev/serial/by-id/usb-3D_Robotics_PX4_FMU_v2.x_0-if00
Connect /dev/serial/by-id/usb-3D_Robotics_PX4_FMU_v2.x_0-if00 source_system=255
Log Directory:
Telemetry log: mav.tlog

And then nothing else ever happens. What I am doing wrong? I’ve tried this on both Linux and Mac, with no success.

As a side note, when I build the whole arducopter code base, I am able to communicate with it using the mavproxy.py command.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with ArudPlane. I am not able to communicate with the pixhawk over USB and I get the same message:

‘Connect /dev/serial/by-id/usb-3D_Robotics_PX4_FMU_v2.x_0-if00 source_system=255
Log Directory:
Telemetry log: mav.tlog’

And then nothing happens.

I am thankful for any help.

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