Qground Control Sequence Error

Are you guys on stock SV firmware, or master? I was using Tower just the other day and my SV loaded and flew the plan just fine.

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Neeko, my Skyviper is stock running what I assume is the latest SV firmware . Am I correct in thinking the app updated and pushed to drone automatically ? I was able to conect with Tower back in January but weather was never good for flying so I was just playing around trying to learn the basics of how the planning worked . Also I was having an issue then with error msgsaying bad loging and no i/o Heartbeat or something . Things went quickly out of wack shortly after that with me making two errors and disarming the drone accidently while about 25 feet resulting in a broken front left arm being completely broken right where the flange is for the two screws join it to the body , I replaced that motor with the wifeā€™s help dam those wires are tiny . Of course I had to do it twice due to wire colors not matching and me trying to guess . Glued and taped that arm back in place . Did a factory reset, struggled with calibration . Still think my compass maybe off . But after failing to be able to do rotating calibration due to no progress bar ever showing up , quick calibration got me airborne again flew well from then on maybe about 50 or 60 nice 6 to 9 min flights . I stopped trying to use tower or the sky viper app and fly mainly Los with the web 192. ā€¦ interface . Its only been last few weeks ive tried to use Qground or tower again , no longer get bad loging error but Tower app crashes Q conects but wont upload more than one way point. Last weekend I noticed rear motor starting to fail started getting ground mag errors as well and video got super jello . Started motor replacement . Dam those small wires and my shakey hands . .Surprise wife tells me she ordered a new 2450 gps online will be here . Sometime before 8 June so Iā€™ll just see if starting from scratch solves my problem Thanks Cathy !,

When you first connected the app it should have been updated (you should have gotten a popup).

The bad logging thing, I think, was a software bug but didnā€™t affect performance.

Your wife is great! Mine just bought me a Nintendo Switch, which works because my 6 year old canā€™t fly drones with me yet.

Also, she shoulda waited till the Journey was released lol Of course that could still be a few monthsā€¦but hopefully not.

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Tower worked this morning! Full Auto mission. Parameters as shown above. .

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Thatā€™s good to hear , I wonder did Tower app get an update ?

no it hasnā€™t been updated in over 6 months i think. dev doesnā€™t work on it anymore. Or dronekit-android which it uses. I made a PR against it trying to fix follow-me, and it is just sitting there.

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If anyone knows the SkyViper folks and they are interested in sending me one I can look to see what is going on with QGC and mission uploads.

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Don I would consider sending you my flight board and sonic , to check out. But I wanted to see if I could transplant those in to a frame with matching props and gear mounts and 8x20 brushed motors , Iā€™ll post a pic of quad Iā€™m talking about got it in 2014 for around $50 cdn.adding photo https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157253320004937&set=pob.549259936&type=3
One in upper right corner . Is a good stable flyer , motors getting weak though and range is sketchy beyond 50 m

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New viper has arrived . I now have 4 1200mah batteries whoohoo! Now to see if I can get a mission to work

Auto-mode missions are working pretty well in Tower. Parameters are as posted above. Flight distances from Home far exceed the range of manual flights. Still experimenting with Actions (camera trigger etc.) but it flies and the Tx camera/video buttons work, so thatā€™s a start. Next, back to experimenting in Qā€¦

Update , I was able to get Tower on Android conected to Skyviper at last . Seems what I was doing wrong was turning on the controller /tx . That must be off . Not sure why that is but it works.
Also new viper arrived had a bad pinion on one motor looks like a quality con troll issue teeth never got formed on part when molded or milled how ever they make them little nylon gears . Thankfully good pinions on my broken frame so shaped oout.

@OlivierB Iā€™ve started testing with the SkyViper you sent me. So far I think it may just be that the WiFi link is really noisy which in turn causes the Mission protocol to fail. Still lookingā€¦

Another question: Has anyone gotten the video to play through to QGC?

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Great!
With respect to video I am not sure I ever tried, but seem to remember others have been unsuccessful.

Donlakeflyer I donā€™t believe any one has been able to get video from sonic to either Qground or Tower not sure about any others . Would be nice if it could be done.

Same problems here. Video is working (rtsp://192.168.99.1:554/media/stream2)

Finally had time to dig into this. If you want the gory details look here: https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/pull/6718. Otherwise wait for a new QGC daily build (in an hour or so) and mission upload should be significantly better. Still not 100% foolproof since the SkyViper WiFi is incredibly noisy with huge packet loss. So you still may need to retry once in a while.

Thanks OlivierB for sending my his SkyViper so I could test.

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@DonLakeFlyer , thanks for working on this , I tried down loading Qground daily build first of the week hoping that it might work for me now ,. Unfortunately :disappointed_relieved::pensive: , it seemed to make connection drop repeatedly with in 10 seconds of connecting. .

Correction to above , tried again to connect using Qgc and it worked no issue up loadding even had video stream all though badly mostly grey screen with a video shot 2 or 3 times a sec.
Update it looks like camera on sv only activates if it sees motion . If I pick up frame and move video is clear and steady . Stop and it goes back to grey and funky . If I walk in front of camera it will show me but not back ground . Strange things ,strange thingsā€¦

I get that reply on my iPhone and my Android wonā€™t hook up to it. Any ideas??