Hi everyone
I’ve been using Ardupilot for quite a while and always had a great experience. However recently I bought a T-Motor H7 Mini FC to learn more advanced features like LUA scripting.
I flashed the firmware with STM32 Cube programmer and successfully connected to the board using mission planner. Unfortunately just after that I got the Config Error: INS: unable to initialise driver communicate.
That was the first time I ever got such a message. The FC is brand new, it’s the BMI270 version and it worked perfectly fine in Betaflight. I tried flashing different versions from 4.4 to 4.6 and it’s always the same error. Any ideas how to fix it?
Update the bootloader while connected via Mission Planner. Not sure that will fix it, but it can’t hurt.
@andyp1per did the initial port for this board. He may have some insight.
Seeing as it has no SD card and only black box flash, scripting will be a challenge. I don’t think we support scripting yet on boards of this design (without embedding the script in a custom firmware build…which is painful).
Thanks for the answer, I just tried updating the bootloader and the error still persists.
Does it really not support scripting? I think I was able to build the software for this board with LUA and obstacle avoidance enabled. That’s why I switched from F4 to H7 in the first place. I want to show my audience some of the more advanced Ardupilot features that were simply absent in F405 FCs due to memory size limitations.
No, nothing special. But frustrating for a user to buy it, load the correct firmware, and immediately run into an issue that looks like the wrong firmware is loaded.
@Basement_Creations Did you flash arducopter_with_bl.hex, exactly the binary from this link? Maybe try again to avoid potential checksum issues caused by network transmission.
Just use binary from official website(Currently, it’s 4.5.5) first to make sure the hardware is good to go.
It’s a while since I did this port. The most likely explanation is that they have changed the IMU. Do the docs indicate what the IMU is? It is supposed to be dual IMU - BMI270 and ICM42688
From at least one retailer and T-motors own online store you can order it with either a Bmi270 or a ICM42688. Not both. Unless they have a 3rd version.
If you need a 20x20 board and standard Lua scripting buy a Matek H743 Mini.
BMI270 is connected to SPIx(most probably SPI1) not SPI4. That might be a code maintain issue for T-Motor H7 Mini, it should be consistent with repo (connecting to SPI4 as previously R&D planned)
