Hello!
I recently got a Holybro X500 V2 development kit which included a Pixhawk 6X flight controller. I planned to flash ArduPilot on it using the Mission Planner software but that didn´t work out. I always get the error, that Windows can´t recognize the plugged in USB device when I connect the Pixhawk to my PC via the USB cable. So my guess was that it has to do something with the virtual COM-Port or the drivers for it because it seems that Windows tries to recognise it as a standard USB device.
I did already some research and tried a few things but couldn´t get it to work. Here is a list of things I tried:
- Different USB Cables. I tried different USB-C to USB-A cables or USB-C to USB-C cables, as some people had problems with it.
- Connect the Pixhawk before/after entering the Configuration Menu in Mission Planner or QGroundControl
- Different USB Ports as some ports might not deliver enough power to supply the Pixhawk
- Different PC´s
- I disabled Driver Signature Enforcement in windows, because maybe those drivers included with Mission Planner or QGroundControl arent officially signed and therefore blocked. I then reinstalled everything again but that didn´t work.
- Downloaded all kinds of different drivers (like FTDI Chips) and tried to assign them manually in the device manager to the found device.
What does work is connecting the SiK Telemtry to my PC and the Pixhawk and start QGroundControl. Power is supplied via the USB-Cable that is connected to my PC. I can get a connection to the flightcontroller and do some basic configuration but I cant update the firmware or flash ardupilot via the telemetry connection. So this suggests that that the Pixhawk wasnt delivered with some kind of defect.
Somehow in all the set up tutorials I´ve watched this should simply work. I am pretty sure the problems have to do something with the virtual comport because windows always tries to recognise the device as a USB device.
Does anyone have some suggestions of what else I could try?
Best regards,
Andreas