Copter-4.4.0-beta4 available for beta testing

@Michael_SC,

To reduce the response to the rangefinder during terrain missions in Auto mode I think it would be better to adjust SURFTRAK_TC rather than RNGFND_FILT. The difference is:

  • SURFTRAK_TC filters the estimated altitude above the terrain
  • RNGFND_FILT filters the rangefinder distances

There’s really no difference when the vehicle is not moving and level but there will be subtle differences when the vehicle is moving and accelerating.

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@ctaylo,

Looks like others have answered your question but in any case, perhaps try formatting or replacing the SD card in the autopilot.

Thanks for testing and reporting back!

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Hi @kalai1219,

Yes, that’s right. There are new scripting bindings and an example script that allow custom actions to be taken in case of a motor loss is detected.

@rmackay9 I don’t find any custom action in the script if any lost motor.
mission planner has option that in HUD that it will display potential thrust loss including which motor was failed.
what is this new script will differ from normal mission planner potential thrust loss.
what is the custom action here?

Hi @kalai1219,

Ah, to be clear, the script doesn’t do anything useful. It’s just an example so that people could add custom behaviours if they want to.

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fine. sorry to ask here about category 4.3.7 about Geo fence action behavior’s changed?
loiter mode fence action not hold the before fence instead it do RTL in both MAX altitude fence as well as MAX Range fence.

I have met an issue that need expertise on this.
I’m NOT sure what’s going on here. I have met this on beta3 also, but I don’t have the log file.

Hi @kalai1219,

There shouldn’t have been any changes in the fence behaviour and I’m pretty sure we have an autotest to protect against the stopping-at-fence behaviour from being broken. Are you sure that avoidance was enabled?

Do you mean AVOID_ENABLE = 3 ( fence as well as proximity sensor).

If you want to confirm i have shared the log in that topic which shared above log.

Hi @kalai1219,

Thanks for the report. I’ve just tested Loiter mode in Copter-4.4.0-beta4 and it stopped at the altitude fence and at the polygon fence.

If you could check with Copter-4.4.0 (not 4.3.7) then I’m happy to take a look if you’ve got a log. Simply setting AVOID_ENABLE=3 and FENCE_ENABLE=1 should be enough in most cases.

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Had some issues when uploading firmware firmware was hanging. I think it was a com port issue on my end. Thanks for EVEYTHING YOU GUYS DO!

I moved to a different com port not the one on my external drive, rebooted the PC and ran a older copy of Mission Planer. Assuming something to do will the external drive. Installed now.

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My first flight. I think Yaw is over correcting turning the craft left and right. feels off from the way it was before the upgrade. after lift off the craft starts turning right when I try to straighten it out it turns left. Almost like it can’t go straight when flying. Yapuu seems to be responding wrong with a tons of bad verbose, like motors armed, motors disarmed fence enabled all in a quick string.

I think the best way to describe YAW is a hat dance via user correction.

I noticing some higher than normal x vib possibly the FC is a tad loose. also can go down to 9" props and check the mounting of the GPS. Meaning it could be just hardware.

Hi all, did some fine tuning and fell back to stable temporary. fly’s well I did a VTOL quicktune that I could see Yapuu report it to work everything but the last save string message. User reported that he did not see his save. All the other functions show as it runs the PIDs

BTW can i see the messages in the LOG file?

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I got everything working as before, now i can test the new beta to see what went wrong in my case with the Yaw.

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Tested this version on Pixhawk6x OK.
Thanks
:+1:

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@Karl_Schoelpple,

Great, thanks for the feedback! It helps!

Flew 4 logs yesterday - all great!

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@andyp1per,

thanks very much for the testing and feedback!

All seems well after the rebuild. Nice to be able to have a frame printed ready to go with a plastic cost of around 16.00 usd.

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