TX16S w/EdgeTX
TBS Nano SE (steady green LED)
Matek F765 w/Ardurover V4.6.1
Mission Planner 1.3.82
Please help.
Have read Ardupilot and mission planner installation and setups. Been trying to get this working for 3 days, no joy. Have read all relevant topics on forum based on search, many have had this issue , nobody appears to have posted replies that may indicate how they solved the problem
I am unable to get green bars on Radio Calibration, followed by msg= “bad Channel 1 Input, canceling”
Parameter file is attached. Let me know if you need more information. rover.param (18.9 KB)
Eventual rover on wheelchair base.
In Mission Planner, HGLRC m100 GPS working fine.
TBS Nano wired:
Gnd - G
+V - 4v5
Ch 1 - Rx6
Ch 2 - Tx6
I realize the steady green LED on the Nano only signifies it is getting ground and power from the F765 and that it is bound to the TX16S. Beyond that I do not know if the TX16S is outputting stick commands to the Rx or if the F765 is seeing the Rx signals. I have followed both the TX setup instructions for New Model and the instructions for setting up the TBS components. All parts are updated.
Also, although I have Ardurover installed, in Mission Planner/SETUP/Mandatory Hardware/Frame Type the only Frame Type options are “Unidentified” and various forms of drone aircraft configurations, no land based vehicles? Which should I choose?
Not having anything to go on (no feedback), I went back to square one, erasing and reinstalling from Zadig then STM32CubeProgrammer many iterations, same results. My Super Duper i9 based Win11 workstation that I keep up to date, where before it was kinda sorta working in Mission Planner it had problems, then recently, it would not recognize the USB, tried several cables, tried utilities to wipe and reinstall USB ports, got as far as to get Hardware Manager to at least acknowledge the MatekF765 but could do nothing with it. Reinstalled Mission planner several times. Read everything relevant on Ardupilot, Mission Planner, and Matek. Watched a lot of YouTube “Experts”. No Joy. So where it had worked somewhat before as I messed with it more it stopped working at all giving the impression I’d done it in.
Then I read about one poor guy with roughly same sort of issues, I was not sure if he was threatening to put the 38 to the flight controller or himself, I know exactly how he felt, but then just for the hell of it out of total frustration he bought a $99 notebook, put it all on there and suddenly rainbows and sunshine it all worked.
So before accepting that I had possibly bricked a brand new Matek F765, I mean no ego here - assume I missed something somewhere, I put everything on an old laptop I rarely use for utility tasks and EVERYTHING WORKS! Thank you self
I posted this reply because after reading every similar dead ended request for help on this subject spanning many years yet no answers, I swore that I’d post my findings, even if it was caused by me doing something really dumb. So take heart, the instructions work, the software works, your hardware is probably still alive but your shiny new PC may not be your best friend.
So I cleaned out the old drivers and installed the new ones, so far i9 tower is happy with USB now -BUT- I still do not have a working SETUP/RADIO CALIBRATION (no green bars) and BTW just for grins when I got it working in the past it was with Arduplane not Ardurover. I don’t want to go back to Arduplane, it is not what I am trying to build. The telemetry is working fine through the USB connection.
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