Bad LIDAR Health with VL53L1X

By testing with different lidar and sonar I am stuck with the lidar VX53L1X, and constantly get “Bad LIDAR Health”. I have tested two units with the same result.

On the contrary, the tests with the lidar VX53L0X are satisfactory.

These are the parameters modified according to the recommendation:

RNGFND1_TYPE = 16 (same as VL53L0X)
RNGFND1_ADDR = 41 (The sensor’s default I2C address is 0x29 hexademical which is 41 in decimal)
RNGFND1_SCALING = 1
RNGFND1_MIN_CM = 5
RNGFND1_MAX_CM = 360 for the VL53L1X.(120 for the VL53L0X)
RNGFND1_GNDCLEAR = 15

Anyone have experience with this lidar?

Thanks.

There are quite a few subtle differences between these sensors and the drivers. If you compare the source code for the two devices you will see that the internal registers and values are different which is why is isnt responding as expected.

but VL53L1X works? I also get “Bad LIDAR Health”

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Well, I got it working at home but not in the field, but in any case it doesn’t seem reliable. However the results with his little brother have been good although the range is too short.

Hi, I have a bad results … Works but is better with only optical flow, without this lidar.
Here some pictures

RNGFND1_MIN_CM = 5 - RNGFND1_MAX_CM = 100
When you set the values ​​in this way, there is no problem as long as it stays between this range. I guess you will experience it when the boredom goes outside of this range. Have you ever tried?