I noticed an issue that I didn’t have before I updated Arducopter to 4.6.3.
Current software:
Arducopter 4.6.3
Mission planner 1.3.83
The feature to use Quick tune and the Lua Script seems to be missing when using Mission Planner Full Parameter listing.
The options to launch the script using radio switch is no longer an option.
Is it really missing, or did I do something dumb and failed to open a secondary option.
Thank you
Did you enable scripting? The lua script isn’t loaded by default so you’ll need to install it.
Yes, I enabled the scripting, and the lua script was loaded in the MavlinkFTP , APM/Scripts directory in the FC. I’ve used it before, but now it doesn’t seem to be a functional feature.
What kind of flight controller is it?
Should be APM/scripts - pretty sure the directory is case sensitive.
Yes, Yuri, it is the APM/scripts (I typo’d the earlier responce).
The lua script is the one from the ardupilot/libraries/AP_Scripting/applets/VTOL-quicktune.md from the QuikTune — Copter documentation .
I’ve used it before and it worked, until I upgraded to Copter 4.6.3
As for the FC, They are the following: Cubepilot Orange+, Matek H743, 743Mini, and they all had the feature til the upgrade.
I was working on a couple of new builds and upgraded the Arducopter firmware.
Set SCR_ENABLE,1 and reboot.
Also ensure that the file you downloaded has the extension .lua
QUIK_ENABLE must be set to 1 , but that assumes the script works and has set up the parameters.
Thank you. I will make sure the extension did not change.
[SOLVED] - a stupid oversight
Yes, that was the problem. The file extension did change and was hidden. I have corrected the problem and the QUIK parameter is now avaliable. It was a silly mistake on the file settings on a workstation I was using.
Thank you
Windows Explorer hiding known extensions should be illegal - it’s the first thing I change when touching Windows
Yes, I did unhide extensions, but it’s possible that it switched back after upgrading to Win11 25H2. It showed the file as .lua but it was actually .lua.txt.
That is why a fresh set of eyes help here. I dismissed the obvious, shame on me, LOL. But thank you all for the help and understanding.
For those who may stumble upon this topic, the root cause is almost always the web browser adding a superfluous .txt extension to downloaded plaintext files, even if they have valid extensions already (like .lua). To further muddy the waters, Windows hides the .txt extension by default, masking the fact that the downloaded filename was altered by the web browser.