First post here. I’m a little stuck. I’m running a Pixhawk 2.1 with Copter 3.5.5.
I’m trying to get precision landing to work with the IR-LOCK Marc One Beacon. The rangefinder I am using is Lightware’s LW20/B. Here’s the issue: I’m unable to get a “sonarrange” value (other than zero) via MavLink.
I am connecting via I2C. I haven’t changed the default hexadecimal address of 0x66 (102 decimal). I thought for sure it was the rangefinder not sending any data (or using the wrong protocol). However, I connected the rangefinder to my PC via a Devantech USB to I2C adapter. When I brought up the Lightware terminal on my PC I was able to connect with the rangefinder and get accurate distance measurements. I was also able to do a few other commands, everything seemed to work alright.
When I hook the rangefinder up to my pixhawk via the I2C port, I don’t seem to be getting anything.
I have changed several parameters as follows:
RNGFND_TYPE = 7 (LightWareI2C)
RNGFND_ADDR = 102
RNGFND_SCALING = 1
RNGFND_MIN_CM = 5
RNGFND_MAX_CM = 2500
RNGFND_GNDCLEAR = 6
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much
I feel like I must be missing something pretty basic here. I uploaded the latest firmware on my pixhawk: 3.6.6 (I guess I need to move this topic to a new thread). Still nothing on the “Sonarrange” field. I’m really running out of ideas though. I’d probably assume a dead lidar except that I can get accurate readings using the Lightware terminal via the I2C protocol.
Is there a basic parameter I need to update in order to “enable” the “sonarrange” and “sonarvoltage” fields?
Hi there!
I am having some problems connecting the MB1043 rangefinder to my PX4 controller, either directly or via a PX4Flow (optical flow), as the PX4 does not detect the sonar, so I always get 0 values for the sonarrange and sonarvoltage parameters .
The connection is made via the GPS1 port, as it appears that the I2C 2 port has a malfunction, and I can read the parameters provided by the PX4Flow, but not those of the sonar. Alsom I tried a lot of different combinations for the ports, but this is the only one that works for the Optical Flow.
In Mission Planner, I can’t directly activate either PX4Flow or the sonar (these options are grayed out) so I had to activate PX4Flow through the parameters tree. However, for sonar, I am unable to do so. I have already tried to change the various respective parameters, namely Addres and Type, but I cannot get the Flight Controller to detect the Sonar.
